eprintid: 10116490 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/11/64/90 datestamp: 2020-12-07 14:50:44 lastmod: 2021-09-21 22:12:27 status_changed: 2020-12-07 14:50:44 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Dickson, R creators_name: Baker, M creators_name: Bonnin, N creators_name: Shoch, D creators_name: Rifkin, B creators_name: Stewart, FA creators_name: Piel, AK title: Combining deforestation and species distribution models to improve measures of chimpanzee conservation impacts of redd: A case study from ntakata mountains, western tanzania ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F22 keywords: East Africa; great ape; co-benefits; conservation; carbon project note: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited abstract: Projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) are designed to reduce carbon emissions through avoided deforestation and degradation, and in many cases, to produce additional community and biodiversity conservation co-benefits. While these co-benefits can be significant, quantifying conservation impacts has been challenging, and most projects use simple species presence to demonstrate positive biodiversity impact. Some of the same tools applied in the quantification of climate mitigation benefits have relevance and potential application to estimating co-benefits for biodiversity conservation. In western Tanzania, most chimpanzees live outside of national park boundaries, and thus face threats from human activity, including competition for suitable habitat. Through a case study of the Ntakata Mountains REDD project in western Tanzania, we demonstrate a combined application of deforestation modelling with species distribution models to assess forest conservation benefits in terms of avoided carbon emissions and improved chimpanzee habitat. The application of such tools is a novel approach that we argue permits the better design of future REDD projects for biodiversity co-benefits. This approach also enables project developers to produce the more manageable, accurate and cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification of project impacts that are critical to verification under carbon standards. date: 2020-11-01 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11111195 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1832944 doi: 10.3390/f11111195 lyricists_name: Piel, Alexander lyricists_id: AKPIE75 actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie actors_id: MDDEW97 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Forests volume: 11 number: 11 article_number: 1195 citation: Dickson, R; Baker, M; Bonnin, N; Shoch, D; Rifkin, B; Stewart, FA; Piel, AK; (2020) Combining deforestation and species distribution models to improve measures of chimpanzee conservation impacts of redd: A case study from ntakata mountains, western tanzania. Forests , 11 (11) , Article 1195. 10.3390/f11111195 <https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111195>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116490/3/Piel_forests-11-01195.pdf