Title
Surviving in Unprotected Landscapes: Endemic Amphibians of the Northern Andes and Human Threats.
Author(s)
Valenzuela, Leonor; Osorio, Daniel; Simonetti, Javier
Published
2017
Abstract
Protected areas are important tools for conserving biological diversity. In countries with both high species and beta diversity these areas have proven insufficient. To conserve biodiversity outside protected areas thus emerges as a need. In the northern Andes 47 percent of the endemic species of amphibians are not or scarcely represented in parks and reserves. An assessment of the likelihood of relying on unprotected landscapes to conserve them suggests that it would be feasible. Unprotected regions holding overlapping distributions of endemic species exhibit a human footprint as low as that determined for protected areas. To rely on unprotected landscapes seems an opportunity to safeguard the high richness of amphibians including the unique assemblage of evolutionary different
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