解封保护服务的评估土地使用名称及其对实现生物多样性保护的影响
Caitlin S Dyckman1, Chris McMahan2, Anna Treado Overby3
1City and Regional Planning Program, School of Architecture, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.
概括
通过保护职务 (CEs) 来保护私有土地通常涉及住宅和农业用途,而不仅仅是生物多样性保护. 这些土地的评估土地使用指定 (LUD) 缺乏保护豁免,影响了保护结果.
科学领域:
- 保护生物学 保护生物学
- 环境规划 环境规划
- 土地利用科学 土地利用科学
背景情况:
- 由于土地利用转换,本地生态系统面临着显著的生物多样性丧失.
- 私人土地保护,特别是通过保护奴役 (CEs),在郊区正在增加.
- 现有的CE可能并不总是优先考虑生物多样性,因为允许的土地用途可能会增加人类的修改.
研究的目的:
- 检查在CE中注册的地块上的历史土地使用名称 (LUD).
- 评估CE目标与实际土地使用之间的一致性.
- 了解LUD对私有土地生物多样性保护结果的影响.
主要方法:
- 构建颗粒式CE数据集 (GCED),包括1997-2008/2009年间的地块LUD.
- 分析了美国6个州12个县的LUD模式.
- 检查了首要CE原因与地块LUDs之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 城外私人保护土地上的占主导地位的LUD是住宅和农业用地,住宅使用的趋势越来越大.
- 一个关键的发现是,在LUDs中,没有生物保护豁免名称.
- 在首要的CE原因和块的LUD之间没有观察到一致的趋势,表明不同的对齐.
结论:
- 在私人保护区土地上评估的土地用途往往以人为中心 (住宅,农业),而不是仅仅以保护为导向.
- 在LUD中缺乏特定的保护名称,这给实现生物多样性目标带来了挑战.
- 未来的私人土地保护战略和分类系统必须考虑经济驱动的土地保护区对保护结果的影响.
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