Are important bird areas and special protected areas enough for conservation?: the case of Bonelli's eagle in a Mediterranean area
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Title: | Are important bird areas and special protected areas enough for conservation?: the case of Bonelli's eagle in a Mediterranean area |
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Other Titles: | ¿Son suficientes para la conservación las ZEPAs y las ZECs?: el caso del Aguila perdicera en el área mediterránea |
Authors: | López-López, Pascual | García Ripollés, Clara | Soutullo, Alvaro | Cadahía Lorenzo, Luis | Urios, Vicente |
Research Group/s: | Zoología de Vertebrados |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales | Universitat de València. Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva |
Keywords: | GAP Analysis | GIS | Habitat selection | Hieraaetus fasciatus | Predictive models | Raptors | Spain |
Knowledge Area: | Ornitología |
Date Created: | 11-Feb-2007 |
Issue Date: | 9-Mar-2007 |
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
Citation: | LÓPEZ LÓPEZ, Pascual, et al. "Are important bird areas and special protected areas enough for conservation?: the case of Bonelli's eagle in a Mediterranean area". Biodiversity and Conservation. Vol. 16, No. 13 (Dec. 2007). ISSN 0960-3115, pp. 3755-3780 |
Abstract: | The Bonelli’s eagle (BE) is considered by the European Union as a high-priority species for conservation in the Valencian Community (East of Spain). However, in 2006 the European Union opened a legal procedure against the Spanish Kingdom, accused of lacking of an adequate network of special protected areas (SPAs) to preserve the BE in the region. Here we evaluate whether important bird areas (IBAs) and SPAs network is enough to preserve this species, on the basis of a thorough analysis of habitat preferences. A GAP analysis is performed to conduct a revision of current SPAs and BirdLife proposed IBAs. Our results suggest that the current network of SPAs becomes insufficient to protect the BE. The IBAs network, although improves the current network of SPAs, increasing the percentage of BE potential habitat included, also results inadequate. We propose a new SPAs network according to the potential suitable habitat for the species. Given the trade-off between financial investment and the conservation of biodiversity, we propose to maximize the surface of potential habitat included in the protected network minimizing the surface of the region that would be necessary to protect, thus avoiding an unnecessary expense and otherwise unrealistic results. |
Sponsor: | Fundación Terra Natura |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/7313 |
ISSN: | 0960-3115 (Print) | 1572-9710 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10531-007-9179-1 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-007-9179-1 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - ZV - Artículos Científicos |
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