Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
3 - Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A plea for quantitative targets in biodiversity conservation
- 2 Setting conservation targets: past and present approaches
- 3 Designing studies to develop conservation targets: a review of the challenges
- 4 Testing the efficiency of global-scale conservation planning by using data on Andean amphibians
- 5 Selecting biodiversity indicators to set conservation targets: species, structures, or processes?
- 6 Selecting species to be used as tools in the development of forest conservation targets
- 7 Bridging ecosystem and multiple species approaches for setting conservation targets in managed boreal landscapes
- 8 Thresholds, incidence functions, and species-specific cues: responses of woodland birds to landscape structure in south-eastern Australia
- 9 Landscape thresholds in species occurrence as quantitative targets in forest management: generality in space and time?
- 10 The temporal and spatial challenges of target setting for dynamic habitats: the case of dead wood and saproxylic species in boreal forests
- 11 Opportunities and constraints of using understory plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities
- 12 Setting conservation targets for freshwater ecosystems in forested catchments
- 13 Setting quantitative targets for recovery of threatened species
- 14 Allocation of conservation efforts over the landscape: the TRIAD approach
- 15 Forest landscape modeling as a tool to develop conservation targets
- 16 Setting targets: tradeoffs between ecology and economics
- 17 Setting, implementing, and monitoring targets as a basis for adaptive management: a Canadian forestry case study
- 18 Putting conservation target science to work
- Index
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The emphasis of this volume is on quantitative approaches to conservation. This calls for the consideration of key issues related to study design, statistical analyses, and interpretation of quantitative results. In Chapter 1, we argued that conservation targets should be developed from sound empirical data. Chapter 2 reviewed some of the approaches that have been used to establish numerical targets. In this chapter, I examine challenges posed by conservation target setting from a quantitative perspective. Although setting targets is crucial to achieve conservation goals, this does not mean that it is an easy proposition!
Among the challenges associated with conservation target setting, I will focus on the following:
Determining appropriate benchmarks for conservation target development. Setting targets implies that ecological conditions of reference have been agreed upon by the members of a research team.
Selecting the level(s) of organization for which we will develop targets. Should targets be set for species/populations? Species assemblages? Ecosystems/habitat patches/landscape units? Ecological processes? Ecological stressors?
Choosing appropriate units to express targets. For example, a land manager might prefer to express targets in terms of timber volume that can be harvested annually, whereas ecologists might focus on the area and configuration of habitat that should be present at all times over the landscape to maintain viable populations of focal species. Each unit has advantages and disadvantages. Ideally, a statistical relation can be established between them to meet multiple needs simultaneously.
Selecting the most appropriate study design to guide the development of conservation targets. What are the options and tradeoffs in study design associated with the investigation of species/species assemblage/ ecosystem response to ecological gradients in space and time?
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