Data on the occurrence of species are widely used to inform the design of reserve networks.
These data contain commission errors (when a species is mistakenly thought to be present) …

A call has been made for conservation planners to include ecosystem services into their
assessments of conservation priority areas. The need to develop an integrated approach to …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

This study mapped the production of five ecosystem services in South Africa: surface water
supply, water flow regulation, soil accumulation, soil retention, and carbon storage. The …

We produced a conservation plan that achieved conservation targets for biodiversity pattern
and process in the species-and endemic-rich Cape Floristic Region of South Africa …

Ecosystems services sustain humans all over the world. The unsustainable use of
ecosystem services around the world has led to widespread degradation which now …

The appropriateness of species richness as an ecological indicator or decision variable for
setting conservation and management priorities depends on many assumptions. Most …

The Cape Floristic Region of South Africa is a global biodiversity hotspot. In 1998, a process
of conservation planning began in the region that required quantitative targets for …

Even under the most optimistic scenarios, during the next century human‐caused climate
change will threaten many wild populations and species. The most useful conservation …

Summary 1 Many authors have suggested that topography and soils are the major
determinants of species distributions and community patterns at small or regional scales, but …