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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab9fae
	Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa
	Grantham H.S.; Shapiro A.; Bonfils D.; Gond V.; Goldman E.; Maisels F.; Plumptre A.J.; Rayden T.; Robinson J.G.; Strindberg S.; Stokes E.; Tulloch A.I.T.T.; Watson J.E.M.; Williams L.; Rickenbach O.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:9
英文摘要	The forests of Central Africa contain some of Earth's few remaining intact forests. These forests are increasingly threatened by infrastructure development, agriculture, and unsustainable extraction of natural resources (e.g. minerals, bushmeat, and timber), all of which is leading to deforestation and forest degradation, particularly defaunation, and hence causing declines in biodiversity and a significant increase in carbon emissions. Given the pervasive nature of these threats, the global importance of Central African forests for biodiversity conservation, and the limited resources for conservation and sustainable management, there is a need to identify where the most important areas are to orientate conservation efforts. We developed a novel approach for identifying spatial priorities where conservation efforts can maximize biodiversity benefits within Central Africa's most intact forest areas. We found that the Democratic Republic of Congo has the largest amount of priority areas in the region, containing more than half, followed by Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Cameroon. We compared our approach to one that solely prioritizes forest intactness and one that aims to achieve only biodiversity representation objectives. We found that when priorities are only based on forest intactness (without considering biodiversity representation), there are significantly fewer biodiversity benefits and vice versa. We therefore recommend multi-objective planning that includes biodiversity representation and forest intactness to ensure that both objectives are maximized. These results can inform various types of conservation strategies needed within the region, including land-use planning, jurisdictional REDD + initiatives, and performance related carbon payments, protected area expansion, community forest management, and forest concession plans. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agricultural robots; Carbon; Conservation; Deforestation; Environmental protection; Land use; Biodiversity conservation; Conservation strategies; Democratic Republic of Congo; Forest concessions; Forest degradation; Infrastructure development; Multi-objective planning; Sustainable management; Biodiversity; biodiversity; conservation management; forest ecosystem; spatial analysis; Central Africa
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153742
作者单位	Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Bronx, NY, United States; World Wide Fund for Nature Germany, Space+Science, Berlin, Germany; World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington, DC, United States; Cirad, Forêts et Sociétés, Montpellier, F-34398, France; Forêts et Sociétés, Université Montpellier, Cirad, Montpellier, France; Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom; Kba Secretariat, C/o BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Brazzaville, Congo
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Grantham H.S.,Shapiro A.,Bonfils D.,et al. Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa[J],2020,15(9).
APA	Grantham H.S..,Shapiro A..,Bonfils D..,Gond V..,Goldman E..,...&Rickenbach O..(2020).Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa.Environmental Research Letters,15(9).
MLA	Grantham H.S.,et al."Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa".Environmental Research Letters 15.9(2020).