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Site complementarity between biodiversity and ecosystem services in conservation planning of sparsely-populated regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2015

JÉRÔME CIMON-MORIN ,
MARCEL DARVEAU  and
MONIQUE POULIN
JÉRÔME CIMON-MORIN
Affiliation:
Laval University, Pavillon Paul-Comtois, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, Département de phytologie, 2425 rue de l’Agriculture, Québec, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6 Ducks Unlimited Canada, 710 Bouvier, Bureau 260, Québec, QC, CanadaG2J 1C2 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, McGill University, Stewart Biology Building, Department of Biology, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montréal, QC, CanadaH3A 1B1
MARCEL DARVEAU
Affiliation:
Laval University, Pavillon Paul-Comtois, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, Département de phytologie, 2425 rue de l’Agriculture, Québec, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6 Ducks Unlimited Canada, 710 Bouvier, Bureau 260, Québec, QC, CanadaG2J 1C2 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, McGill University, Stewart Biology Building, Department of Biology, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montréal, QC, CanadaH3A 1B1
MONIQUE POULIN*
Affiliation:
Laval University, Pavillon Paul-Comtois, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, Département de phytologie, 2425 rue de l’Agriculture, Québec, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, McGill University, Stewart Biology Building, Department of Biology, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montréal, QC, CanadaH3A 1B1
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*Correspondence: Dr Monique Poulin Tel: +1 418 656 2131 ext. 13035 e-mail: monique.poulin@fsaa.ulaval.ca
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Summary

The consequences of considering ecosystem services (ES) in conservation assessment are still widely debated. The degree of success depends on the extent to which biodiversity and ES can be secured under joint conservation actions. Unlike biodiversity, ES conservation is inseparably linked to human beneficiaries. Reconciling biodiversity with ES and conservation can be particularly challenging in sparsely populated areas. This study, in a sparsely-populated region of eastern Canada, focused on freshwater wetland biodiversity and ten ES provided by wetlands. Within a given maximal total area, the results showed that planning for biodiversity underrepresented local flow ES supply by 57% and demand by 61% in conservation networks. Planning for ES alone underrepresented wetland biodiversity surrogates by an average of 34%. Considering both biodiversity and ES simultaneously, all of the biodiversity and ES targets were achieved with only a 6% mean increase in area. Achieving all conservation targets starting from a network that was primarily built for either ES or biodiversity features alone was two to five times less efficient than considering both ES and biodiversity simultaneously in conservation assessment. A better framework is required to translate these spatial synergies into effective joint conservation actions.

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borealconservation assessmentecological servicesystematic conservation planningwetland
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 56 - 68
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2015 

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