Journal
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 1-10Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00171-8
Keywords
reserve selection; incomplete information; species distributions
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Existing method for selecting reserve networks require data on the presence or absence of species at various sites. This information, however, is virtually always incomplete. In this paper, we analyze methods for choosing priority conservation areas when there is incomplete information about species distributions. We formulate a probabilistic model and find the reserve network that represents the greatest expected number of species. We compare the reserve network chosen using this approach with reserve networks chosen when the data is treated as if presence/absence information is known and traditional approaches are used. We find that the selection of sites differs when using probabilistic data to maximize the expected number of species represented versus using the traditional approaches. The broad geographic pattern of which sites are chosen remains similar across these different methods but some significant differences in site selection emerge when probabilities of species occurrences are not near 0 or 1. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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