The need for increased protection of Antarctica's inland waters
Protection of Antarctica's biodiversity and ecosystem values is enshrined in the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, which provides for the designation of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) to areas with outstanding values. Concern has been raised that existin...
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ftuamadrid:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/707625 2023-07-16T03:52:37+02:00 The need for increased protection of Antarctica's inland waters Hawes, Ian Howard-Williams, Clive Gilbert, Neil Hughes, Kevin A. Convey, P. Quesada del Corral, Antonio UAM. Departamento de Biología 2023-06-22T08:34:21Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10486/707625 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102022000463 eng eng Cambridge University Press Antarctic Science https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102022000463 Antarctic Science 35.2 (2022): 64 - 88 0954-1020 (print) 1365-2079 (online) http://hdl.handle.net/10486/707625 doi:10.1017/S0954102022000463 64 2 88 35 © The Author(s), 2023 Reconocimiento openAccess Aquatic Ecology Biodiversity Biogeography Conservation Environmental Protection Limnology Biología y Biomedicina / Biología article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftuamadrid https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102022000463 2023-06-27T23:14:16Z Protection of Antarctica's biodiversity and ecosystem values is enshrined in the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, which provides for the designation of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) to areas with outstanding values. Concern has been raised that existing ASPAs fail to prioritize areas to maximize the likelihood of ensuring the long-term conservation of Antarctic ecosystems and biodiversity. The absence of systematic and representative protection is particularly acute for inland aquatic ecosystems, which support a disproportionate amount of inland biodiversity. This paper promotes the case for overt inclusion of inland waters as a critical component of a representative protected area framework for Antarctica, thereby addressing their current underrepresentation. We set out a structured approach to enable the selection of representative freshwater systems for inclusion in the ASPA framework that, with modification, could also be applied across other Antarctic habitats. We acknowledge an overall lack of information on the biogeography of inland aquatic diversity and recommend increased use of remote data collection along with classification tools to mitigate this, as well as the need for the consideration of catchment-scale processes. Changes that accompany contemporary and anticipated climate change make the need for the conservation of representative biodiversity increasingly urgent Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Science Antarctica Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM): Biblos-e Archivo Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Science 35 2 64 88 |
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Protection of Antarctica's biodiversity and ecosystem values is enshrined in the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, which provides for the designation of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) to areas with outstanding values. Concern has been raised that existing ASPAs fail to prioritize areas to maximize the likelihood of ensuring the long-term conservation of Antarctic ecosystems and biodiversity. The absence of systematic and representative protection is particularly acute for inland aquatic ecosystems, which support a disproportionate amount of inland biodiversity. This paper promotes the case for overt inclusion of inland waters as a critical component of a representative protected area framework for Antarctica, thereby addressing their current underrepresentation. We set out a structured approach to enable the selection of representative freshwater systems for inclusion in the ASPA framework that, with modification, could also be applied across other Antarctic habitats. We acknowledge an overall lack of information on the biogeography of inland aquatic diversity and recommend increased use of remote data collection along with classification tools to mitigate this, as well as the need for the consideration of catchment-scale processes. Changes that accompany contemporary and anticipated climate change make the need for the conservation of representative biodiversity increasingly urgent |
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Hawes, Ian Howard-Williams, Clive Gilbert, Neil Hughes, Kevin A. Convey, P. Quesada del Corral, Antonio |
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The need for increased protection of Antarctica's inland waters |
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