Extent of Alabama's Terrestrial Nature Reserve System in Representing Ecosystem Diversity: A Coarse-Filter Gap Analysis

Reserve system is a far from equilibrium nonlinear complex systems, and paradigms that make use of linear scientific is difficult to grasp its essence. Based on the basic characteristics of nature reserve systems, utilize ultra-entropy production model, revealing the reserve system evolution, provide a scientific basis to the natural reserve tourism development and the harmony management of the ecological and environmental protection.

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Application of geoecological concept of the alluvial landscape in the creation of nature reserve (case study from Czech Republic)

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201159030123 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 123-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Ivo Machar ◽

Vilém Pechanec

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Nature Reserve ◽

Gap Analysis ◽

River System ◽

Management Plan ◽

Ecological Stability ◽

Management Plans ◽

Succession Series

The geoecological concept of the alluvial landscape describes the variability and consecutive character of alluvial ecotopes and biocenoses, which are interrelated in terms of their homeorhetic development, in their dynamic ecological stability. This article deals with application of this landscape concept in the frame of creation of nature reserve as core zone of the Litovelské Pomoraví Protected Landscape Area (Czech Republic). Complex protection of the whole floodplain ecosystem, which comprised all components of the fluvial succession series of alluvial habitats, was proposed on the basis of determination of geomorphological type of the river system. Analyses of the floodplain forest stands status within the study area were performed using methods that are normally used in the elaboration of management plans of protected areas within forest land on the basis of data from Forest Management Plan. The area of the proposed NNR was created by the overlay of the special map layers using method gap-analysis in the frame of GIS.

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WildCountry

Pacific Conservation Biology ◽

10.1071/pc030221 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 221 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Harry F. Recher

Keyword(s):

Nature Conservation ◽

National Parks ◽

National Park ◽

Nature Reserve ◽

New South ◽

New South Wales ◽

Term Survival ◽

South Wales ◽

Reserve System

REGARDLESS of the merits and values of individual national parks and nature reserves, Australia's conservation reserves do not ensure the survival of the continent's biota. There are many reasons for this. Reserves, even the largest, are too small and vulnerable to broad area disturbance. Consider that, in January 2003, fires burnt more than two-thirds of Kosciuszko National Park, which at 690 000 ha is the largest park in New South Wales and one of the largest in Australia. This shows how even the largest conservation reserves are at risk of catastrophic disturbance. The much smaller Nadgee Nature Reserve (21 000 ha) in southeastern New South Wales has burnt almost in its entirety twice in the 35 years I have worked there. The Nadgee fires and those in Kosciuszko were started by lightning and were the result of prolonged drought, events common across the continent. When small size is coupled with isolation, the long-term survival of populations and the exchange of propagules within the reserve system becomes problematical. Small size and isolation do not leave much scope for plants and animals to adapt to long-term climate change, either through dispersal or by evolution. Even reserving 10 or 15% of land for nature conservation, as recommended by some international conservation agencies, will be inadequate; a target of 30% would have better ecological credentials, but even this could prove inadequate unless the nature conservation reserve system was designed to allow for long-term evolutionary change, which it is not (see Archer 2002; Recher 2002a,b).

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Gap analysis and implications for seasonal management on a local scale

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.5622 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. e5622

Author(s):

Li Yang ◽

Baofeng Zhang ◽

Xinrui Wang ◽

Yueheng Ren ◽

Jinlin Chen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nature Reserve ◽

Ecological Niche Modeling ◽

Gap Analysis ◽

Popular Science ◽

Local Scale ◽

Niche Modeling ◽

Environmental Niche ◽

Priority Areas ◽

Trapping Field ◽

Environmental Niche Modeling

Background Identifying biodiversity hotspots on a local scale, using multiple data sources, and ecological niche modeling, has the potential to contribute to more effective nature reserve management. Methods In this study, we used infrared-triggered camera trapping, field surveys, and interviews to create a dataset on the distribution of species (mammals and birds) in Hebei Wulingshan Nature Reserve (Hebei Province, China). Results We identified 101 species (14 orders, 38 families), 64 of which (2,142 effective records) were selected for environmental niche modeling. All results were reclassified into three groups: “priority areas” (areas including the potential distributions of over 80% of species), “important areas” (those with 50% of species), and “normal areas” (all other areas). Our results show that priority areas (1.31–1.82 km2) and important areas (7.73–21.44 km2) for conservation were mainly covered by the core and experimental zones of the reserve; additionally, a kilometer-wide margin around the outside of the nature reserve seems to be important to maintaining biodiversity. Discussion We close by suggesting some actions for enhancing conservation of biodiversity in the reserve, including monitoring, strengthen law enforcements, introducing popular science, and co-operating with local people.

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