Journal article
Major conservation policy issues for biodiversity in oceania
Conservation Biology, Vol.23(4), pp.834-840
2009
Abstract
Oceania is a diverse region encompassing Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, and Polynesia, and it contains six of the world's 39 hotspots of diversity. It has a poor record for extinctions, particularly for birds on islands and mammals. Major causes include habitat loss and degradation, invasive species, and overexploitation. We identified six major threatening processes (habitat loss and degradation, invasive species, climate change, overexploitation, pollution, and disease) based on a comprehensive review of the literature and for each developed a set of conservation policies. Many policies reflect the urgent need to deal with the effects of burgeoning human populations (expected to increase significantly in the region) on biodiversity. There is considerable difference in resources for conservation, including people and available scientific information, which are heavily biased toward more developed countries in Oceania. Most scientific publications analyzed for four threats (habitat loss, invasive species, overexploitation, and pollution) are from developed countries: 88.6% of Web of Science publications were from Australia (53.7%), New Zealand (24.3%), and Hawaiian Islands (10.5%). Many island states have limited resources or expertise. Even countries that do (e.g., Australia, New Zealand) have ongoing and emerging significant challenges, particularly with the interactive effects of climate change. Oceania will require the implementation of effective policies for conservation if the region's poor record on extinctions is not to continue.
Details
- Title
- Major conservation policy issues for biodiversity in oceania
- Authors/Creators
- R.T. Kingsford (Author/Creator)J.E.M. Watson (Author/Creator)C.J. Lundquist (Author/Creator)O. Venter (Author/Creator)L. Hughes (Author/Creator)E.L. Johnston (Author/Creator)J. Atherton (Author/Creator)M. Gawel (Author/Creator)D.A. Keith (Author/Creator)B.G. Mackey (Author/Creator)C. Morley (Author/Creator)H.P. Possingham (Author/Creator)B. Raynor (Author/Creator)H.F. Recher (Author/Creator)K.A. Wilson (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Conservation Biology, Vol.23(4), pp.834-840
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Inc.
- Identifiers
- 991005542048907891
- Copyright
- © 2009 Society for Conservation Biology.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
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- 3.40.195 Biodiversity Conservation
- Web Of Science research areas
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Ecology
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- ESI research areas
- Environment/Ecology