Protected areas and freshwater biodiversity

Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future ...

The biota of fresh waters is very much larger than would be expected from the area covered by freshwater habitats, although it has not yet been ...

Grand Challenges to Support the Freshwater Biodiversity ... - Frontiers

Ecological principles and guidelines for improved use, management and monitoring of freshwater protected areas and their surrounding landscapes warrant far ...

Protected areas: A focus on Brazilian freshwater biodiversity - Ex Libris

Brazil has a variety of aquatic ecosystems and rich freshwater biodiversity, but these components have been constantly damaged by the expansion of ...

Protecting and restoring habitats to benefit freshwater biodiversity

2002; Suski and Cooke 2007; Azevedo-Santos et al. 2019). Habitat protection, in the sense of protected areas, is usually focused on preserving areas that are ...

[PDF] Freshwater Protected Areas: Strategies for Conservation

Abstract: Freshwater species and habitats are among the most threatened in the world. One way in which this growing conservation concern can be addressed is ...

Protected areas: A focus on Brazilian freshwater biodiversity

Brazil has a variety of aquatic ecosystems and rich freshwater biodiversity, but these components have been constantly damaged by the expansion of ...

Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future ...

The biota of fresh waters is very much larger than would be expected from the area covered by freshwater habitats, although it has not yet been fully ...

Freshwater Protection - Center for Biological Diversity

The reverse is also true: Protecting freshwater wildlife safeguards clean water. All of it benefits people. But freshwater biodiversity is rapidly declining — ...

Assessment of a terrestrial protected area for the conservation of ...

Aquatic macroinvertebrates and fishes were surveyed, and biodiversity (richness, abun- dance, Shannon-Wiener diversity, and Pielou's evenness) and water quality.

Protected areas cover a sixth of Earth's land and freshwater

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly a sixth of the planet's land and freshwater area now lies within protected or conservation areas, according to a ...

IUCN WCPA Freshwater Specialist Group

Ensure freshwater ecosystems are integrated into the network of protected areas and OECMs; review and compile criteria for effective management; and ...

Protecting California's Aquatic Biodiversity in a Time of Crisis

We already have a good idea where many of the most important areas for freshwater species conservation are located. However, there has been ...

Do protected areas benefit freshwater species? - jstor

1. Assessment of the performance of protected areas in conserving freshwater biodiversity has been limited, has mostly involved small-scale studies and has ...

The role of protected areas for freshwater biodiversity conservation ...

human well-being and in meeting future challenges to achieve the CBD targets for freshwater biodiversity. ... connectivity and the close links with the rest of ...

How effective are protected areas for reducing threats to biodiversity ...

Protected areas (PAs) have become one of the most important instruments to preserve nature and, when effective, can significantly reduce ...

Is Freshwater Biodiversity Still Largely at Risk Despite Conservation ...

Not only so, but they also suggest that the protected areas cover the full range of biodiversity within their ecologically defined region and ...

Mismatch between protected areas and freshwater biodiversity

But centres of freshwater biodiversity and species richness that are often not covered by protected areas coincide with high levels of rural ...

Protected areas – A focus on Brazilian freshwater biodiversity

The article argues that current PAs in Brazil have limited efficacy in the protection of freshwater biodiversity.

Protected areas maintain neotropical freshwater bird biodiversity in ...

Protected Areas (PAs) can be an effective tool to secure the conservation of freshwater animal assemblages. Given their ability to respond to changes in site ...

A review of approaches for designing freshwater protected areas

Second, we summarize systematic conservation planning and discuss ecosystem approaches for freshwater systems including representation, biodiversity surrogates, ...