[PDF] Top 20 Spatial Analysis of Federal Protected Areas and Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Brazil

... Brazil’s biodiversity is attested by its diver- sity of ecosystems, biological species, endemic species, and genetic ...variations, Brazil hosts six biomes and a coastal marine ecosystem ...are ... See full document

... society, protected areas are increasingly expected to justify their existence through the services that they provide to ...society. Protected areas offer many important cultural services, but ... See full document

... sensitivity analysis for the planning unit sizes, which can influence the potential to achieve habitat conservation objectives ...the spatial patterns somewhat but the current dimensions are probably ... See full document

... of areas of permanent protection (APP) fragments and slope. APP areas are established by the Brazilian Forest Code (Federal Law 4771/1965) and are defined as “protected areas, both ... See full document

... minimum spatial and temporal adjustments or integration in monitoring localities may improve a well-established wide coverage system using the concept of “units of biomonitor- ...reference areas for water ... See full document

... Stakeholder engagement is a dynamic process that needs to be dialogue-based and include feedback mechanisms that allow stakeholders to assess their engagement. Social auditing, defined as a process that enables an ... See full document

... thank Polita Glynn for assisting in the workshop organization. SG, JM, and MM were supported by ARC CEED, University of Queensland funding. RB, PC, PG-B, SGe, LMcC, FM, PM, AW, and HP were supported by The Pew Fellows ... See full document

... Shipping in Antarctica has being growing steadily and during the past few years several accidents have been reported in Antarctic waters. Although in ATCM and IMO the necessity for tougher standards has been recognized, ... See full document

... few protected areas in Ecuador that exists west of the Andes Cordillera (MAE, ...of protected areas and enhancement of environmental policy brought about by the new constitution during the ... See full document

... global spatial coverage of protected areas, Van Laerhoven (2010) uses community monitoring as a proxy for effective management, and Gutiérrez et ... See full document

... nated protected areas are sometimes dimin- ished by legal means (Mascia and Pailler, ...African protected areas have been downsized or downgraded (Edwards et ...to protected ... See full document

... ecological areas was undertaken by multidisciplinary scientific advisory committees of the NZFS (Scientific Coordinating Committee for Beech Research and State Forests Scientific Reserves Advisory Committee; these ... See full document

... Bangladesh is the world largest deltaic country with a total area of 147570 sq. kilometer and situated in the north-eastern part of South Asia between 20°34' to 26°38' N latitude and 88°01' to 92°41' E longitude [1]. It ... See full document

... For the Biotic subsystem, data interpretation was based mainly on expert knowledge, because the comprehensive data on distribution within the protected area of the plant and animal species (including the species ... See full document

... contributes to broader national and international biodiversity conservation strategies. GD-PAME 68 ; World Database on Protected Areas 157 ; National Biodiversity 493. Strategies and Ac[r] ... See full document

... of conservation planning around the globe have been limited in scope, restricted to analyses of the peer-reviewed literature, pertaining to narrow time periods and have not always involved input from practitioners ... See full document

... the areas of high ...2006). Areas with large tidal ranges will result in a greater volume of water moving in the tidal cycle, which will increase the presence and strength of these aggregating ... See full document

... the spatial statis- tics tools calculated mean values until it could produced no new ones (Can Model ...the protected area database or made into a point layer and linked to the protected area ... See full document

... Maslow (1954) emphasized that human needs such as shelter, self-esteem, and safety should be met to enable the person to carry out his duties effectively; thereby adding that, depriving human needs for a long period of ... See full document

... exacerbate unequal land ownership by making it unaffordable for smallholder farmers, although in southern Chile, where smallholder farmers are abandoning and selling their land (Diaz et al. 2011), demand from ... See full document