Prioritizing areas for bird conservation at western Trans-Mexican volcanic belt
Ensure the maintenance of wildlife populations and ecosystems in Mexico, demands to identify essential regions that are priority and representative for the most significant ecosystems and species. In the present study, we determined priority areas in order to carry out conservation actions for birds at the western Transmexican Volcanic Belt. For this purpose, we modeled the distribution of 121 priority bird species at the national level; then, we determined the connectivity of the vegetation cover where the species potentially distributed and used a complementarity approach considering all species, the connectivity index, and representativeness in the natural protected areas, with allowed the identification of those areas with a high concentration of species richness, high concentrations of endemicity and high levels of landscape connectivity that were excluded from actual protection decrees. The results show three optimal areas as relevant conservation sites, with different ecological characteristics, the sites with temperate forest cover and tropical forest in the north and south center of the study area stand out. The information generated will help complement a network of Protected Areas that favors the conservation of bird diversity and their ecosystems in this study area. Keywords: Biodiversity conservation; governance; landscape management ID: 3621938
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| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cc1705en http://www.fao.org/3/cc1705en/cc1705en.pdf |
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