Identifying areas of high importance for orchid conservation in east Macedonia (NE Greece). Tsiftsis, S., Tsiripidis, I., & Karagiannakidou, V. Biodiversity and Conservation, 18(7):1765 – 1780, 2009. Cited by: 16
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The establishment of a network of reserves is of fundamental importance to the loss of biodiversity. Seven different area selection methods for the establishment of a reserve network were applied in the present study: (a) 5% cut-off value of the grid cells with the highest species richness or conservation value, (b) complementarity analysis using as criteria species richness or conservation value or rarest species richness, and (c) mixed complementarity analysis using as criteria species richness or conservation value. These methods were applied in the orchid taxa of east Macedonia. The conservation values of taxa were estimated on the basis of regional rarity, broad-scale rarity, and species specialization. The spatial overlap between the resulting networks and the Natura 2000 network of the study area was assessed. Furthermore, the efficiency of the latter network to protect the orchid taxa of the study area was examined. Our results suggest that: (a) a multiscale estimation of rarity is necessary for the unbiased estimation of species conservation values; (b) species specialization adds valuable ecological information to the assessment of taxa conservation values; (c) complementarity and mixed complementarity analyses on species richness or conservation value safeguard all the taxa of the region; (d) complementarity analysis on the basis of the richness of the rarest species safeguards all the rarest taxa, but not the total number of the remaining taxa; (e) the 5% cut-off value on species richness or conservation value fails to protect all the taxa of the region, including a large number of the rarest taxa; and (f) the Natura 2000 network, despite its large coverage in the study area, fails to safeguard all the taxa, including some of the rarest. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
@ARTICLE{Tsiftsis20091765,
	author = {Tsiftsis, Spyros and Tsiripidis, Ioannis and Karagiannakidou, Vasiliki},
	title = {Identifying areas of high importance for orchid conservation in east Macedonia (NE Greece)},
	year = {2009},
	journal = {Biodiversity and Conservation},
	volume = {18},
	number = {7},
	pages = {1765 – 1780},
	doi = {10.1007/s10531-008-9557-3},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-67649201142&doi=10.1007%2fs10531-008-9557-3&partnerID=40&md5=ee9f5df0468f34ba8c736b50179b53cc},
	affiliations = {Department of Botany, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece},
	abstract = {The establishment of a network of reserves is of fundamental importance to the loss of biodiversity. Seven different area selection methods for the establishment of a reserve network were applied in the present study: (a) 5% cut-off value of the grid cells with the highest species richness or conservation value, (b) complementarity analysis using as criteria species richness or conservation value or rarest species richness, and (c) mixed complementarity analysis using as criteria species richness or conservation value. These methods were applied in the orchid taxa of east Macedonia. The conservation values of taxa were estimated on the basis of regional rarity, broad-scale rarity, and species specialization. The spatial overlap between the resulting networks and the Natura 2000 network of the study area was assessed. Furthermore, the efficiency of the latter network to protect the orchid taxa of the study area was examined. Our results suggest that: (a) a multiscale estimation of rarity is necessary for the unbiased estimation of species conservation values; (b) species specialization adds valuable ecological information to the assessment of taxa conservation values; (c) complementarity and mixed complementarity analyses on species richness or conservation value safeguard all the taxa of the region; (d) complementarity analysis on the basis of the richness of the rarest species safeguards all the rarest taxa, but not the total number of the remaining taxa; (e) the 5% cut-off value on species richness or conservation value fails to protect all the taxa of the region, including a large number of the rarest taxa; and (f) the Natura 2000 network, despite its large coverage in the study area, fails to safeguard all the taxa, including some of the rarest. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.},
	author_keywords = {Area selection methods; Habitat specificity; Natura 2000; Species distribution; Species rarity},
	keywords = {Eurasia; Europe; Greece; Macedonia [Greece]; Southern Europe; Orchidaceae; biodiversity; conservation planning; conservation status; habitat use; monocotyledon; protected area; rarity; specialization; species richness},
	correspondence_address = {I. Tsiripidis; Department of Botany, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; email: tsiripid@bio.auth.gr},
	issn = {15729710},
	coden = {BONSE},
	language = {English},
	abbrev_source_title = {Biodiversity Conserv.},
	type = {Article},
	publication_stage = {Final},
	source = {Scopus},
	note = {Cited by: 16}
}

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