Eficiencia de las unidades de conservación definidas en la Reserva Natural Iberá (Argentina) en la protección de la diversidad de reptiles
AUTOR(ES)
Etchepare, Eduardo G., Giraudo, Alejandro R., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Bellini, Gisela P., Álvarez, Blanca B.
FONTE
Iheringia, Sér. Zool.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
13/02/2017
RESUMO
ABSTRACT Owing to accelerated biodiversity loss caused by human activities, the protected areas (PAs) are the main response to mitigate this crisis. The Iberá Natural Reserve (INR) includes 13000 km2 of private and state lands, which contain wetland and upland areas with high biodiversity, endemism and significant populations of threatened species. In order to implement its conservation, late last century, five Units of Conservation (UC) were defined and prioritized due to infrastructure and park-rangers, although poorly selected by explicit criteria. We defined priority areas for conservation (APCs) using the distribution patterns of reptiles in the INR, in order to evaluate the efficiency of the five UC located within its boundaries and detect other possible areas to be considered in conservation efforts. The INR was divided into 28 quadrat-cells of 0.25° latitude-longitude and through field samplings and revision of collections we obtained 1482 records of 71 species of reptiles, computed their presence / absence in the cells. We estimated species richness and Combined Biodiversity Index (including rarity and degree of threat) by cell. APCs were defined by an exact search (complementarity index), obtaining the minimum set of areas containing higher values of the indexes used, which is called “maximum efficiency”. The minimum area required to represent all species was ten cells (36%) and only two of them includes current UC. Add eight cells are needed to fill conservation gaps of reptiles, particularly in the north of the INR. About 20 threatened or poorly known species, 12 (60%) were not recorded in cells with UC. We proposed additional UC in order to protect all reptiles and include threatened species.
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