Biodiversity priority areas together should represent the biodiversity of the region they are
situated in. To achieve this, biodiversity has to be measured, biodiversity goals have to be …

The biodiversity of the 5,000 km-long Great Escarpment of southern Africa is currently poorly
known, despite hosting half of the subcontinent's centres of plant endemism and to have a …

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

The Cape Floristic Region of South Africa is a global biodiversity hotspot. In 1998, a process
of conservation planning began in the region that required quantitative targets for …

This paper demonstrates how the power form of the Species–Area Relationship (SAR) can
be used to set conservation targets for land classes using biodiversity survey data. The log …

Endemic and/or threatened species are often targeted to set conservation priorities. It is
tempting to assume that a reserve network focusing on these species will be an effective …

This paper highlights a disjunction between the basic motivation of conservation planners,
policy-makers, and managers, which is to make a positive difference for biodiversity, and …

New South Wales (NSW) can be regarded as one of the more “data-rich” parts of the world
but its detailed biological data sets, like others elsewhere, are localised. These data are …

Environmental problems during the post-mining phase have generally been given less
attention than those during the operational phase of a mine. We reviewed the existing …

The formulation of a strategic plan for the conservation of terrestrial biodiversity in the Cape
Floristic Region (CFR; 87,892 km2) requires an objective and spatially explicit assessment …