Effect of primate protection on threatened and endemic vertebrates, plants, ecosystem services, and future climate refugia

Conservation Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 28, 2025

Abstract Primates, 69% of which are threatened with extinction, the third most specious order mammals. We used primates as model taxa to examine umbrella effects on ecosystem services and protection other vertebrates seed plants in Yunnan Province, China. identified areas conservation priority for 16 primate species determined endemic terrestrial would be protected through a program targeting conservation. Areas high richness were spatially correlated distribution 601 4010 plants. Primate was positively carbon sequestration enhanced water soil coincided future climate refugia. If 30% Yunnan's naturally forested regions designated areas, then 52.3% province's average annual sequestration, 51.7% its resources, 54.1% 30–33% climate‐stable protected. Protecting uniquely contributes maintaining biodiversity that promote stability. Although we focused single mammalian region, our approach evaluation has broad applicability can help achieve multiple targets Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Language: Английский

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What is a unit of nature? Measurement challenges in the emerging biodiversity credit market

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 291(2036)

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss requires business and financial sectors to disclose reduce their impacts help fund nature recovery. This has sparked interest in developing generalizable, standardized measurements biodiversity-essentially a 'unit nature'. We examine how such units are defined rapidly growing voluntary credits market present framework exploring is quantified, delivery positive outcomes detected attributed investment number issued adjusted account for uncertainties. demonstrate that there deep uncertainties throughout process question if benefits credits, other efforts abstract single unit, outweigh harms. Credits can only be they used with unprecedentedly strict regulation ensures businesses mostly avoid negative purchased quantify contributions rather than as direct offsets. While may role markets attracting conservation funding, will ever part solution, especially many aspects cannot reduced unit.

Language: Английский

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Biotic homogenization and functional restructuring of bee communities in northern France: implications for conservation priorities

Biodiversity and Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Language: Английский

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Assessing connectivity contributions of urban green spaces for avian species conservation: Insights of a surrogate approach in Nanjing

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 128687 - 128687

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Evaluating the efficacy of an integrated law enforcement approach to safeguarding Sumatran tigers and their prey

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 378, P. 124759 - 124759

Published: March 3, 2025

Language: Английский

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Development Priority Policies for Impact Control and the Recovery of Natural Tourism in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(8), P. 3497 - 3497

Published: April 14, 2025

North Sumatra has abundant natural resources and potential as a tourist destination for the wider community. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted tourism, including in Sumatra, where several attractions have closed their businesses. This study aims to formulate policy priorities impact control restoration of tourism sites Sumatra. We analyzed decline visitors during pandemic, on number visitors, types attraction facilities that suffered most damage, influence facility type visits, aspects decreased should be prioritized improvement. A descriptive statistical analysis, difference tests, multiple linear regression analyses were used. found factors influenced visitor changes before well afterwards. Our results show an important development priority is attractions. also propose recommendations policies aimed at post-COVID-19

Language: Английский

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Assessing spatial variability and efficacy of surrogate species at an ecosystem scale

Conservation Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 22, 2025

Abstract Preserving biodiversity is a central goal of conservation, but, in practice, monitoring often involves assessing population trends for one or handful species that are presumed proxies biodiversity. Despite the popularity surrogate strategies, links between and rarely tested, especially across broad spatial scales at which they applied. We quantitatively evaluated prominent strategy 25,000 km 2 California's Sierra Nevada, an ecosystem undergoing substantial forest loss due to changing fire regimes climate. used passive acoustic multispecies occupancy models quantify pairwise co‐occurrence among 6 indicator much avian community (63 species). found 95% sampled had positive association with least latitude played important role shaping many species. Our work provides test long‐standing conservation tool, suggests well‐chosen suite can represent occurrence patterns large portion rest community, demonstrates importance explicitly considering scale over effective.

Language: Английский

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Prioritizing wildlife conservation along habitat gradients in Sumatra

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 299, P. 110795 - 110795

Published: Sept. 30, 2024

Language: Английский

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