Critical catchments for freshwater biodiversity conservation in Europe: identification, prioritisation and gap analysis

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1209-1218

  Carrizo, Savrina F ^a   Lengyel, Szabolcs ^b   Kapusi, Felícia ^c   Szabolcs, Márton ^b,c   Kasperidus, Hans D ^d   Scholz, Mathias ^d   Markovic, Danijela ^e   Freyhof, Jörg ^f   Cid, Núria ^g   Cardoso, Ana C ^g   Darwall, William ^a  

^a Global Species Programme   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^g JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

alliance for zero extinction; dragonfly; fishing and fishery; key biodiversity area; Marxan; reserve design; snail, mussel and clam; systematic conservation planning; threatened species; watershed management and restoration

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIVALVE; CATCHMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DRAGONFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXTINCTION; FISH; FISHING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOLLUSC; POLICY APPROACH; PRIORITIZATION; PROTECTED AREA; RESERVE DESIGN; SNAIL; SOFTWARE; WATERSHED;

EUROPE;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 85021186037     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12842     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abell, R., Allan, J. & Lehner, B. (2007) Unlocking the potential of protected areas for freshwaters. Biological Conservation, 134, 48–63.
2. Abell, R., Thieme, M.L., Revenga, C. et al. (2008) Freshwater ecoregions of the world: a new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation. BioScience, 58, 403–414.
3. Allan, J.D. (2004) Landscapes and riverscapes: the influence of land use on stream ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 35, 257–284.
4. Ardron, J.A., Possingham, H.P. & Klein, C.J. (2010) Marxan Good Practices Handbook, Version 2. Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association, Victoria, BC, Canada.
5. Ball, I.R., Possingham, H.P. & Watts, M. (2009) Marxan and relatives: software for spatial conservation prioritisation. Spatial Conservation Prioritisation: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools (eds A. Moilanen, K.A. Wilson & H.P. Possingham), chapter 14, pp. 185–195. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
6. Beger, M., Grantham, H.S., Pressey, R.L. et al. (2010) Conservation planning for connectivity across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial realms. Biological Conservation, 143, 565–575.
7. Carranza, S. & Amat, F. (2005) Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution of Euproctus (Amphibia: Salamandridae), with the resurrection of the genus Calotriton and the description of a new endemic species from the Iberian Peninsula. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 145, 555–582.
8. Carwardine, J., Wilson, K.A., Ceballos, G., Ehrlich, P.R., Naidoo, R., Iwamura, T., Hajkowicz, S.A. & Possingham, H.P. (2008a) Cost-effective priorities for global mammal conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 11446–11450.
9. Carwardine, J., Wilson, K.A., Watts, M., Etter, A., Klein, C.J. & Possingham, H.P. (2008b) Avoiding costly conservation mistakes: the importance of defining actions and costs in spatial priority setting. PLoS ONE, 3, e2586.
10. Crofts, R. (2014) The European Natura 2000 protected area approach: a practitioner's perspective. Parks, 20, 75–86.
11. Cuttelod, A., Seddon, M. & Neubert, E. (2011) European Red List of Non-Marine Molluscs. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Belgium.
12. Darwall, W.R.T. & Vie, J.-C. (2005) Identifying important sites for conservation of freshwater biodiversity: extending the species-based approach. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 12, 287–293.
13. Darwall, W.R.T., Holland, R.A., Smith, K.G. et al. (2011) Implications of bias in conservation research and investment for freshwater species. Conservation Letters, 4, 474–482.
14. Darwall, W., Carrizo, S., Numa, C., Barrios, V., Freyhof, J. & Smith, K. (2014) Freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas in the Mediterranean Basin Hotspot: Informing Species Conservation and Development Planning in Freshwater Ecosystems. IUCN, Cambridge, UK/Malaga, Spain.
15. Dudgeon, D., Arthington, A.H., Gessner, M.O. et al. (2006) Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 81, 163–182.
16. EC (2011) Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020. COM/2011/244, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
17. EC (2012) Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions — a blueprint to safeguard Europe's water resources. European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52012DC0673&from=EN (accessed 15 November 2015).
18. Eionet (2009) European topic centre on biological diversity 2009: Online report on article 17 of the habitats directive (2001–2006). http://bd.eionet.europa.eu/activities/Reporting/Article_17/Reports_2007/index_html (accessed 15 November 2015).
19. Geiger, M., Herder, F., Monaghan, M. et al. (2014) Spatial heterogeneity in the mediterranean biodiversity hotspot affects barcoding accuracy of its freshwater fishes. Molecular Ecology Resources, 14, 1210–1221.
20. Groves, C.R., Game, E.T., Anderson, M.G. et al. (2012) Incorporating climate change into systematic conservation planning. Biodiversity and Conservation, 21, 1651–1671.
21. Heiner, M., Higgins, J., Li, X. & Baker, B. (2011) Identifying freshwater conservation priorities in the Upper Yangtze River Basin. Freshwater Biology, 56, 89–105.
22. Hermoso, V., Linke, S., Prenda, J. & Possingham, H.P. (2011) Addressing longitudinal connectivity in the systematic conservation planning of fresh waters. Freshwater Biology, 56, 57–70.
23. Higgins, J.V., Bryer, M.T., Khoury, M.L. & Fitzhugh, T.W. (2005) A freshwater classification approach for biodiversity conservation planning. Conservation Biology, 19, 432–445.
24. Holland, R.A., Darwall, W.R.T. & Smith, K.G. (2012) Conservation priorities for freshwater biodiversity: the key biodiversity area approach refined and tested for continental Africa. Biological Conservation, 148, 167–179.
25. IUCN (2013) IUCN Red List of threatened species. Version 2013.2. www.iucnredlist.org (accessed 22 April 2014).
26. IUCN (2014) Joint Task force on biodiversity and protected areas. Consultation document on an IUCN standard for the identification of key biodiversity areas. Draft 1 October 2014.
27. IUCN (2015) IUCN Red List of threatened species. Version 2015.2. www.iucnredlist.org [accessed 30 June 2015].
28. IUCN (2016) A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas, Version 1.0, 1st edn. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
29. IUCN & BirdLife International (2013) Key biodiversity areas: identifying areas of particular importance for biodiversity in support of the Aichi Targets. Seventeenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Montreal 14–18 October 2013. CBD.
30. Juffe-Bignoli, D., Harrison, I., Butchart, S.H.M. et al. (2016) Achieving Aichi biodiversity target 11 to improve the performance of protected areas and conserve freshwater biodiversity. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 26, 133–151.
31. Khoury, M., Higgins, J. & Weitzell, R. (2010) A freshwater conservation assessment of the Upper Mississippi River basin using a coarse- and fine-filter approach. Freshwater Biology, 56, 162–179.
32. Klein, C., Steinback, C., Scholz, A. & Possingham, H. (2008) Effectiveness of marine reserve networks in representing biodiversity and minimizing impact to fishermen: a comparison of two approaches used in California. Conservation Letters, 1, 44–51.
33. Langhammer, P.F., Bakarr, M.I., Bennun, L.A. et al. (2007) Identification and Gap Analysis of Key Biodiversity Areas: Targets for Comprehensive Protected Area Systems. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
34. Lehner, B. & Grill, G. (2013) Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world's large river systems. Hydrological Processes, 27, 2171–2186.
35. Linke, S., Turak, E. & Nel, J. (2011) Freshwater conservation planning: the case for systematic approaches. Freshwater Biology, 56, 6–20.
36. Linke, S., Pressey, R.L., Bailey, R.C. & Norris, R.H. (2007) Management options for river conservation planning: condition and conservation re-visited. Freshwater Biology, 52, 918–938.
37. Linke, S., Kennard, M.J., Hermoso, V., Olden, J.D., Stein, J. & Pusey, B.J. (2012) Merging connectivity rules and large-scale condition assessment improves conservation adequacy in river systems. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49, 1036–1045.
38. Margules, C.R. & Pressey, R.L. (2000) Systematic conservation planning. Nature, 405, 243–253.
39. Markovic, D., Carrizo, S., Freyhof, J., Cid, N., Lengyel, S., Scholz, M., Kasperidus, H. & Darwall, W. (2014) Europe's freshwater biodiversity under climate change: distribution shifts and conservation needs. Diversity and Distributions, 20, 1097–1107.
40. Moilanen, A., Wilson, K.A. & Possingham, H.P. (2008) Spatial Conservation Prioritisation: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
41. Moss, B. (1999) The seventh age of freshwater conservation – a triumph of hope over experience? Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 9, 639–644.
42. Moss, B. (2008) The water framework directive: total environment or political compromise? Science of the Total Environment, 400, 32–41.
43. Nel, J.L., Roux, D.J., Abell, R., Ashton, P.J., Cowling, R.M., Higgins, J.V., Thieme, M. & Viers, J.H. (2009) Progress and challenges in freshwater conservation planning. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 19, 474–485.
44. R Core Team (2012) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org/ [accessed 5 February 2012]
45. Ricketts, T.H., Dinerstein, E., Boucher, T. et al. (2005) Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 18497–18501.
46. Rodrigues, A.S.L., Akçakaya, H.R., Andelman, S.J. et al. (2004) Global gap analysis: priority regions for expanding the global protected-area network. BioScience, 54, 1092–1100.
47. Silvano, D., Angulo, A., Carnaval, A.C.O.Q. & Pethiyagoda, R. (2007) Designing a network of conservation sites for amphibians – key biodiversity areas. Amphibian Conservation Action Plan (eds C. Gascon, J.P. Collins, R.D. Moore, D.R. Church, J.E. McKay & J.R.I. Mendelson), pp. 12–15. IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland/Cambridge, UK.
48. Stewart, R.R. & Possingham, H.P. (2005) Efficiency, costs and trade-offs in marine reserve system design. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 10, 203–213.
49. Strayer, D.L. & Dudgeon, D. (2010) Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future challenges. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29, 344–358.
50. Thieme, M.L., Sindorf, N., Higgins, J., Abell, R., Takats, J.A., Naidoo, R. & Barnett, A. (2016) Freshwater conservation potential of protected areas in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Basins, USA.Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 26, 60–77.