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- Title
Avoiding costly conservation mistakes: the importance of defining actions and costs in spatial priority setting.
- Authors
Carwardine, Josie; Wilson, Kerrie A; Watts, Matt; Etter, Andres; Klein, Carissa J; Possingham, Hugh P
- Abstract
The typical mandate in conservation planning is to identify areas that represent biodiversity targets within the smallest possible area of land or sea, despite the fact that area may be a poor surrogate for the cost of many conservation actions. It is also common for priorities for conservation investment to be identified without regard to the particular conservation action that will be implemented. This demonstrates inadequate problem specification and may lead to inefficiency: the cost of alternative conservation actions can differ throughout a landscape, and may result in dissimilar conservation priorities.
- Publication
PloS one, 2008, Vol 3, Issue 7, pe2586
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0002586