Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica

Tesis (Doctorado) - CATIE. Escuela de Posgrado, Turrialba (Costa Rica), University of Idaho (Estados Unidos), 2016

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Main Author:	Ramos Bendaña, Zayra S.
Format:	Tesis
Language:	Inglés
Published:	CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) 2017
Subjects:	CONSERVACION PLANIFICACION SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS PAGO POR SERVICIOS ECOSISTEMICOS BIODIVERSIDAD ADAPTACION AL CAMBIO CLIMATICO SENSORES IMAGENES CARBONO COSTA RICA
Online Access:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/8593

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spelling	RepoCATIE85932023-08-15T16:28:05Z Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica Ramos Bendaña, Zayra S. CONSERVACION PLANIFICACION SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS PAGO POR SERVICIOS ECOSISTEMICOS BIODIVERSIDAD ADAPTACION AL CAMBIO CLIMATICO SENSORES IMAGENES CARBONO COSTA RICA Tesis (Doctorado) - CATIE. Escuela de Posgrado, Turrialba (Costa Rica), University of Idaho (Estados Unidos), 2016 Tropical forests are of high conservation priority world-wide due their high value for harboring biodiversity and providing ecosystem services from the local to global scale. Financial resources for conservation are scarce. This challenges practitioners to design conservation networks encompassing spatial synergies between biodiversity and ecosystem services. Furthermore, conservation networks need to be robust to climate change impacts and the unpredictability of biodiversity response to these impacts. Methodologies for selecting locations that can help achieve multiple conservation objectives and can be easily integrated in current conservation practices are urgently needed. The first chapter of this study was focused on exploring the effect of integrating into conservation assessments two climate adaptation approaches based on environmental heterogeneity, as well as the effect of the selection of planning unit size on resultant conservation networks. With Costa Rica as planning region, our results showed that protecting the representation of the geophysical diversity resulted in conservation networks with over 25% more internal environmental heterogeneity, but more fragmented. Incorporating cross-environmental connectivity, on the other hand, resulted in low increases in environmental heterogeneity. Increasing the planning unit size reduced the effect of emphasizing connectivity between environmentally different locations. These results highlight the importance of testing environmental-heterogeneity-based approaches in each context due the specific characteristics of planning regions prior integrating them into formal conservation assessments. The second chapter focused on exploring synergies between biodiversity and carbon storage priorities, when integrating environmental-heterogeneity-based climate adaptation approaches. Results revealed very low synergies between targeting the representation of regional biodiversity and areas of high carbon content. However, spreading out across the country the selection of carbon priority areas by adding stratification improved the synergies with biodiversity priorities, and revealed locations iv that could be considered priorities for carbon storage in the distribution range of Dry Tropical Forests; one of the most threatened tropical ecosystem. The extent of gains for co-benefits between carbon-related ES and biodiversity conservation will depend in part on how priority areas are selected for implementing strategies, such as PES and REDD, and will determine the location and amount of tropical forest to be conserved. As indicated by the recent development of the spatial data used in Chapter 2, improving spatial datasets for supporting ES targeting is critical in tropical dry forests. As a result, we developed new phenological approaches to map tropical dry forest type using multitemporal Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager data. The major gains in mapping accuracy realized by the multitemporal analysis bodes well for the future of landscape level ES planning in tropical dry forest. Finally, the promising progress in the detection of functional traits through remote sensing offers further opportunities to improve on the quality of the inputs for the mapping of ES, a topic covered in Chapter 4. CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza) 2017-06-22T14:49:38Z 2017-06-22T14:49:38Z 2016 Tesis de doctorado https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/8593 en info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
institution	Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
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language	Inglés
topic	CONSERVACION PLANIFICACION SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS PAGO POR SERVICIOS ECOSISTEMICOS BIODIVERSIDAD ADAPTACION AL CAMBIO CLIMATICO SENSORES IMAGENES CARBONO COSTA RICA
spellingShingle	CONSERVACION PLANIFICACION SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS PAGO POR SERVICIOS ECOSISTEMICOS BIODIVERSIDAD ADAPTACION AL CAMBIO CLIMATICO SENSORES IMAGENES CARBONO COSTA RICA Ramos Bendaña, Zayra S. Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica
description	Tesis (Doctorado) - CATIE. Escuela de Posgrado, Turrialba (Costa Rica), University of Idaho (Estados Unidos), 2016
format	Tesis
author	Ramos Bendaña, Zayra S.
author_facet	Ramos Bendaña, Zayra S.
author_sort	Ramos Bendaña, Zayra S.
title	Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica
title_short	Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica
title_full	Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica
title_fullStr	Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed	Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica
title_sort	systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in costa rica
publisher	CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
publishDate	2017
url	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/8593
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Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica

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