Freshwater ecosystems in protected areas: A synthesis
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Finlayson, CM
Arthington, AH
Pittock, J
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2018
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In 2014 the IUCN issued a call for a specific focus on the coverage and management of freshwater ecosystems in their own right rather than as components of Protected Areas (PAs) established for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems. The argument that freshwater PA managers need to apply freshwater-specific conservation principles and tools to ensure that PAs are effective in protecting aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services has been extended by others.In 2014 the IUCN issued a call for a specific focus on the coverage and management of freshwater ecosystems in their own right rather than as components of Protected Areas (PAs) established for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems. The argument that freshwater PA managers need to apply freshwater-specific conservation principles and tools to ensure that PAs are effective in protecting aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services has been extended by others.
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Freshwater Ecosystems in Protected Areas: Conservation and Management
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© 2018 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Freshwater Ecosystems in Protected Areas: Conservation and Management on 7 December 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315226385
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Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified