Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, ES-08028, Barcelona, Spain.
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, 70040-020 Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil.
Sci Adv. 2017 Jun 21;3(6):e1602929. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602929. eCollection 2017 Jun.
Habitat loss is the most important threat to species survival, and the efficient selection of priority areas is fundamental for good systematic conservation planning. Using amphibians as a conservation target, we designed an innovative assessment strategy, showing that prioritization models focused on functional, phylogenetic, and taxonomic diversity can include cost-effectiveness-based assessments of land values. We report new key conservation sites within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hot spot, revealing a congruence of ecological and evolutionary patterns. We suggest payment for ecosystem services through environmental set-asides on private land, establishing potential trade-offs for ecological and evolutionary processes. Our findings introduce additional effective area-based conservation parameters that set new priorities for biodiversity assessment in the Atlantic Forest, validating the usefulness of a novel approach to cost-effectiveness-based assessments of conservation value for other species-rich regions.
生境丧失是物种生存的最重要威胁，而优先区域的有效选择对于良好的系统保护规划至关重要。我们以两栖动物为保护目标，设计了一种创新的评估策略，表明侧重于功能、系统发育和分类多样性的优先排序模型可以包括基于成本效益的土地价值评估。我们在巴西大西洋森林热点地区报告了新的关键保护地点，揭示了生态和进化模式的一致性。我们建议通过在私人土地上设立环境保留区来支付生态系统服务费用，从而为生态和进化过程建立潜在的权衡。我们的研究结果引入了额外的基于有效面积的保护参数，为大西洋森林的生物多样性评估设定了新的优先事项，为其他物种丰富地区的基于成本效益的保护价值评估的新方法提供了有效性验证。
