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Systematic conservation planning

Christopher Robert Margules (Author), Sahotra Sarkar (Author)
Print Book, English, impr. 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, impr. 2007
1 v. (VII-270 p. -[16] p. de plates) : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521878753, 9780521703444, 0521878756, 0521703441
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Acknowledgmentsviii
Introduction
1(18)
Conservation-area networks
2(3)
What do we mean by biodiversity?
5(3)
Systematic conservation planning
8(8)
Summary
16(3)
Biodiversity surrogates
19(28)
True and estimator surrogates
20(2)
Establishing the adequacy of an estimator-surrogate set
22(5)
Traditional species-based surrogates
27(3)
Systematic surrogate sets
30(12)
Surrogacy and spatial scale
42(1)
A protocol for the identification of an adequate surrogate set
43(1)
Diversity of ecological processes
44(1)
Summary
45(2)
Data collection
47(32)
Areas and features
47(4)
Sources of data
51(5)
Collecting new data with field surveys
56(20)
Summary
76(3)
Data treatments
79(26)
Conceptual framework
79(4)
Multi-variate pattern analysis
83(7)
Heuristic models
90(3)
Regression models
93(7)
Machine-learning methods
100(3)
Summary
103(2)
Conservation-area networks
105(26)
The role of conservation-area networks
105(3)
The goals of networks: representativeness, persistence and economy
108(4)
Selecting networks: complementarity
112(8)
Selecting networks: rarity and adjacency
120(1)
Subsidiary goals: flexibility, transparency, modularity, genericity and irreplaceability
121(3)
Algorithms for the selection of networks
124(3)
The trouble with scoring and ranking procedures
127(2)
Summary
129(2)
Persistence and vulnerability
131(38)
Incorporating biological processes
132(3)
Viability analysis
135(16)
Targets for representation
151(11)
Formal decision analysis
162(4)
Summary
166(3)
Satisfying multiple criteria
169(28)
Iterative-and terminal-stage procedures
171(1)
The valuation framework
172(4)
Non-dominated alternatives
176(4)
Refining non-dominated sets
180(8)
Sensitivity analysis
188(6)
Summary
194(3)
Systematic conservation plans
197(30)
Complementarity by inspection in the Nullarbor region, Australia
197(8)
Complementarity using species records in Quebec
205(4)
A marine conservation plan for the California Channel Islands, United States
209(5)
A conservation plan for the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa
214(5)
A conservation plan for Papua New Guinea
219(6)
Summary
225(2)
Conclusions
227(12)
Coping with uncertainty
228(3)
Practicing conservation science in a complex world
231(2)
Future directions
233(5)
Summary
238(1)
References239(26)
Index265
Bibliogr. p. 239-263