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Beyond priority pixels: Delineating and evaluating landscapes for conservation in the contiguous United States by Travis Belote, R. (author);Aplet, Gregory H. (author);Carlson, Anne A. (author);Dietz, Matthew S. (author);May, Allen (author);McKinley, Peter S. (author);Schnure, Marty (author);Garncarz, Jeremy (author) is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Sustaining biodiversity depends on conservation actions coordinated at spatial extents large enough to maintain ecological processes. Numerous conservation prioritizations have been conducted resulting in gridded maps of pixels representing importance. However, it is not always clear how to move from priority pixels to landscape conservation designs, as pixels do not represent tangible, coherent landscapes for conservation attention. We attempted to move from pixels to landscapes by locating patches of high value pixels and overlaying level IV ecoregions from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to delineate 74 landscapes ranging from 2927 to 95,962 km 2 . These landscapes were delineated to represent large areas of high wildland conservation value on which landscape conservation plans could focus, but where such plans would be embedded in national conservation priorities. After delineating landscapes, we assessed how well they represented the highest value areas with respect to ecological integrity, connectivity value, ecosystem representation priority, and biodiversity priority. We also assessed socio-economic condition of people within landscapes by evaluating
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- Author
- Travis Belote, R. (author);Aplet, Gregory H. (author);Carlson, Anne A. (author);Dietz, Matthew S. (author);May, Allen (author);McKinley, Peter S. (author);Schnure, Marty (author);Garncarz, Jeremy (author)
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)