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Selecting priority areas to conserve Psittacines in the Brazilian cerrado: minimizing human–conservation conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2007

MÍRIAM PLAZA PINTO ,
PABLO VINÍCIUS CLEMENTE MATHIAS ,
DANIEL BLAMIRES ,
JOSÉ ALEXANDRE FELIZOLA DINIZ-FILHO  and
LUIS MAURICIO BINI
MÍRIAM PLAZA PINTO
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, ICB, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
PABLO VINÍCIUS CLEMENTE MATHIAS
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, ICB, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
DANIEL BLAMIRES
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
JOSÉ ALEXANDRE FELIZOLA DINIZ-FILHO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia, MCAS/PROPE, Universidade Católica de Goiás, Brazil Departamento de Biologia, ICB, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
LUIS MAURICIO BINI
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia, ICB, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
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Abstract

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The rapid destruction of habitat in biodiversity hotspots calls for the urgent formulation of conservation strategies. In this study, macro-scale biogeographical data for 33 species of Psittacines were used to select networks of priority areas, using an algorithm based on the complementarity concept. Human population size was also incorporated as a cost in the selection process, and the two networks of priority areas (with and without cost) were compared. In the comparison the number of cells selected to represent all species did not differ, but a rearrangement occurred between them. Two of the four cells were located in the same place, and the others changed location but stayed aggregated within the same regions. The study shows that it is possible to minimize human population size and represent all species in a network of priority areas.

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Bird Conservation International , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 13 - 22
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BirdLife International 2007