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Topical Collection: Biodiversity Protection and Reserves
This collection of articles covers criteria for reserve and protected area selection and establishment, from national parks and biosphere reserves to local nature reserves; effectiveness of Red Lists, Natura 2000 and other major initiatives; identification of hot spots and priority habitats, and IUCN Species Survival Commissions.
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Editors
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David L. Hawksworth CBE
Prof. Hawksworth is a mycologist and lichenologist with a professorship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and also a Scientific Associate of The Natural History Museum in London. He is Editor-in-Chief of Biodiversity and Conservation (Springer) and IMA Fungus (BMC).
Articles (56 in this collection)
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How broad-scale analyses can hide the importance of small areas for conservation
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Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change
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Prospects and challenges coexist in China’s new protected area system
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Climate change is creating a mismatch between protected areas and suitable habitats for frogs and birds in Puerto Rico
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Austral Yungas under future climate and land-use changes scenarios: the importance of protected areas for long-term amphibian conservation
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Gap analysis of the Ramsar site network at 50: over 150 important Mediterranean sites for wintering waterbirds omitted
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The Natura 2000 network and the ranges of threatened species in Greece
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Distribution of avian scavengers inside and outside of protected areas: contrasting patterns between two areas of Spain and South Africa
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Linking the seven forms of rarity to extinction threats and risk factors: an assessment of North American fireflies
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Lichen conservation in North America: a review of current practices and research in Canada and the United States
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How to hierarchise species to determine priorities for conservation action? A critical analysis
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Landscape heterogeneity effects on keystone rodent species: agro-ecological zoning for conservation of open grasslands
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The role of strict nature reserves in protecting genetic diversity in a semiarid vegetation in Brazil
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Rocky outcrops conserve genetic diversity and promote regeneration of a threatened relict tree in a critically endangered ecosystem
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The key role of protection status in safeguarding the ecological functions of some Neotropical mammals
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Spatio-temporal approach for identification of critical conservation areas: a case study with two pine species from a threatened temperate forest in Mexico
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Using IUCN criteria to perform rapid assessments of at-risk taxa
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Twenty years after Jaffré et al. (1998), is the system of protected areas now adequate in New Caledonia?
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Trade-offs between sampling effort and data quality in habitat monitoring
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Biodiversity hotspots are not congruent with conservation areas in the Gulf of California
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Multi-criteria spatial identification of carnivore conservation areas under data scarcity and conflict: a jaguar case study in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
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Integrating phylogenetic and functional biodiversity facets to guide conservation: a case study using anurans in a global biodiversity hotspot
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Habitat suitability models to make conservation decisions based on areas of high species richness and endemism
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Applying species distribution modelling to improving conservation based decisions: a gap analysis of Trinidad and Tobago’s endemic vascular plants
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Evolutionary history of campo rupestre: an approach for conservation of woody plant communities
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Low overlaps between hotspots and complementary sets of vertebrate and plant species in China
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Using abundance and habitat variables to identify high conservation value areas for threatened mammals
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Important Plant Areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation
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Joint ecological, geographical and cultural approach to identify territories of opportunity for large vertebrates conservation in Mexico
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Old concepts, new challenges: adapting landscape-scale conservation to the twenty-first century
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Applying DNA barcoding to conservation practice: a case study of endangered birds and large mammals in China
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
