%0 Journal Article
%T Place prioritization for biodiversity content using species ecological niche modeling
%A V赤ctor S芍nchez-Cordero
%A Ver車nica Cirelli
%A Mariana Munguial
%A Sahotra Sarkar
%J Biodiversity Informatics
%D 2005
%I University of Kansas
%X Place prioritization for biodiversity representation is essential for conservation planning, particularly in megadiverse countries where high deforestation threatens biodiversity. Given the collecting biases and uneven sampling of biological inventories, there is a need to develop robust models of species＊ distributions. By modeling species＊ ecological niches using point occurrence data and digitized environmental feature maps, we can predict potential and extant distributions of species in untransformed landscapes, as well as in those transformed by vegetation change (including deforestation). Such distributional predictions provide a framework for use of species as biodiversity surrogates in place prioritization procedures such as those based on rarity and complementarity. Beyond biodiversity conservation, these predictions can also be used for place prioritization for ecological restoration under current conditions and under future scenarios of habitat change (e.g., deforestation) scenarios. To illustrate these points, we (1) predict distributions under current and future deforestation scenarios for the Mexican endemic mammal Dipodomys phillipsii, and show how areas for restoration may be selected; and (2) propose conservation areas by combining nonvolant mammal distributional predictions as biodiversity surrogates with place prioritization procedures, to connect decreed natural protected areas in a region holding exceptional biodiversity: the Transvolcanic Belt in central Mexico. La selecci車n de 芍reas prioritarias de conservaci車n es fundamental en la planeaci車n sistem芍tica de la conservaci車n, particularmente en pa赤ses de mega-diversidad, en donde la alta deforestaci車n es una de las amenazas a la biodiversidad. Debido a los sesgos taxon車micos y geogr芍ficos de colecta de los inventarios biol車gicos, es indispensable generar modelos robustos de distribuci車n de especies. Al modelar el nicho ecol車gico de especies usando localidades de colecta, mapas digitales de variables ambientales y sistemas de informaci車n geogr芍ficos, se proyecta las distribuciones potencial y actual en h芍bitat transformados y no transformados por la deforestaci車n. Estas hip車tesis de distribuci車n proveen un marco te車rico para predecir presencia y ausencia de especies, como indicadores de la biodiversidad existente en 芍reas prioritarias seleccionadas con base en los principios de rareza y complementariedad. Para ilustrar esto, se muestran dos ejemplos; (1) se model車 el nicho ecol車gico de un roedor end谷mico Dipodomys phillipsii, proyectando su distribuci車n en escenarios de deforestaci車n
%K biodiversity content
%K conservation
%K deforestation
%K ecological niche
%K endemic mammals
%K Mexico
%K place prioritization
%K restoration
%U https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/jbi/article/view/9/7