14. Protected Areas Planning for Species on the Move: Lessons from the tropics and marine opportunities

Derek Corcoran1, Pablo Marquet1 1Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile A regional assessment team has been analysing species and ecosystem movements for the Neotropics as part of the pan-tropical SPARC project.  The fundamental question we address is where protected areas and other conservation measures should be located to account for Species on the Move.  We…

Lee Hannah, Patrick Roehrdanz Species on the Move (SOTM)  present unique challenges for protected areas and other area-based conservation efforts that are fixed in space.  Nearly a decade of research now shows that area-based conservation deployed in the right places can minimize extinctions due to SOTM.  But multiple methods of planning conservation for SOTM have…

Dr Lee Hannah The marine realm poses unique challenges in protected area adaptation to climate change.  Marine species move more and faster in response to climate change and the biogeography of marine species is still far behind that of terrestrial species.  But the marine realm provides unique opportunities as well, such as mobile Marine Protected…

Prof David Schoeman1, Miss Tanya van Wyk1, Dr Carme Piza Roca1, Prof Anthony Richardson1, Dr Kylie Scales1 1Global-Change Ecology Research Group, School of Science and Engineering, University Of The Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia, 2Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Oceans and Atmosphere, BioSciences Precinct (QBP) & Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics,…

Mr Guillermo Ortuño Crespo1 1Duke University, Durham, United States The spatial expansion of marine fisheries into ever more remote High Seas waters entailed novel impacts on oceanic species, which extend beyond the target taxonomic groups. While the importance of the High Seas for the global seafood industry has continued to grow, the regulatory frameworks and…

Ms Madeline Davey1 1School of Biological Sciences, University Of Queensland,  Brisbane, Australia, 2Center for Conservation and Biodiversity Sciences , Brisbane, Australia Coral reefs are among the world’s most productive and diverse ecosystems, yet they are also one of the most threatened, suffering from significant and often deleterious anthropocentric and natural disturbances and changes. Environmental change…

Dr Toby PN Tsang1, Dr Shuang  Xing1, Prof Richard T Corlett2, Dr Patrick R Roehrdanz3, Dr Timothy Bonebrake1 1School of Biological Sciences, The University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, , China, 3Conservation International, Arlington, USA Many studies have shown that species have…