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| Title |
A Climatic Stability Approach to Prioritizing Global Conservation Investments
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, November 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0015103 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Takuya Iwamura, Kerrie A. Wilson, Oscar Venter, Hugh P. Possingham |
| Abstract |
Climate change is impacting species and ecosystems globally. Many existing templates to identify the most important areas to conserve terrestrial biodiversity at the global scale neglect the future impacts of climate change. Unstable climatic conditions are predicted to undermine conservation investments in the future. This paper presents an approach to developing a resource allocation algorithm for conservation investment that incorporates the ecological stability of ecoregions under climate change. We discover that allocating funds in this way changes the optimal schedule of global investments both spatially and temporally. This allocation reduces the biodiversity loss of terrestrial endemic species from protected areas due to climate change by 22% for the period of 2002-2052, when compared to allocations that do not consider climate change. To maximize the resilience of global biodiversity to climate change we recommend that funding be increased in ecoregions located in the tropics and/or mid-elevation habitats, where climatic conditions are predicted to remain relatively stable. Accounting for the ecological stability of ecoregions provides a realistic approach to incorporating climate change into global conservation planning, with potential to save more species from extinction in the long term. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Australia | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 227 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 4 | 2% |
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Italy | 3 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | 4% |
| Unknown | 203 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 57 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 37 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 8% |
| Other | 15 | 7% |
| Other | 45 | 20% |
| Unknown | 24 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 91 | 40% |
| Environmental Science | 76 | 33% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Engineering | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 5% |
| Unknown | 31 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 September 2013.
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#6,605,132
of 25,083,571 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#91,388
of 217,637 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,463
of 192,612 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#458
of 1,008 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,083,571 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 217,637 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its peers.
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