Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140521
Title: Environmental offsets, resilience and cost-effective conservation
Authors: Little, L.R
Grafton, R.Q 
Issue Date: 2015
Citation: Little, L.R, Grafton, R.Q (2015). Environmental offsets, resilience and cost-effective conservation. Royal Society Open Science 2 (7) : 140521. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140521
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: 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. © 2015 The Authors.
Source Title: Royal Society Open Science
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/180328
ISSN: 20545703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140521
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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