Chris Margules

TL;DR: An analysis of global forest cover is conducted to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is within 1 km of the forest’s edge, subject to the degrading effects of fragmentation, indicating an urgent need for conservation and restoration measures to improve landscape connectivity.

TL;DR: Some basic principles for conservation planning are emerging from recent systematic procedures for reserve selection, and these principles will help to link intention and practice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors advocate the following four approaches to enhance biodiversity conservation in forests: (1) establish biodiversity priority areas (e.g., reserves) managed prima- rily for the conservation of biological diversity; (2) within production forests, apply structure-based indica- tors including structural complexity, connectivity, and heterogeneity; (3) using multiple conservation strate- gies at multiple spatial scales, spread out risk in wood production forests; and (4) adopt an adaptive management approach to test the validity of structural-based indices of Biological diversity

TL;DR: Two algorithms are presented which define the smallest number of wetlands on the Macleay Valley floodplain, Australia, which include all of the wetland plant species, and one of these algorithms maximises species richness, which can be constrained to achieve other conservation goals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared three quantitative methods for choosing 5% of all the 10 × 10 km grid cells in Britain to represent the diversity of breeding birds: hotspots of richness, which selects the areas richest in species; hotspots with range-size rarity (narrow endemism); and sets of complementary areas, which select areas with the greatest combined species richness.