Fiddling in biodiversity hotspots while deserts burn? Collapse of the Sahara's megafauna

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 114-122

  Durant, S M ^a,b   Wacher, T ^c   Bashir, S ^d   Woodroffe, R ^a   De Ornellas, P ^c   Ransom, C ^c   Newby, J ^e   Abaigar T ^f   Abdelgadir, M ^g   El Alqamy, H ^h   Baillie, J ^c   Beddiaf, M ⁱ   Belbachir, F ^a,j   Belbachir Bazi, A ^j   Berbash, A A ^k   Bemadjim, N E ^l   Beudels Jamar, R ^m   Boitani, L ⁿ   Breitenmoser, C ^o   Cano, M ^f   Chardonnet, P ^p   Collen, B ^q   Cornforth, W A ^a   Cuzin, F ^r   Gerngross, P ^s   Haddane, B ^t   Hadjeloum, M ^u   Jacobson, A ^a   Jebali, A ^v   Lamarque, F ^w   Mallon, D ^x   Minkowski, K ^y   Monfort, S ^z   Ndoassal, B ^l   Niagate, B ^aa   Purchase, G ^b,c   Samaila S ^ab   Samna, A K ^ab   Sillero Zubiri, C ^ac   Soultan, A E ^h   Stanley Price, M R ^ac,ad   Pettorelli, N ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Birdlife International Asia   (Singapore)

^e Sahara Conservation Fund   (Switzerland)

^f DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAIL   (Saudi Arabia)

^h Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency   (Egypt)

ⁱ Office National du Parc Culturel du Tassili N Ajjer   (Algeria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BEJAIA   (Algeria)

^k Nature Conservation Department   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^l Direction des Parcs Nationaux des Réserves de Faune et de la Chasse   (Chad)

^m ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

ⁿ SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^o IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group   (Switzerland)

^p Fondation Internationale pour la Gestion de la Faune (Fondation IGF)   (France)

^q UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r Bab Agnaw   (Morocco)

^s BIOGEOMAPS   (Austria)

^t Fondation Mohamed VI pour la Protection de l'Environnement Rabat Maroc Programme Biodiversity   (Morocco)

^u Direction de la Protection de la Faune et de la Flore   (Algeria)

^v FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^w Ministere de l'Ecologie de l'Energie du Developpement Durable   (France)

^x MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^y not available   (United States)

^z SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^aa Parc National et Réserve de Biosphère de la Boucle du Baoulé   (Mali)

^ab De la Chasse et des Aires Protégée   (Niger)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ad Al Ain Zoo   (Saudi Arabia)

more..

Author keywords

Drylands; Large carnivores; Mammal distribution; Ostrich; UNCCD; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CARNIVORE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEGRADATION; DESERT; EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; REGION;

SAHARA;

ACINONYX JUBATUS; ADDAX; ADDAX NASOMACULATUS; DAMA; GAZELLA DAMA; MAMMALIA; ORYX DAMMAH; STRUTHIONIFORMES; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84890230454     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12157     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Alkon, P.U., Harding, L., Jdeidi, T., Masseti, M., Nader, I., de Smet, K., Cuzin, F. & Saltz, D. (2008) Capra nubiana. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (accessed 01 August 2013).
2. Bemadjim, N.E., Newby, J., Desbiez, A., Lees, C. & Miller, P. (2012) Technical workshop on the reintroduction of scimitar-horned oryx to the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve, Chad. IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, Apple Valley.
3. Beudels-Jamar, R.C., Devillers, P., Lafontaine, R.M., Devillers-Tershuren, J. & Beudels, M.O. (2006) Sahelo-Saharan antelopes. status and perspectives. Report on the conservation status of the six Sahelo-Saharan Antelopes. CMS Technical Series Publication No. 11. UNEP/CMS, Bonn.
4. Brito, J.C., Godinho, R., Martínez-Freiría, F. et al. (2013) Unravelling biodiversity, evolution and threats to conservation in the Sahara-Sahel. Biological Reviews, doi:10.1111/brv.12049.
5. Brooks, T.M., Mittermeier, R.A., Mittermeier, C.G., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Rylands, A.B., Konstant, W.R., Flick, P., Pilgrim, J., Oldfield, S., Magin, G. & Hilton-Taylor, C. (2002) Habitat loss and extinction in the hotspots of biodiversity. Conservation Biology, 16, 909-923.
6. Conliffe, A. (2011) Combating ineffectiveness: climate change bandwagoning and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Global Environmental Politics, 11, 44-63.
7. Darkoh, M.B.K. (2003) Regional perspectives on agriculture and biodiversity in the drylands of Africa. Journal of Arid Environments, 54, 261-279.
8. Davies, J., Poulsen, L., Schulte-Herbrüggen, B., Mackinnon, K., Crawhall, N., Henwood, W.D., Dudley, N., Smith, J. & Gudka, M. (2012) Conserving dryland biodiversity. IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Available at: www.iucn.org/publications (accessed 8 October 2012).
9. Denman, K.L., Brasseur, G., Chidthaisong, A., Ciais, P., Cox, P.M., Dickinson, R.E., Hauglustaine, D., Heinze, C., Holland, E., Jacob, D., Lohmann, U., Ramachandran, S., Dias, P.L.d.S., Wofsy, S.C. & Zhang, X. (2007) Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry. IPCC climate change 2007: the physical science basis (ed. by S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller), pp. 499-587. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
10. Dirzo, R. & Raven, P.H. (2003) Global state of biodiversity and loss. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 28, 137-167.
11. Durant, S.M., Pettorelli, N., Bashir, S. et al. (2012) Forgotten biodiversity in desert ecosystems. Science, 336, 1379-1380.
12. Estes, J.A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J.S. et al. (2011) Trophic downgrading of planet earth. Science, 333, 301-306.
13. Foden, W.B., Butchart, S.H.M., Stuart, S.N., Vié, J.-C., Akçakaya, H.R., Angulo, A., DeVantier, L.M., Gutsche, A., Turak, E., Cao, L., Donner, S.D., Katariya, V., Bernard, R., Holland, R.A., Hughes, A.F., O'Hanlon, S.E., Garnett, S.T., Şekercioǧlu, Ç.H. & Mace, G.M. (2013) Identifying the world's most climate change vulnerable species: a systematic trait-based assessment of all birds. amphibians and corals. PLoS One, 8, e65427.
14. Fritz, H., Loreau, M., Chamaille-Jammes, S., Valeix, M. & Clobert, J. (2011) A food web perspective on large herbivore community limitation. Ecography, 34, 196-202.
15. Global Environmental Facility (2010) OPS4 progress towards impact: fourth overall performance study of the GEF. Global Environmental Facility Evaluation Office, Washington D.C.
16. Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Jackson, S.F., Thomas, G.H., Davies, R.G., Davies, T.J., Jones, K.E., Olson, V.A., Ridgely, R.S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ding, T.S., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Gittleman, J.L. & Owens, I.P.F. (2006) Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature, 444, 93-96.
17. Hardcastle, P.D. (2008) Thematic review of Darwin Initiative projects related to forest biodiversity. Department of the Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs, London.
18. Homewood, K. (2009) Ecology of African pastoralist societies. Ohio University Press, Athens.
19. IIED (2013) Global public policy narratives on the drylands and pastoralism. Available at: http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10040IIED.pdf (accessed 19 July 2013)
20. IPCC (2012) Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. A special report of working groups i and ii of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (ed. by C.B. Field, V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor and P.M. Midgley). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
21. IUCN/SSC (2006) Regional conservation strategy for the lion Panthera leo in eastern and southern Africa, IUCN, Gland.
22. IUCN/SSC (2007a) Regional conservation strategy for the cheetah and African wild dog in eastern Africa, IUCN, Gland, available at: www.cheetahandwilddog.org (accessed 22 January 2010).
23. IUCN/SSC (2007b) Regional conservation strategy for the cheetah and African wild dog in southern Africa, IUCN, Gland, available at: www.cheetahandwilddog.org (accessed 7 October 2010).
24. IUCN/SSC (2008) Strategic planning for species conservation: a handbook. IUCN/SSC Version 1.0, IUCN, Gland.
25. IUCN/SSC (2012) Regional conservation strategy for the cheetah and African wild dog in western, central and northern Africa, IUCN, Gland, available at: www.cheetahandwilddog.org (accessed 27 November 2013).
26. Keller, A.A. & Goldstein, R.A. (1998) Impact of carbon storage through restoration of drylands on the global carbon cycle. Environmental Management, 22, 757-766.
27. Kerr, J.T. (1997) Species richness, endemism, and the choice of areas for conservation. Conservation Biology, 11, 1094-1100.
28. Lal, R. (2001) Potential of desertification control to sequester carbon and mitigate the greenhouse effect. Climatic Change, 51, 35-72.
29. Laurance, W.F. (2013) Does research help to safeguard protected areas? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 28, 261-266.
30. Loarie, S.R., Duffy, P.B., Hamilton, H., Asner, G.P., Field, C.B. & Ackerly, D.D. (2009) The velocity of climate change. Nature, 462, 1052-1055.
31. Mace, G.M., Masundire, H. & Baillie, J.E.M. (2005) Biodiversity. Ecosystems and human-well being: current state and trends (ed. by B. Scholes and R. Hassan), pp. 77-122. Island Press, Washington D.C.
32. McCabe, J.T. (2004) Cattle bring us to our enemies:Turkana ecology, politics, and raiding in a disequilibrium system. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
33. Merkt, J.R. & Taylor, C.R. (1994) Metabolic switch for desert survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 91, 12313-12316.
34. Middleton, N., Stringer, L., Goudie, A. & Thomas, D. (2011) The forgotten billion: MDG achievement in the drylands. United Nations, Publishing Services Section, ISO 14001:2004, Nairobi.
35. Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and human well-being: biodiversity synthesis. World Resources Institute, Washington D.C.
36. Mittermeier, R.A., Myers, N., Thomsen, J.B., daFonseca, G.A.B. & Olivieri, S. (1998) Biodiversity hotspots and major tropical wilderness areas: approaches to setting conservation priorities. Conservation Biology, 12, 516-520.
37. Mortimore, M., Anderson, S., Cotula, L., Davies, J., Faccer, K., Hesse, C., Morton, J., Nyangena, W., Skinner, J. & Wolfangel, C. (2009) Dryland opportunities: a new paradigm for people, ecosystems and development. IUCN, Gland.
38. Mueller, P. & Diamond, J. (2001) Metabolic rate and environmental productivity: well-provisioned animals evolved to run and idle fast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 98, 12550-12554.
39. Myers, N., Mittermeier, R.A., Mittermeier, C.G., da Fonseca, G.A.B. & Kent, J. (2000) Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature, 403, 853-858.
40. Nabuurs, G.J., Masera, O., Andrasko, K., Benitez-Ponce, P., Boer, R., Dutschke, M., Elsiddig, E., Ford-Robertson, J., Frumhoff, P., Karjalainen, T., Krankina, O., Kurz, W.A., Matsumoto, M., Oyhantcabal, W., Ravindranath, N.H., Sanz Sanchez, M.J. & Zhang, X. (2007) Forestry. Climate change 2007: mitigation. Contribution of working croup III to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ed. by B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave and L.A. Meyer), pp. 541-584. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
41. Poisot, T., Mouquet, N. & Gravel, D. (2013) Trophic complementarity drives the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in food webs. Ecology Letters, 16, 853-861.
42. Reid, W.V. (1998) Biodiversity hotspots. Trends In Ecology & Evolution, 13, 275-280.
43. Safriel, U., Adeel, Z., Niemeijer, D., Puigdefabregas, J., White, R., Lal, R., Winslow, M., Ziedler, J., Prince, S., Archer, E., King, C., Shapiro, B., Wessels, K., Nielsen, T., Portnov, B., Reshef, I., Thonell, J., Lachman, E. & McNab, D. (2005) Dryland systems. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: ecosystems and human well-being: current state and trends: findings of the condition and trends working group (ed. by R.M. Hassan, R. Scholes and N. Ash), pp 623-662. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
44. Sanderson, E.W., Redford, K.H., Chetkiewicz, C.B., Medellin, R.A., Rabinowitz, A.R., Robinson, J.G. & Taber, A.B. (2002) Planning to save a species: the jaguar as a model. Conservation Biology, 16, 58-72.
45. Sechrest, W., Brooks, T.M., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Konstant, W.R., Mittermeier, R.A., Purvis, A., Rylands, A.B. & Gittleman, J.L. (2002) Hotspots and the conservation of evolutionary history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 99, 2067-2071.
46. Thomas, C.D., Cameron, A., Green, R.E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L.J., Collingham, Y.C., Erasmus, B.F.N., de Siqueira, M.F., Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., van Jaarsveld, A.S., Midgley, G.F., Miles, L., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Peterson, A.T., Phillips, O.L. & Williams, S.E. (2004) Extinction risk from climate change. Nature, 427, 145-148.
47. Tollefson, J. & Gilbert, N. (2012) Earth summit: rio report card. Nature, 486, 20-23.
48. Trumper, K., Ravilious, C. & Dickson, B. (2008) Carbon in drylands: desertification, climate change and carbon finance. UNEP-UNDP-UNCCD Technical Note for Discussions CRIC 7, Istanbul.
49. UNCSD (2012) The future we want. Available at: http://www.unccd.int/Lists/SiteDocumentLibrary/Rio+20/TheFutureWeWantRIOplus20.pdf (accessed 19 July 2013).
50. UNEP/CMS (1999) Conservation measures for Sahelo-Saharan antelopes. Action plan and status reports. CMS Technical Series Publication No. 4, UNEP/CMS, Bonn.