Identifying freshwater priority areas for cross-taxa interactions
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Information about biotic interactions (e.g. competition, predation, parasitism, diseases, mutualism, allelopathy) is fundamental to better understand species distribution and abundance, ecosystem functioning, and ultimately guide conservation efforts. However, conservation planning often overlooks these important interactions. Here, we aim to demonstrate a new framework to include biotic interactions into Marxan. For that, we use freshwater mussels and fish interaction (as mussels rely on fishes to complete their life cycle) in the Douro River basin (Iberian Peninsula) as a case study. While doing that, we also test the importance of including biotic interactions into conservation planning exercises, by running spatial prioritisation analysis considering either: 1) only the target species (freshwater mussels); 2) freshwater mussels and their obligatory hosts (freshwater fishes); 3) freshwater mussels, fishes and their interactions. With this framework we found that biotic interactions tend to be underrepresented when the data on both freshwater mussels and fishes is not simultaneously included in the spatial prioritisation. Overall, the priority areas selected across all scenarios are mostly located in the western part of the Douro River basin, where most freshwater mussels and fishes still occur. Given the low overlap of priority areas identified here and the current Natura 2000 network, our approach may be useful for establishing (or enlarging) protected areas, especially in light of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Also, this work may provide guidance for future habitat restoration and management of main threats to freshwater biodiversity.
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- Nogueira, J. G., Lopes-Lima, M., Beja, P., Filipe, A. F., Froufe, E., Gonçalves, D. V., da Silva, J. P., Sousa, R., Teixeira, A., Varandas, S., & Hermoso, V.
- Affiliations
- Universidade do Porto (PT)
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (PT)
- University of Minho (PT)
- Universidade Politécnica de Bragança (PT)
- University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (PT)
- Griffith University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Nogueira, Joana Garrido
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science of The Total Environment
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-03
- Volume
- 864
- Pages
- 161073
- ISSN
- 0048-9697 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4312211082
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4
- FWCI
- 1.46
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- The Science of The Total Environment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RepositóriUM (Universidade do Minho) (submittedVersion)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2020.03872, 2020.04637, EMERGIA20_00135, PTDC/AAGMAA/2261/2014 – POCI-01-0145-FEDER-356016824)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Keywords
- species interactions, spatial prioritization, conservation planning, freshwater mussels, freshwater fish, Marxan, priority areas, Douro River basin, Natura 2000, protected area planning, freshwater biodiversity conservation, EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Fishes, Fresh Water, Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Rivers
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