Supporting conservation with biodiversity research in sub-Saharan Africa's human-modified landscapes

dc.contributor.authorTrimble, Morgan Jayne
dc.contributor.authorVan Aarde, Rudi J.
dc.contributor.emailrjvaarde@zoology.up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-27T08:07:03Z
dc.date.available2015-07-27T08:07:03Z
dc.date.issued2014-08
dc.description.abstractProtected areas (PAs) cover 12 % of terrestrial sub-Saharan Africa. However, given the inherent inadequacies of these PAs to cater for all species in conjunction with the effects of climate change and human pressures on PAs, the future of biodiversity depends heavily on the 88 % of land that is unprotected. The study of biodiversity patterns and the processes that maintain them in human-modified landscapes can provide a valuable evidence base to support science-based policy-making that seeks to make land outside of PAs as amenable as possible for biodiversity persistence. We discuss the literature on biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa’s human-modified landscapes as it relates to four broad ecosystem categorizations (i.e. rangelands, tropical forest, the Cape Floristic Region, and the urban and rural built environment) within which we expect similar patterns of biodiversity persistence in relation to specific human land uses and land management actions. Available research demonstrates the potential contribution of biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes within all four ecosystem types and goes some way towards providing general conclusions that could support policy-making. Nonetheless, conservation success in human-modified landscapes is hampered by constraints requiring further scientific investment, e.g. deficiencies in the available research, uncertainties regarding implementation strategies, and difficulties of coexisting with biodiversity. However, information currently available can and should support efforts at individual, community, provincial, national, and international levels to support biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes.en_ZA
dc.description.embargo2015-08-31en_ZA
dc.description.librarianhb2015en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.Chair in Conservation Ecology at CERU.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://link.springer.com/journal/10531en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationTrimble, MJ & Van Aarde, RJ 2014, 'Supporting conservation with biodiversity research in sub-Saharan Africa's human-modified landscapes', Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 2345-2369.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0960-3115 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1572-9710 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1007/s10531-014-0716-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/49154
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSpringeren_ZA
dc.rights© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014. The original publication is available at : http://link.springer.comjournal/10531.en_ZA
dc.subjectCape Floristic Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectCountryside biogeographyen_ZA
dc.subjectOff-reserve conservationen_ZA
dc.subjectRangelandsen_ZA
dc.subjectReconciliation ecologyen_ZA
dc.subjectTropical foresten_ZA
dc.titleSupporting conservation with biodiversity research in sub-Saharan Africa's human-modified landscapesen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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