Eficiencia de las unidades de conservación definidas en la Reserva Natural Iberá (Argentina) en la protección de la diversidad de reptiles

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 conservatio...