Selecting Antarctic Specially Protected Areas: Important Bird Areas can help

A key element in Antarctic conservation over the past forty years has been area protection. In pursuit of this and the protection of continuing scientific investigations 59 protected areas have so far been agreed by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings. Although both flora and fauna have been...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Antarctic Science
Main Authors: Cooper, John, Woehler, Eric, Belbin, Lee
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2000
Subjects:
Geology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Oceanography
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctic Science
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095410200000016x
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S095410200000016X
Description
Summary:A key element in Antarctic conservation over the past forty years has been area protection. In pursuit of this and the protection of continuing scientific investigations 59 protected areas have so far been agreed by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings. Although both flora and fauna have been protected under this regime there has only been the habitat matrix devised by SCAR as a guide to selection of areas. What could we do to improve the process of identification and selection?

Similar Items