Wilson Kerrie A, Underwood Emma C, Morrison Scott A, Klausmeyer Kirk R, Murdoch William W, Reyers Belinda, Wardell-Johnson Grant, Marquet Pablo A, Rundel Phil W, McBride Marissa F, Pressey Robert L, Bode Michael, Hoekstra Jon M, Andelman Sandy, Looker Michael, Rondinini Carlo, Kareiva Peter, Shaw M Rebecca, Possingham Hugh P
The Ecology Centre, School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
PLoS Biol. 2007 Sep;5(9):e223. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050223.
Conservation priority-setting schemes have not yet combined geographic priorities with a framework that can guide the allocation of funds among alternate conservation actions that address specific threats. We develop such a framework, and apply it to 17 of the world's 39 Mediterranean ecoregions. This framework offers an improvement over approaches that only focus on land purchase or species richness and do not account for threats. We discover that one could protect many more plant and vertebrate species by investing in a sequence of conservation actions targeted towards specific threats, such as invasive species control, land acquisition, and off-reserve management, than by relying solely on acquiring land for protected areas. Applying this new framework will ensure investment in actions that provide the most cost-effective outcomes for biodiversity conservation. This will help to minimise the misallocation of scarce conservation resources.
保护优先级设定方案尚未将地理优先级与一个框架相结合，该框架能够指导在应对特定威胁的不同保护行动之间分配资金。我们开发了这样一个框架，并将其应用于世界上39个地中海生态区中的17个。该框架相较于那些仅关注土地购置或物种丰富度而不考虑威胁的方法有了改进。我们发现，通过投资一系列针对特定威胁的保护行动，如控制入侵物种、土地购置和保护区外管理，比仅依靠获取土地用于保护区能保护更多的植物和脊椎动物物种。应用这个新框架将确保对那些为生物多样性保护提供最具成本效益结果的行动进行投资。这将有助于尽量减少稀缺保护资源的分配不当。
