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    Conserving biodiversity efficiently: What to Do, Where, and When

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    Authors
    Wilson, K.A.
    Underwood, E.C.
    Morrison, S.A.
    Klausmeyer, K.R.
    Murdoch, W.W.
    Reyers, B.
    Wardell-Johnson, Grant
    Parquet, P.
    Rundel, P.
    McBride, M.
    Pressey, R.
    Bode, M.
    Hoekstra, J.
    Andelman, S.
    Looker, M.
    Rodinini, C.
    Kareiva, P.
    Shaw, M.
    Possingham, H.
    Date
    2007
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Wilson, KA and Underwood, EC and Morrison, SA and Klausmeyer, KR and Murdoch, WW and Reyers, B and Wardell-Johnson, G et al. 2007. Conserving biodiversity efficiently: What to Do, Where, and When. PLoS Biology. 5 (9): pp. 1850-1861.
    Source Title
    PLoS Biology
    DOI
    10.1371/journal.pbio.0050223
    ISSN
    15449173
    Faculty
    School of Agriculture and Environment
    Faculty of Science and Engineering
    Department of Environmental Biology
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    © 2007 Wilson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4804
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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.

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