Conservation priorities when species interact: the Noah's Ark metaphor revisited

Pierre Courtois; Charles Figuieres; Chloé Mulier

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106073

Conservation priorities when species interact: the Noah's Ark metaphor revisited

PLoS One. 2014 Sep 2;9(9):e106073. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106073. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Pierre Courtois¹, Charles Figuieres¹, Chloé Mulier¹

Affiliation

¹ INRA-LAMETA, Montpellier, France.

Abstract

This note incorporates ecological interactions into the Noah's Ark problem. In doing so, we arrive at a general model for ranking in situ conservation projects accounting for species interrelations and provide an operational cost-effectiveness method for the selection of best preserving diversity projects under a limited budget constraint.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Conservation of Natural Resources*
Ecosystem
Models, Theoretical
Species Specificity

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the ONEMA program 2013-2015. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.