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标题：Identifying key biodiversity areas in Turkey: a multi-taxon approach
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作者：Güven Eken ; Süreyya Isfendiyaroğlu ; Can Yeniyurt 等
期刊名称：Ecosystems and People
印刷版ISSN：2639-5908
电子版ISSN：2639-5916
出版年度：2016
卷号：12
期号：3
页码：181-190
DOI：10.1080/21513732.2016.1182949
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：Key biodiversity areas (KBAs) are sites of global importance for biodiversity conservation.Their selection is based on standard criteria applied through a bottom-up, iterative processinvolving local stakeholders. This article presents the results of a study that applied the KBAmethodology in Turkey. The KBA method uses four criteria: (1) globally threatened species; (2)restricted-range species; (3) congregations of species that concentrate at particular sitesduring some stage in their life cycle; and (4) biome-restricted species assemblages. InTurkey, we applied these criteria to 10,214 species of eight taxonomic groups: plants,dragonflies, butterflies, freshwater fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. We identified 313 KBAs in Turkey, 303 of which trigger the KBA criteria for one or more taxonomicgroups at the global scale. The remaining 10 sites trigger the KBA criteria at the regional scaleonly. These 303 globally important KBAs in Turkey cover 20,456,884 hectares, 26% of thecountry. Turkey’s natural landscapes, holding globally important biodiversity, are underimmense threat and declining rapidly, both in quality and quantity. The nationwide threatassessment of KBAs revealed that dams, irrigation and drainage projects (i.e. water policies)form the main threat to Turkey’s biodiversity. Irrigation and drainage projects affect 225 KBAsand dams have an effect on at least 185 sites. KBAs raise attractive possibilities as being coreareas where ecologically responsible governance models can be demonstrated, building onscientific and indigenous knowledge.
关键词：key biodiversity area;protected area;turkey;species conservation;waterpolicies;dam;hydro-electricpower plant