Abstracts » Zoology and wildlife conservation

World heritage status and conservation of southern ocean islands

Article Abstract:

The islands of southern ocean provide nesting grounds for a significant portion of the world's procellariiform seabirds, house a variety of endemic species and several nations have nominated the southern islands under their control for world heritage status. It is suggested that if southern ocean islands were declared world heritage sites then exclusion of most human activities is the only way to ensure the persistence of many remarkable species and ecosystems.

Management dynamics, Management, Protection and preservation, Company business management, Sea birds, Southern Ocean, Aquatic ecosystems

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Reserve selection in regions with poor biological data

Article Abstract:

The exemplar data is used on the distribution of southern African birds to assess how sampling effort affects the performance of reserve networks. The results suggest that methods based on complementarity are potentially valuable tools for reserve selection in regions for which biological data are poor.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Botany, Analysis, Birds

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Integrating costs of conservation into international priority setting

Article Abstract:

Information on costs to use biological data to conserve each country's reserve network was contemplated. However the cost of implementing the same would be inversely proportional to the biodiversity that would be saved.

United States, Economic aspects, Biological diversity, Biodiversity, Conservation biology

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