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Building a regionally connected reserve network in a changing and uncertain world.

Daniel Spring1, Jiri Baum, Ralph Mac Nally

  • 1Australian Centre for Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. daniel.spring@sci.monash.edu.au

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Planning for habitat connectivity must consider future development threats. Proactive strategies ensure reserve networks remain connected, unlike those focusing only on current risks, which often fail to complete linkage projects.

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Area of Science:

  • Conservation Biology
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Spatial Planning

Background:

  • Habitat connectivity is crucial for species movement and population viability, especially with climate change.
  • Establishing large-scale habitat linkages is time-consuming and vulnerable to development pressures.
  • Current reserve scheduling often overlooks evolving threats from spreading development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the importance of incorporating future threats into reserve scheduling for maintaining habitat connectivity.
  • To compare forward-looking strategies with those that only consider current threats.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies using landscape-scale connectivity metrics.

Main Methods:

  • Applied forward-looking and current-threat-based scheduling strategies to a Costa Rican case study.
  • Utilized two landscape-scale connectivity metrics: pure connectivity and connected habitat diversity.
  • Assessed the reliability of strategies based on the completion of planned habitat linkage projects.

Main Results:

  • Strategies considering only current threats proved unreliable, frequently failing to secure habitat linkages.
  • Forward-looking strategies that accounted for future development were more effective and reliable.
  • The likelihood of completing habitat linkage projects was significantly impacted by future development spread.

Conclusions:

  • Considering future threats is critical for successful long-term habitat connectivity projects.
  • Proactive reserve network design that anticipates development is essential for conservation.
  • Effective reserve scheduling requires dynamic planning that adapts to changing landscapes.