scholarly journals Planning priority conservation areas for biodiversity under climate change in topographically complex areas: A case study in Sichuan province, China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0243425
Author(s):  
Yafeng Lu ◽  
Pei Xu ◽  
Qinwen Li ◽  
Yukuan Wang ◽  
Cheng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Sichuan Province ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Topographic Complexity ◽  
Maxent Model ◽  
Conservation Targets ◽  
Conservation Costs ◽  
Adaptation Index

Identifying priority conservation areas plays a significant role in conserving biodiversity under climate change, but uncertainties create challenges for conservation planning. To reduce uncertainties in the conservation planning framework, we developed an adaptation index to assess the effect of topographic complexity on species adaptation to climate change, which was incorporated into the conservation framework as conservation costs. Meanwhile, the species distributions were predicted by the Maxent model, and the priority conservation areas were optimized during different periods in Sichuan province by the Marxan model. Our results showed that the effect of topographic complexity was critical for species adaptation, but the adaptation index decreased with the temperature increase. Based on the conservation targets and costs, the distributions of priority conservation areas were mainly concentrated in mountainous areas around the Sichuan Basin where may be robust to the adaptation to climate change. In the future, the distributions of priority conservation areas had no evident changes, accounting for about 26% and 28% of the study areas. Moreover, most species habitats could be conserved in terms of conservation targets in these priority conservation areas. Therefore, our approach could achieve biodiversity conservation goals and be highly practical. More importantly, quantifying the effect of topography also is critical for options for planning conservation areas in response to climate change.

scholarly journals The desain of mangrove conservation area to increase resilience of Cimanuk Delta, Indramayu, West Java to climate change

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
HADIANA HADIANA ◽  
AGUSTINUS M. SAMOSIR
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
West Java ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Core Zone ◽  
Alternative Plan ◽  
Management Effort ◽  
Mangrove Conservation

Hadiana, Samosir AM. 2015. The design of mangrove conservation area to increase resilience of Cimanuk Delta, Indramayu, West Java to climate change. Bonorowo Wetlands 5: 63-76. Indramayu is one of coastal area in North Java many encountered caused impact by climate change, this seemed from storm intensity, abrasion and flood that happened more frequent. One of the management effort to reduce these impacts is the conservation. Conservation planning integrated into one form designation of conservation areas. This research aim was to determine the variable of coastal resources that are related to protection and gave the alternative plan of conservation area as an effort to brought back Cimanuk Delta condition toward climate change. The plan in scenario one generated core zone about 97,27 km2, limited utilization zone 75,35 km², sustainable fisheries zone 149,30 km², and others zone 116,07 km² of total aquatic study in Coastal of Indramayu (Delta Cimanuk) that have a total area about 437,9890 km². The plan in scenario two generated core zone about 102,07 km², and the plan in scenario three generated core zone about 120,45 km. Overall, the location that always selected as a conservation area located around Cemara, Pabean Ilir, Cantigi and Pagirikan Coastal area.

scholarly journals Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Critchlow ◽  
Charles A. Cunningham ◽  
Humphrey Q. P. Crick ◽  
Nicholas A. Macgregor ◽  
Michael D. Morecroft ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Species Conservation ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Indicator Taxa ◽  
Network Effectiveness ◽  
Spatial Conservation Planning ◽  
Richness Patterns

AbstractProtected area (PA) networks have in the past been constructed to include all major habitats, but have often been developed through consideration of only a few indicator taxa or across restricted areas, and rarely account for global climate change. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) aims to improve the efficiency of biodiversity conservation, particularly when addressing internationally agreed protection targets. We apply SCP in Great Britain (GB) using the widest taxonomic coverage to date (4,447 species), compare spatial prioritisation results across 18 taxa and use projected future (2080) distributions to assess the potential impact of climate change on PA network effectiveness. Priority conservation areas were similar among multiple taxa, despite considerable differences in spatial species richness patterns; thus systematic prioritisations based on indicator taxa for which data are widely available are still useful for conservation planning. We found that increasing the number of protected hectads by 2% (to reach the 2020 17% Aichi target) could have a disproportionate positive effect on species protected, with an increase of up to 17% for some taxa. The PA network in GB currently under-represents priority species but, if the potential future distributions under climate change are realised, the proportion of species distributions protected by the current PA network may increase, because many PAs are in northern and higher altitude areas. Optimal locations for new PAs are particularly concentrated in southern and upland areas of GB. This application of SCP shows how a small addition to an existing PA network could have disproportionate benefits for species conservation.

scholarly journals Developing indicators to assess climate change adaptable in Ba ria-Vung tau province and proposed improve solutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-121
Author(s):  
Dung Minh Ho ◽  
Nhan Ai Hoang ◽  
Ly Dinh Che
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Rice Variety ◽  
Average Level ◽  
Adaptation Period ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
Assess Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Index

With the target of research is assess and classify the ability to adapt climate change for districts of Ba Ria-VungTau (BR-VT) province and proposed improve solutions, the authors used MCA, Entropy weighting and SAW methods to evaluate and achieve the results as follows: Developing indicators to assess climate change adaptable in BR-VT province includes 12 topics and 24 indicators corresponding to the provincial level. And adaptation indicators for the districts, including 9 topics and 16 indicators. The indicators belongs to two main groups to assess the vulnerability and adaptable to climate change; The results were evaluated by the provincial level adaptation period 2009 - 2012 shows that adaptation index has increased over the years and reached an average level of adaptation (52 points) for climate change and fluctuation of adaptation index is from 50.97 to 52.96; The adaptation index of the districts is low. Ba Ria city has the highest adaptation index 57.61 points – at average level, follows by Vung Tau city. The lowest is 49.29 points in Chau Duc district. Besides, authors proposing solutions to improve adaptation to climate change as the solution to landslide coast control, land erosion, maintain and development of coastal mangrove forests of the province and propose rice variety can adapt to saline aluma and get yield stable.

scholarly journals Landscape Conservation Planning to Sustain Ecosystem Services under Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Pin Lin ◽  
Chi-Ju Chen ◽  
Wan-Yu Lien ◽  
Wen-Hao Chang ◽  
Joy Petway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Stability And Resilience

Sustainable conservation aims to ensure the sustained conservation of landscape multi-functionality which in turn requires ensuring ecosystem service (ES) and habitat quality (HQ) sustainability with inclusive landscape-scale conservation planning. This study proposes a landscape conservation planning (LCP) framework for landscape-scale ES-HQ conservation and sustainability. Spatially explicit hotspots for five ESs and HQs are identified via InVEST and LISA software. Spatiotemporal changes in ES-HQ hotspots, in terms of stability and resilience, are delineated. The Zonation technique is applied to prioritize areas for conservation based on ES-HQ hotspot stability and resilience maps. High priority conservation areas are identified and are used as reserve area inputs for land use modeling with CLUE-S software to simulate future land use change under climate change scenarios. This study reports that varied rainfall and climate are major driving factors of ES-HQ sustainability disturbance in the study area. Furthermore, our proposed conservation Strategy 2 demonstrates that a larger extent of landscape multi-functionality can be sustained when the existing conservation area includes the total area of identified ES-HQ resilient hotspots. This study effectively identifies the stability and resiliency of ES-HQ hotspot areas affected by disturbances for high priority landscape conservation requirements to ensure ES-HQ sustainability and landscape multi-functionality in the study area.

scholarly journals Excavation topography modelling in the context of adaptation to climate change on the example of “Brzeziny” Natural Aggregate Mine

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00136
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pawełczyk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Opencast Mining ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Adaptation Index

One of the key activities of adapting to climate change is the revitalization of post–industrial areas. A special case of such areas are post-mining areas in the mining of rock raw materials, which as a result of opencast mining have a completely different characteristics from the surrounding landscape. Therefore, there is a great need to undertake actions aimed at adapting post–mining areas to climate change. However, to properly design these activities, a method should be defined to assess the level of adaptation of post-mining land to climate change. For its needs, the Topographic Adaptation Index was developed and applied in this paper. In order to determine the level of adaptation to climate change in the studied mine, three models were created in which the course of the Topographic Adaptation Index was analysed depending on the variable spatial conditions.

scholarly journals Planning priority conservation areas under climate change for six plant species with extremely small populations in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Qu ◽  
Chun-Jing Wang ◽  
Zhi-Xiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Ex Situ Conservation ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Small Populations ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Measures

The concept of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations (PSESP) has been employed to guide conservation of threatened plant species in China. Climate change has a high potential to threaten PSESP. As a result, it is necessary to integrate climate change effects on PSESP into conservation planning in China. Here, ecological niche modelling is used to project current and future habitat distributions of six PSESP in China under climate change scenarios and conservation planning software is applied to identify priority conservation areas (PCAs) for these PSESP based on habitat distributions. These results were used to provide proposals for in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures directed at PSESP. It was found that annual precipitation was important for habitat distributions for all six PSESP (with the percentage contribution to habitat distributions ranging from 18.1 % to 74.9 %) and non-climatic variables including soil and altitude have a large effect on habitat suitability of PSESP. Large quantities of PCAs occurred within some provincial regions for these six PSESP (e.g. Sichuan and Jilin for the PSESP Cathaya argyrophylla, Taxus cuspidata, Annamocarya sinensis and Madhuca pasquieri), indicating that these are likely to be appropriate areas for in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures directed at these PSESP. Those nature reserves with large quantities of PCAs were identified as promising sites for in-situ conservation measures of PSESP; such reserves include Yangzie and Dongdongtinghu for C. argyrophylla, Songhuajiangsanhu and Changbaishan for T. cuspidata and Shiwandashanshuiyuanlian for Tsoongiodendron odorum. These results suggest that existing seed banks and botanical gardens occurring within identified PCAs should allocate more resources and space to ex-situ conservation of PSESP. In addition, there should be additional botanical gardens established for ex-situ conservation of PSESP in PCAs outside existing nature reserves. To address the risk of negative effects of climate change on PSESP, it is necessary to integrate in-situ and ex-situ conservation as well as climate change monitoring in PSESP conservation planning.

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