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Environmental offsets, resilience and cost-effective conservation
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Little, LR and Grafton, RQ, Environmental offsets, resilience and cost-effective conservation, Royal Society Open Science, 2, (7) Article 140521. ISSN 2054-5703 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Conservation management agencies are faced with acute trade-offs when dealing with disturbance from human activities. We show how agencies can respond to permanent ecosystem disruption by managing for Pimm resilience within a conservation budget using a model calibrated to a metapopulation of a coral reef fish species at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. The application is of general interest because it provides a method to manage species susceptible to negative environmental disturbances by optimizing between the number and quality of migration connections in a spatially distributed metapopulation. Given ecological equivalency between the number and quality of migration connections in terms of time to recover from disturbance, our approach allows conservation managers to promote ecological function, under budgetary constraints, by offsetting permanent damage to one ecological function with investment in another.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | conservation budgets, ecological equivalency, offsets, resilience, substitutability |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Environmental management |
| Research Field: | Environmental management |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
| Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Little, LR (Dr Richard Little) |
| ID Code: | 118811 |
| Year Published: | 2015 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 4 |
| Deposited By: | Zoology |
| Deposited On: | 2017-07-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-10-13 |
| Downloads: | 127 View Download Statistics |
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