scholarly journals Quantifying the National Significance of Local Areas for Regional Conservation Planning: North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures

Land ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Belote ◽  
G. Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
National Significance ◽  
Regional Conservation Planning ◽  
Regional Conservation

scholarly journals Quantifying the National Significance of Local Areas for Regional Conservation Planning: North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Travis Belote ◽  
G. Hugh Irwin
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Ecological Integrity ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
Roadless Areas ◽  
National Significance ◽  
Regional Conservation Planning ◽  
Regional Conservation

Conservation scientists recognize that additional protected areas are needed to maintain biological diversity and ecological processes. As regional conservation planners embark on recommending additional areas for protection in formal conservation reserves, it is important to evaluate candidate lands for their role in building a resilient protected areas system of the future. Here, we evaluate North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures with respect to their (i) ecological integrity, (ii) role in connecting existing core protected areas, (iii) potential to diversify the ecosystem representation of reserves, and (iv) role in maintaining hotspots of biologically-rich areas not well protected. Mountain Treasures represent a citizen inventory of roadless areas and serve as candidates for elevated levels of conservation protection on U.S. federal lands. We compared Mountain Treasures to other candidate lands throughout the country to evaluate their potential national significance. While the Mountain Treasures tended to be more impacted by human modifications than other roadless areas, they are as important as other roadless areas with respect to their role in connecting existing protected areas and diversifying representation of ecosystems in conservation reserves. However, Mountain Treasures tended to have a much higher biodiversity priority index than other roadless areas leading to an overall higher composite score compared to other roadless areas. Our analysis serves as an example of how using broad-scale datasets can help conservation planners assess the national significance of local areas.

scholarly journals Quantifying the National Significance of Local Areas for Regional Conservation Planning: North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Belote ◽  
G. Hugh Irwin
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Ecological Integrity ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
Roadless Areas ◽  
National Significance ◽  
Regional Conservation Planning ◽  
Regional Conservation

Conservation scientists recognize that additional protected areas are needed to maintain biological diversity and ecological processes. As regional conservation planners embark on recommending additional areas for protection in formal conservation reserves, it is important to evaluate candidate lands for their role in building a resilient protected areas system of the future. Here, we evaluate North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures with respect to their (i) ecological integrity, (ii) role in connecting existing core protected areas, (iii) potential to diversify the ecosystem representation of reserves, and (iv) role in maintaining hotspots of biologically-rich areas not well protected. Mountain Treasures represent a citizen inventory of roadless areas and serve as candidates for elevated levels of conservation protection on U.S. federal lands. We compared Mountain Treasures to other candidate lands throughout the country to evaluate their potential national significance. While the Mountain Treasures tended to be more impacted by human modifications than other roadless areas, they are as important as other roadless areas with respect to their role in connecting existing protected areas and diversifying representation of ecosystems in conservation reserves. However, Mountain Treasures tended to have a much higher biodiversity priority index than other roadless areas leading to an overall higher composite score compared to other roadless areas. Our analysis serves as an example of how using broad-scale datasets can help conservation planners assess the national significance of local areas.

scholarly journals Optimizing regional conservation planning for forest birds

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 726-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Beaudry ◽  
Anna M. Pidgeon ◽  
David J. Mladenoff ◽  
Robert W. Howe ◽  
Gerald A. Bartelt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Regional Conservation Planning ◽  
Regional Conservation

Exploring spatial patterns of vulnerability for diverse biodiversity descriptors in regional conservation planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruppert Vimal ◽  
Pascal Pluvinet ◽  
Céline Sacca ◽  
Pierre-Olivier Mazagol ◽  
Bernard Etlicher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Regional Conservation Planning ◽  
Regional Conservation
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