Context

Socioecological information should be properly employed in the process of spatial analysis, planning, and management in order to respond to complex and multidirectional biodiversity issues.

Objectives

We conducted this study to map socioecological hotspots, where landscapes of social significance and wildlife habitats overlap, show to what extent and how the spatial distribution of social values (SVs) of people toward their landscapes interact with wildlife habitats in socioecological hotspots, simulate the potential for habitat degradation as a result of human activities linked to SVs, identify strategic areas for landscape restoration in socioecological hotspots, where both environmental conditions and SVs support the persistence and colonization of wildlife, and detect specific areas, where SVs of people may be contradictive leading to land-use disputes.

Methods

We developed a model to show the potential for habitat degradation based on the spatial distribution of SVs associated with landscapes. We restricted our study to the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB) and focused on habitats of five keystone mammal species to assess the validity of our model.

Results

Habitat loss, habitat subdivision, habitat dispersion, and habitat shrinkage can be four consequences of human activities for biodiversity in socioecological hotspots of the UMRB, however, the magnitude of impacts varies among landscapes and mammal species.

Conclusion

Spatially explicit models to properly map SVs in relation to wildlife habitats are still associated with some uncertainties and limitations, and therefore, require further development. Change in SVs and public attitudes toward land use is essential to avoid further biodiversity loss in this region.

中文翻译：

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将社会价值和野生动植物栖息地纳入大平原景观生物多样性保护模型

语境

社会生态信息应在空间分析，规划和管理过程中适当使用，以应对复杂的多向生物多样性问题。

目标

我们进行了这项研究，以绘制具有社会意义的景观和野生动植物栖息地重叠的社会生态学热点区域，显示人们对其景观的社会价值（SVs）的空间分布程度以及如何与社会生态学热点地区的野生生物栖息地相互作用，模拟潜在的因与SV相关的人类活动而导致的栖息地退化，在社会生态学热点地区确定景观恢复的战略区域，环境条件和SV均支持野生动植物的持续生存和定居，并检测特定区域，其中SV可能与人为矛盾。土地使用纠纷。

方法

我们开发了一个模型，以根据与景观相关的SV的空间分布来显示栖息地退化的潜力。我们将研究限于密苏里州上游流域（UMRB），并着眼于5种主要哺乳动物的栖息地，以评估我们模型的有效性。

结果

生境的丧失，生境的细分，生境的分散和生境的缩小可能是人类活动对UMRB社会生态热点中生物多样性的四个后果，但是，影响的程度因景观和哺乳动物物种而异。

结论

正确绘制与野生动植物栖息地相关的SV的空间显式模型仍然存在一些不确定性和局限性，因此需要进一步开发。SV的变化和公众对土地使用的态度对于避免该地区进一步的生物多样性丧失至关重要。