RT Journal Article
T1 Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana
A1 Rabasa, Sonia G.
A1 Sánchez de Dios, Rut
A1 Cabezas Fuentes, Francisco José
A1 Pías Couso, María Beatriz
A1 Domínguez Lozano, Felipe
AB Fragmentation and habitat loss are considered among the most important threats to biodiversity. More precisely, transformation of natural habitats into farmlands has been identified as one of the primary causes of plant species extinction. Therefore, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation is crucial to the successful conservation of threatened species. Metapopulation modeling is one of the prospective tools used in conservation biology to evaluate long-term survival in fragmented landscapes. In this work, we applied a metapopulation approach to the conservation of the rare plant Euphorbia gaditana Coss., an endangered species growing on the margins of crops in southern Spain. The species is threatened due to herbicide application and intensification of cultivation, which results in a highly patchy distribution, with more than 50 patches of habitat across three separate networks of patches. We used IFM (Incidence Function Modeling) to compare the relative effectiveness of four conservation management scenarios and the effect of three threat scenarios on the risk of extinction of the species. The results of our simulations of population dynamics under plausible management scenarios will aid conservation decision-making, for example, allowing priority conservation areas to be identified or assessing the effect of future reintroductions.
PB Wiley
SN 2578-4854
YR 2022
FD 2022-03-29
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71967
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71967
LA eng
NO Fundación Biodiversidad
NO Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica (MITECO)
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 16 may 2024