Conclusions
Throughout this exercise you have made selection and design decisions within a small landscape while affecting only a few species. Even within this simple system, making the optimal decision for several species simultaneously can be challenging. It is even more challenging for real-world conservation planners to accommodate really challenging species, such as large top predators, in landscapes where competing interests can be powerful advocates for the de-velopment of natural areas. Time is short in many regions for conservation planners to select and design protected natural areas. Within a matter of a few decades, the options for protecting natural areas in many regions will be very limited as land is dedicated to other uses. For the future of biological di-versity, it is crucial for planners to employ the principles introduced in this chapter in their decision-making processes. Failure to do so will have irre-versible consequences for the biodiversity of many of the world’s regions.
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Temple, S.A., Cary, J.R. (2002). Reserve Design. In: Gergel, S.E., Turner, M.G. (eds) Learning Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21613-8_19
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