Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making

Mapping pressures to species is key to identify where biodiversity is at risk and providing relevant information to direct conservation actions. Decision-making to minimise pressures requires the determination of specific target actions at a high level of detail. However, the trade-off between cost...

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Autores: Pla, Magda, Hermoso, Virgilio, Pino i Vilalta, Joan, Brotons, Lluís
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repositorio:Repositori Obert UdL
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02786-0
https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/465600
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Conservation management
Biodiversity
Decision-making
Drivers of change
Mapping pressures
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spelling Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision makingPla, MagdaHermoso, VirgilioPino i Vilalta, JoanBrotons, LluísConservation managementBiodiversityDecision-makingDrivers of changeMapping pressuresMapping pressures to species is key to identify where biodiversity is at risk and providing relevant information to direct conservation actions. Decision-making to minimise pressures requires the determination of specific target actions at a high level of detail. However, the trade-off between cost and effort to generate this information often leads to the production of generalised pressure maps, named coarse maps, covering the most relevant pressures and their proxies. Here we aimed to disentangle whether the cost and effort of mapping fine pressures is worthwhile to inform decision making, by comparing how fine and coarse maps identify “where” and “how” management actions should be derived. Comparing the extend of both map types as well as its capacity to identify risk areas. We focused on three main pressures: agricultural intensification, human intensification, and land abandonment. The study was carried out in Catalonia for local decision-making, but the results can be applied in other EU regions or elsewhere, also for local decisions-making. We found that the Jaccard’s similarity index between coarse and fine pressure maps was always below 0.3 indicating low overlap between fine and coarse maps. In particular, the coincidence between coarse and fine thematic maps within protected areas (PAs) was always below 50%. Both maps differed in the identification of risk areas inside three analysed PAs. Moreover, even when there was a total geographical overlap between coarse and fine maps, coarse maps lack information on which concrete pressure was actually present, making decision on actions needed difficult. Thus, we can conclude that fine maps can estimate more accurately both “where” and “how” to target concrete actions than coarser maps. Even in cases where the answer as to “where” to act is the same, fine maps provide more concrete information to provide guidance on “how” to act. Consequently, despite the high cost and effort involved in mapping pressures at a high level of detail, the final trade-off is positive.Funding Open Access Funding provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. This work was supported by the projects Monitoring of Environmental Change Factors in Catalonia Drivers of Change from the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of the Catalan Government and PIKSEL from Catalan Government and CIMNE. This study was partially funded by MCIN/AEI through the projects GREENRISK (PID2020-119933RB-C22) and CEX-2018-000828-S “Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa”. VH was supported by an Emergia contract (EMERGIA20_00135).Springer2024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02786-0https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/465600reponame:Repositori Obert UdL instname:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-119933RB-C22Reproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02786-0Biodiversity and Conservation, 2024, vol. 33, p. 1079–1098cc-by (c) The Authors, 2024Attribution 4.0 Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/4656002026-06-24T12:42:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
title Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
spellingShingle Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
Pla, Magda
Conservation management
Biodiversity
Decision-making
Drivers of change
Mapping pressures
title_short Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
title_full Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
title_fullStr Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
title_full_unstemmed Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
title_sort Mapping pressures on biodiversity: the contribution of thematic detail to decision making
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pla, Magda
Hermoso, Virgilio
Pino i Vilalta, Joan
Brotons, Lluís
author Pla, Magda
author_facet Pla, Magda
Hermoso, Virgilio
Pino i Vilalta, Joan
Brotons, Lluís
author_role author
author2 Hermoso, Virgilio
Pino i Vilalta, Joan
Brotons, Lluís
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Conservation management
Biodiversity
Decision-making
Drivers of change
Mapping pressures
topic Conservation management
Biodiversity
Decision-making
Drivers of change
Mapping pressures
description Mapping pressures to species is key to identify where biodiversity is at risk and providing relevant information to direct conservation actions. Decision-making to minimise pressures requires the determination of specific target actions at a high level of detail. However, the trade-off between cost and effort to generate this information often leads to the production of generalised pressure maps, named coarse maps, covering the most relevant pressures and their proxies. Here we aimed to disentangle whether the cost and effort of mapping fine pressures is worthwhile to inform decision making, by comparing how fine and coarse maps identify “where” and “how” management actions should be derived. Comparing the extend of both map types as well as its capacity to identify risk areas. We focused on three main pressures: agricultural intensification, human intensification, and land abandonment. The study was carried out in Catalonia for local decision-making, but the results can be applied in other EU regions or elsewhere, also for local decisions-making. We found that the Jaccard’s similarity index between coarse and fine pressure maps was always below 0.3 indicating low overlap between fine and coarse maps. In particular, the coincidence between coarse and fine thematic maps within protected areas (PAs) was always below 50%. Both maps differed in the identification of risk areas inside three analysed PAs. Moreover, even when there was a total geographical overlap between coarse and fine maps, coarse maps lack information on which concrete pressure was actually present, making decision on actions needed difficult. Thus, we can conclude that fine maps can estimate more accurately both “where” and “how” to target concrete actions than coarser maps. Even in cases where the answer as to “where” to act is the same, fine maps provide more concrete information to provide guidance on “how” to act. Consequently, despite the high cost and effort involved in mapping pressures at a high level of detail, the final trade-off is positive.
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Biodiversity and Conservation, 2024, vol. 33, p. 1079–1098
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