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Prioritizing global marine mammal habitats using density maps in place of range maps
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dc.contributor.author | Williams, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Grand, Joanna | |
dc.contributor.author | Hooker, Sascha Kate | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckland, Stephen Terrence | |
dc.contributor.author | Reeves, Randall R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo | |
dc.contributor.author | Sandilands, Doug | |
dc.contributor.author | Kaschner, Kristin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-30T08:01:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-30T08:01:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-03-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Williams , R , Grand , J , Hooker , S K , Buckland , S T , Reeves , R R , Rojas-Bracho , L , Sandilands , D & Kaschner , K 2014 , ' Prioritizing global marine mammal habitats using density maps in place of range maps ' , Ecography , vol. 37 , no. 3 , pp. 212-220 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00479.x | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0906-7590 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 72032118 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 24b1276c-7f76-493f-afb1-bc9c19d85662 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84896725352 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-7518-3548/work/47136146 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000332149100003 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-9939-709X/work/73701049 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/4068 | |
dc.description | RW collected the BC data with Raincoast Conservation Foundation, and was supported by a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme (proposal no. 253407 (call reference: FP7‐PEOPLE‐2009‐IIF)) during the analysis stage. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Despite lessons from terrestrial systems, conservation efforts in marine systems continue to focus on identifying priority sites for protection based on high species richness inferred from range maps. Range maps oversimplify spatial variability in animal distributions by assuming uniform distribution within range and de facto giving equal weight to critical and marginal habitats. We used Marxan ver. 2.43 to compare species richness-based systematic reserve network solutions using information about marine mammal range and relative abundance. At a global scale, reserve network solutions were strongly sensitive to model inputs and assumptions. Solutions based on different input data overlapped by a third at most, with agreement as low as 10% in some cases. At a regional scale, species richness was inversely related to density, such that species richness hotspots excluded highest-density areas for all species. Based on these findings, we caution that species-richness estimates derived from range maps and used as input in conservation planning exercises may inadvertently lead to protection of largely marginal habitat. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ecography | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2013 The Authors. Ecography published by Nordic Society Oikos. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.subject | Marine systems | en |
dc.subject | Range maps | en |
dc.subject | Density maps | en |
dc.subject | Marine mammal habitats | en |
dc.subject | Species richness | en |
dc.subject | Conservation | en |
dc.subject | QL Zoology | en |
dc.subject | QA Mathematics | en |
dc.subject | BDY | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject | SDG 15 - Life on Land | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QL | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QA | en |
dc.title | Prioritizing global marine mammal habitats using density maps in place of range maps | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Commission | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statistics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00479.x | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 253407 | en |
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