RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Habitat Protection Indexes - new monitoring measures for the conservation of coastal and marine habitats
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2021.06.09.447318
DO 10.1101/2021.06.09.447318
A1 Joy A. Kumagai
A1 Fabio Favoretto
A1 Sara Pruckner
A1 Alex D. Rogers
A1 Lauren V. Weatherdon
A1 Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
A1 Aidin Niamir
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/06/10/2021.06.09.447318.abstract
AB A worldwide call to implement habitat protection aims to halt biodiversity loss. To monitor the extent of coastal and marine habitats within protected areas (PAs) in a standardized, open source, and reproducible way, we constructed the Local and the Global Habitat Protection Indexes (LHPI and GHPI, respectively). The LHPI pinpoints the jurisdictions with the greatest opportunity to expand their own PAs, while the GHPI showcases which jurisdictions contribute the most in area to the protection of these habitats globally. Jurisdictions were evaluated to understand which have the highest opportunity to contribute globally to the protection of habitats by meeting a target of 30% coverage of PAs with Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ) having the greatest opportunity to do so. While we focus on marine and coastal habitats, our workflow can be extended to terrestrial and freshwater habitats. These indexes are useful to monitor aspects of Sustainable Development Goal 14 and the emerging post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, to understand the current status of international cooperation on coastal and marine habitats conservation.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.