The effects of governmental protected areas and social initiatives for land protection on the conservation of Mexican amphibians
Traditionally, biodiversity conservation gap analyses have been focused on governmental protected areas (PAs). However, an increasing number of social initiatives in conservation (SICs) are promoting a new perspective for analysis. SICs include all of the efforts that society implements to conserve biodiversity, such as land protection, from private reserves to community zoning plans some of which have generated community-protected areas. This is the first attempt to analyze the status of conservation in Latin America when some of these social initiatives are included. The analyses were focused on amphibians because they are one of the most threatened groups worldwide. Mexico is not an exception, where more than 60% of its amphibians are endemic. We used a niche model approach to map the potential and real geographical distribution (extracting the transformed areas) of the endemic amphibians. Based on remnant distribution, all the species have suffered some degree of loss, but 36 species have lost more than 50% of their potential distribution
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | Anfibios, Espacios naturales protegidos, Conservación de la diversidad biológica, |
| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731544/pdf/pone.0006878.pdf |
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