TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial and biological aspects of reserve design
AU - Chave, Jerome
AU - Wiegand, Kerstin
AU - Levin, Simon Asher
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Kris Rothley and Ran Nathan for useful discussions, three reviewers for stimulating and insightful comments, and Chuck ReVelle and Justin Williams for their editing of this special issue. JC and SL are supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (grant 99-8307) and by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. KW is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, HSP III) and by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The optimal spatial design of protected reserves requires attention to the biological mechanisms underlying community organization, and sustaining ecosystem services. Identifying the key mechanisms is especially difficult in species-rich ecosystems. We investigate the example of the tropical rainforest, a biome that is under threat of continuing fragmentation, yet which shelters the majority of living species on Earth. Simple dynamic and spatially explicit simulations, which model the dynamics of plant communities, allow us to elucidate the interplay between patterns of fragmentation and seed dispersal mechanisms in maintaining biodiversity.
AB - The optimal spatial design of protected reserves requires attention to the biological mechanisms underlying community organization, and sustaining ecosystem services. Identifying the key mechanisms is especially difficult in species-rich ecosystems. We investigate the example of the tropical rainforest, a biome that is under threat of continuing fragmentation, yet which shelters the majority of living species on Earth. Simple dynamic and spatially explicit simulations, which model the dynamics of plant communities, allow us to elucidate the interplay between patterns of fragmentation and seed dispersal mechanisms in maintaining biodiversity.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1015601800181
DO - 10.1023/A:1015601800181
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036276640
VL - 7
SP - 115
EP - 122
JO - Environmental Modeling and Assessment
JF - Environmental Modeling and Assessment
SN - 1420-2026
IS - 2
ER -