Paul H. Williams

TL;DR: It is concluded that two basic rounds of analysis are required: recognition of global priority areas by taxic diversity techniques; and, within any such area, analysis without taxic weighting to identify a network of reserves to contain all local taxa and ecosystems.

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 apply species distribution modeling and conservation planning tools in three regions (Mexico, the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, and Western Europe) to examine the need for additional protected areas in light of anticipated species range shifts caused by climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ability of existing reserve-selection methods to secure species in a climate change context is assessed, for the first time, using European distributions of 1200 plant species and considering two extreme scenarios of response to climate change: no dispersal and universal dispersal.

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.