Journal
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
Volume 107, Issue 1, Pages 47-57Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00043-5
Keywords
Ramsar convention; wetlands of international importance; Mexico; waterfowl complementarity
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Those sites designated under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat constitute the most important wetland conservation network at a global level, with more than 1000 sites of international importance. With only seven designated sites, waterfowl and wetlands in Mexico are evidently Under-represented in the list. We identify 34 currently undesignated sites in Mexico that qualify as wetlands of international importance, based on waterfowl count data from 1991-1997, using the Ramsar Convention criteria based on waterfowl. Using a cornplementarity approach implemented by linear integer programming, the sites were prioritised into two categories on the basis of their importance for designation. Twelve sites were categorised as Priority I (higher), and 22 sites as Priority 2 (lower). The Priority I set has held a waterfowl count average of 1.2 million individuals, and between 1% (ruddy duck, Oxyura j. jamaicensis) and 51% (black brant, Branta bernicla nigricans) of the populations of 10 species of waterfowl, and includes sites from eight biogeographic regions. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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