Positive impacts of important bird and biodiversity areas on wintering waterbirds under changing temperatures throughout Europe and North Africa
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DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108549
Abstract: Abstract Migratory waterbirds require an effectively conserved cohesive network of wetland areas throughout their range and life-cycle. Under rapid climate change, protected area (PA) networks need to be able to accommodate climate-driven range shifts in… read more here.
Keywords: biodiversity areas; europe north; bird biodiversity; north africa ... See more keywords
Repeatable and standardised monitoring of threats to Key Biodiversity Areas in Africa using Google Earth Engine
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105763
Abstract: Abstract Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that make significant contributions to the global persistence of biodiversity, but identification of sites alone is not sufficient to ensure their conservation. Monitoring is essential if pressures on… read more here.
Keywords: earth engine; biodiversity areas; google earth; kbas ecoregions ... See more keywords
Essential ocean variables and high value biodiversity areas: Targets for the conservation of marine megafauna
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106504
Abstract: Abstract Effective conservation and management measures are needed to face the unprecedented changes that marine ecosystems, and particularly marine megafauna, are suffering. These measures require the identification of high-value biodiversity areas (HVBAs) which in turn… read more here.
Keywords: biodiversity areas; high value; ocean variables; value biodiversity ... See more keywords
Alarming decline of freshwater trigger species in western Mediterranean key biodiversity areas
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DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13810
Abstract: Theidentification of key biodiversity areas (KBA) was initiated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2004 to overcome taxonomic biases in the selection of important areas for conservation, including freshwater ecosystems. Since then,… read more here.
Keywords: freshwater; key biodiversity; trigger species; trigger ... See more keywords