Costelloe, B;
Milner-Gulland, EJ;
Nicholson, E;
Mcrae, L;
Collen, B;
Craigie, ID;
Rondinini, C;
(2016)
Global Biodiversity Indicators Reflect the Modeled Impacts of Protected Area Policy Change.
Conservation Letters
, 9
(1)
pp. 14-20.
10.1111/conl.12163.
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Abstract
Global biodiversity indicators can be used to measure the status and trends of biodiversity relating to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) targets. Whether such indicators can support decision makers by distinguishing among policy options remains poorly evaluated. We tested the ability of two CBD indicators, the Living Planet Index and the Red List Index, to reflect projected changes in mammalian populations in sub-Saharan Africa in response to potential policies related to CBD targets for protected areas (PAs). We compared policy scenarios to expand the PA network, improve management effectiveness of the existing network, and combinations of the two, against business as usual. Both indicators showed that more effective management would provide greater benefits to biodiversity than expanding PAs alone. The indicators were able to communicate outcomes of modeled scenarios in a simple quantitative manner, but behaved differently. This work highlights both the considerable potential of indicators in supporting decisions, and the need to understand how indicators will respond as biodiversity changes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Global Biodiversity Indicators Reflect the Modeled Impacts of Protected Area Policy Change |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/conl.12163 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12163 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright and Photocopying: ©2015 The Authors Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. 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. |
| Keywords: | Biodiversity indicators;convention on biological diversity;Living Planet Index;protected areas;population decline;Red List Index |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1467675 |
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