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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Conserving European biodiversity across realms
Conservation Letters, Volume 12, No. 1, Article e12586, Year 2019
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Terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems are connected via multiple biophysical and ecological processes. Identifying and quantifying links among ecosystems is necessary for the uptake of integrated conservation actions across realms. Such actions are particularly important for species using habitats in more than one realm during their daily or life cycle. We reviewed information on the habitats of 2,408 species of European conservation concern and found that 30% of the species use habitats in multiple realms. Transportation and service corridors, which fragment species habitats, were identified as the most important threat impacting ∼70% of the species. We examined information on 1,567 European Union (EU) conservation projects funded over the past 25 years, to assess the adequacy of efforts toward the conservation of “multi-realm” species at a continental scale. We discovered that less than a third of multi-realm species benefited from projects that included conservation actions across multiple realms. To achieve the EU's conservation target of halting biodiversity loss by 2020 and effectively protect multi-realm species, integrated conservation efforts across realms should be reinforced by: (1) recognizing the need for integrated management at a policy level, (2) revising conservation funding priorities across realms, and (3) implementing integrated land-freshwater-sea conservation planning and management. © 2018 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Giakoumi, Sylvaine
France, Nice
Ecology and Conservation Science for Sustainable Seas
Hermoso-López, Virgilio
Spain, Solsona
Centre Tecnológic Forestal de Catalunya
Carvalho, Sílvia B.
Portugal, Fornelo e Vairao
Cibio - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos
Markantonatou, Vasiliki
Greece, Mytilene
University of the Aegean
Iwamura, Takuya
Israel, Tel Aviv-yafo
Tel Aviv University
Probst, Wolfgang Nikolaus
Germany, Bremerhaven
Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries
Smith, Robert J.
United Kingdom, Canterbury
University of Kent
Yates, Katherine L.
United Kingdom, Salford
University of Salford
Katsanevakis, Stelios
Greece, Mytilene
University of the Aegean
Claudet, Joachim
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
France, Perpignan
Laboratoire D'excellence Corail
Coll, Marta
Spain, Barcelona
Csic - Instituto de Ciencias Del Mar Icm
Deidun, Alan
Malta, Msida
L-università Ta' Malta
Essl, Franz
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
Jiménez, Carlos E.
Cyprus, Nicosia
Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre
Cyprus, Nicosia
The Cyprus Institute
Kark, Salit
Unknown Affiliation
Mazaris, Antonios D.
Greece, Thessaloniki
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Rabitsch, Wolfgang Bernhard
Austria, Vienna
Environment Agency Austria
Tricarico, Elena
Italy, Florence
Università Degli Studi Di Firenze
Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N.
Cyprus, Nicosia
Open University of Cyprus
Statistics
Citations: 17
Authors: 19
Affiliations: 23
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/conl.12586
ISSN:
1755263X
Research Areas
Health System And Policy