posted on 2023-05-19, 07:55authored byRichard Little, Grafton, RQ
Conservation management agencies are faced with acute trade-offs when dealing with disturbance from human activities. We show how agencies can respond to permanent ecosystem disruption by managing for Pimm resilience within a conservation budget using a model calibrated to a metapopulation of a coral reef fish species at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. The application is of general interest because it provides a method to manage species susceptible to negative environmental disturbances by optimizing between the number and quality of migration connections in a spatially distributed metapopulation. Given ecological equivalency between the number and quality of migration connections in terms of time to recover from disturbance, our approach allows conservation managers to promote ecological function, under budgetary constraints, by offsetting permanent damage to one ecological function with investment in another.
History
Publication title
Royal Society Open Science
Issue
7
Article number
140521
Number
140521
Pagination
1-8
ISSN
2054-5703
Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
Publisher
Royal Society
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Rights statement
Copyright 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Repository Status
Open
Socio-economic Objectives
Other environmental management not elsewhere classified