Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/17:00471395

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12723" target="_blank" >10.1111/cobi.12723</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation

Original language description

Linking diversity to biological processes is central for developing informed and effective conservation decisions. Unfortunately, observable patterns provide only a proportion of the information necessary for fully understanding the mechanisms and processes acting on a particular population or community. We suggest conservation managers use the often overlooked information relative to species absences and pay particular attention to dark diversity (i.e., a set of species that are absent from a site but that could disperse to and establish there, in other words, the absent portion of a habitat-specific species pool). Together with existing ecological metrics, concepts, and conservation tools, dark diversity can be used to complement and further develop conservation prioritization and management decisions through an understanding of biodiversity relativized by its potential (i.e., its species pool). Furthermore, through a detailed understanding of the population, community, and functional dark diversity, the restoration potential of degraded habitats can be more rigorously assessed and so to the likelihood of successful species invasions. We suggest the application of the dark diversity concept is currently an underappreciated source of information that is valuable for conservation applications ranging from macroscale conservation prioritization to more locally scaled restoration ecology and the management of invasive species.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Conservation Biology

ISSN

0888-8892

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

40-47

UT code for WoS article

000394428100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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