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EcoLand: A multiscale niche modelling framework to improve predictions on biodiversity and conservation
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation ( IF 4.0 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 , DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2021.03.008
Thadeu Sobral-Souza , Jessie Pereira Santos , Maria Eduarda Maldaner , Matheus S. Lima-Ribeiro , Milton Cézar Ribeiro

Species are disappearing worldwide with increasing rates through the time, especially in the tropics. The human-induced impacts have a pivotal role in the discussion about the cause of these extinctions events. Although researchers are nearly unanimous about the current biodiversity crisis, there is still a debate about how these human-induced impacts affect biodiversity across different geographical scales. While our perception about landscape modification promoted by deforestation occurs at local scales, we treat the increase of greenhouse gas emissions and its consequences in a global perspective. This diffuse view about different processes but potential assembling properties illustrates the importance of combining small and broad-scales to improve our conservation actions and decelerate extinction events. Here, we propose an integrated framework (Ecoland) combining landscape ecology and macroecology for niche modelling applications, aiming to disentangle the effects of human-induced impacts on biodiversity and guide conservation tasks at multiple scales. We demonstrated the EcoLand application using a dataset of fruit-feeding butterfly species occurrence from the Atlantic Forest. Our findings highlight the impact of the land-use modification on the number of butterfly species. Finally, we discuss the method implications, its limitations and perspectives, and how it the Ecoland can help us to design conservation strategies aiming at the maintenance of biodiversity and its related policy practices.



中文翻译:

EcoLand:一个多尺度生态位建模框架,以改善对生物多样性和保护的预测

随着时间的推移,物种正在世界范围内以越来越快的速度消失,尤其是在热带地区。人为影响在有关这些灭绝事件原因的讨论中具有关键作用。尽管研究人员对当前的生物多样性危机几乎一致,但关于这些人为影响如何影响不同地理尺度的生物多样性仍存在争议。虽然我们对森林砍伐促进景观改造的看法发生在局部范围内,但我们从全球角度看待温室气体排放的增加及其后果。这种关于不同过程但潜在组装特性的分散观点说明了结合小尺度和大尺度以改善我们的保护行动和减缓灭绝事件的重要性。这里,Ecoland ) 结合景观生态学和宏观生态学进行生态位建模应用,旨在解开人为影响对生物多样性的影响,并在多个尺度上指导保护任务。我们使用来自大西洋森林的食果蝴蝶物种发生的数据集演示了EcoLand应用程序。我们的研究结果强调了土地利用改造对蝴蝶物种数量的影响。最后,我们讨论了方法的影响、局限性和前景,以及Ecoland如何帮助我们设计旨在维护生物多样性的保护策略及其相关政策实践。

更新日期:2021-04-15
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