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Raising the bar for systematic conservation planning

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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages 634-640

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.08.001

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  1. Australian Research Council [LP0882780]
  2. Applied Environmental Decision Analysis research hub
  3. Australian Research Council [LP0882780] Funding Source: Australian Research Council

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Systematic conservation planning (SCP) represents a significant step toward cost-effective, transparent allocation of resources for biodiversity conservation. However, research demonstrates important consequences of uncertainties in SCP and of basing methods on simplified circumstances involving few real-world complexities. Current research often relies on single case studies with unknown forms and amounts of uncertainty as well as low statistical power for generalizing results. Consequently, conservation managers have little evidence for the true performance of conservation planning methods in their own complex, uncertain applications. To build effective and reliable methods in SCP, there is a need for more challenging and integrated testing of their robustness to uncertainty and complexity, and much greater emphasis on generalization to real-world situations.

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