Conservation planning

Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity
Aim Land-use change is the single biggest cause of biodiversity loss. With a rising demand for resources, understanding how and where …
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Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland
A large proportion of European biodiversity today depends on habitat provided by low-intensity farming practices, yet this resource is …
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Mapping seasonal European bison habitat in the Caucasus Mountains to identify potential reintroduction sites
In an increasingly human-dominated world, conservation requires the mitigation of conflicts between large mammals and people. Conflicts …
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Using optimization methods to align food production and biodiversity conservation beyond land sharing and land sparing
Aligning food production with biodiversity conservation is one of the greatest challenges of our time. One framing of this challenge is …
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Potential impacts of oil and gas development and climate change on migratory reindeer calving grounds across the Russian Arctic
Aim Drivers of biodiversity loss are increasingly broad in scale, requiring conser-vation planning to move towards range-wide …
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Hot moments for biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity conservation requires prioritization to be effective. Biodiversity hotspots and conservation planning identify where to …
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Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes
Many traditional farming landscapes have high conservation value. Conservation policy in such landscapes typically follows a …
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Future land use effects on the connectivity of protected area networks in southeastern Spain
Land-use change is a major driver of the global biodiversity crisis, mainly via the fragmentation and loss of natural habitat. Although …
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Potential habitat connectivity of European bison (Bison bonasus) in the Carpathians
Habitat connectivity is important for the survival of species that occupy habitat patches too small to sustain an isolated population. …
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Refugee species: which historic baseline should inform conservation planning?
Understanding species’ historical ranges can provide important information for conservation planning in the face of environmental …
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