Evaluation of ecological effectiveness of protected areas in Northwest China

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	Evaluation of ecological effectiveness of protected areas in Northwest China
	Ye, Xin; Liu, Guohua; Li, Zongshan; Gong, Li; Wang, Meng; Wang, Hao
刊名	CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE
	2017-04-01
卷号	27 期号:2 页码:259-272
关键词	Conservation Strategies Biodiversity Ecosystem Functions Protected Area Effectiveness Ecological System Representation
英文摘要	Protected areas (PAs) have experienced explosive growth in Northwest China over the last three decades, but their effectiveness in representing regional ecological system diversity has not attracted considerable attention. Low effectiveness would exacerbate the conservation-development conflicts, particularly those that arise as a result of the Great Western Development Strategy (GWDS). Thus, an assessment of the effectiveness of the PA network has become quite important. We proposed natural vegetation communities to represent regional ecological system diversities, and proposed Global 200 Priority Ecoregions, Important Bird Areas, and ecosystem function regions to represent important conservation areas. To determine their effectiveness, we studied the extent to which ecological system diversities and important conservation areas are represented by the existing 96 PAs. Our results indicated that the total coverage of vegetation communities in PAs in Northwest China is not sufficiently comprehensive. As the PA system has expanded, the growth in the total area of the PAs has been greater than that of their vegetation community richness. While most of the important conservation areas are covered by PAs, some regions have not yet reached the 10% threshold; further, PAs are distributed unevenly and conservation gaps remain in the region. Therefore, these regions should receive more attention when planning new PAs. It is vital that more biodiversity datasets and assessment of ecosystem function regions are integrated in order to provide a basis for the government to formulate appropriate protection and development strategies.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/39017]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ye, Xin,Liu, Guohua,Li, Zongshan,et al. Evaluation of ecological effectiveness of protected areas in Northwest China[J]. CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE,2017,27(2):259-272.
APA	Ye, Xin,Liu, Guohua,Li, Zongshan,Gong, Li,Wang, Meng,&Wang, Hao.(2017).Evaluation of ecological effectiveness of protected areas in Northwest China.CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE,27(2),259-272.
MLA	Ye, Xin,et al."Evaluation of ecological effectiveness of protected areas in Northwest China".CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE 27.2(2017):259-272.