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  • Managing freshwater, river, wetland and estuarine protected areas

    Author(s)
    Pittock, Jamie
    Finlayson, Max
    Arthington, Angela H
    Roux, Dirk
    Matthews, John H
    Biggs, Harry
    Blom, Esther
    Flitcroft, Rebecca
    Froend, Ray
    Harrison, Ian
    Hermoso, Virgilio
    Junk, Wolfgang
    Kumar, Ritesh
    Linke, Simon
    Nel, Jeanne
    da Cunha, Catia Nunes
    Pattnaik, Ajit
    Pollard, Sharon
    Rast, Walter
    Thieme, Michele
    Turak, Eren
    Turpie, Jane
    van Niekerk, Lara
    Willems, Daphne
    Viers, Joshua
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Arthington, Angela H.
    Linke, Simon
    Hermoso, Virgilio
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Better practices for managing inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas—including rivers, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries—are the focus of this chapter. Most natural protected areas are designated as ‘terrestrial’ or ‘marine’, and the obvious question for most managers is ‘why should I worry about the (usually) small portion of my protected area that involves freshwater habitat’. On the contrary, in this chapter, we argue that freshwater and estuarine habitats are significant for conserving biodiversity in most land-based protected areas and that managers need to apply the freshwater-specific ...
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    Better practices for managing inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas—including rivers, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries—are the focus of this chapter. Most natural protected areas are designated as ‘terrestrial’ or ‘marine’, and the obvious question for most managers is ‘why should I worry about the (usually) small portion of my protected area that involves freshwater habitat’. On the contrary, in this chapter, we argue that freshwater and estuarine habitats are significant for conserving biodiversity in most land-based protected areas and that managers need to apply the freshwater-specific conservation tools outlined here to do a good job. Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area, a larger portion of freshwater and estuarine species are threatened, and the ecosystem services of these biomes are used unsustainably to a greater extent than any other biomes (MEA 2005; Dudgeon et al. 2006). Many terrestrial species depend on freshwater ecosystems. Rather than a marginal part of management, freshwater conservation is central to sustaining protected areas and their biodiversity.
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    Book Title
    Protected Area Governance and Management
    Publisher URI
    http://press.anu.edu.au/?p=312491
    Subject
    Environmental Monitoring
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/142224
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