Description
Climate change and anthropogenic activities threaten biodiversity and the provisioning of ecosystem goods and services. Climate-smart conservation planning can address these challenges, targeting protection in areas most resilient to climate change. Nonetheless, most conservation plans do not consider climate change because climate-smart approaches add complexity to the conservation plan and are often deemed more expensive (i.e., requires a larger area) to implement. We generated candidate reserve networks that protect mangrove biodiversity whilst prioritising the protection of climate-resilient mangrove patches. Our results show that climate-smart prioritisation requires a larger area to reach all conservation targets than a climate-naïve prioritisation (i.e., a plan that does not include climate change). However, the size of the climate-smart network increases with more stringent prioritisation of areas resilient to climate change. We also found that applying climate-smart conservation planning at the local scale is more costly and less efficient than at larger scales. Our findings suggest that a global network of climate-smart protected areas is only slightly more costly than a climate-naïve network and that transboundary cooperation is needed to tackle climate change in conservation planning.| Periode | 13 okt 2024 → 18 okt 2024 |
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| Evenementstitel | 7th International Marine Conservation Congress |
| Evenementstype | Conference |
| Locatie | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Mate van erkenning | International |