Conservation Planning and Biodiversity: Assembling the Best Data for the Job

摘要: Readers of the note by Brooks et al. (2004) will, I hope, be persuaded urgent need for more comprehensive data on species. It would unfortunate, though, if readers formed impression that biodiversity processes cannot seriously considered conservation planners because "Techniques mapping and measuring ecological evolutionary are in their infancy." More unfortunate "broad-scale attributes" (Brooks 2004), hereafter "land types" (such as vegetation units or land systems) alternatives to Most agree with different currencies have advantages problems. From starting point, divergent courses can plotted. Brooks recommend species a promising option than relying types call an end "armchair environmental classification." Others taken course. Since early 1990s, many regional plans been shaped mixture surrogates, selected from list potential (Table 1) assembled into composite sets (Noss 1993; Davis 1999; Groves 2000; Cowling 2003). The rationale is straightforward: all surrogates limited idiosyncratically depictions pattern process, so array gives better picture.