Management effectiveness reflects three main themes in protected area management, these themes are: 1. design issues relating to both individual sites and protected area system (context, planning); 2. adequacy and appropriateness of management system processes (input, process assessment); 3. and delivery of protected area objectives including conservation of values (outputs, outcomes assessment).
A rate equation based on the conservation of the value of money can also be considered as a basic concept.
The conservation of these values requires evidence-based policy formulation and management strategies that address societal goals such as those set by the United Nations (2012).
Our sample size for this particular comparison is small, but it is worth noting that from the point of view of conservation, the value of 45 meters can be considered a conservative minimum estimate.
In an ideal world, we would have direct assessments of the viability of all species in biodiversity samples, and could use this to inform our estimates of conservation value of different land-uses.
Finally, without identifying rare species, it would not be possible to understand the sensitivity of patterns of conservation value to differences in data analysis.
Overall, the removal of occasional species consistently increased estimates of the conservation value of primary forest (Figure 1a and 1b) while reducing estimates of the conservation value of both secondary forests and Eucalyptus plantations (Figure 1c f).
By sequentially removing different abundance classes of occasional species, we test the hypothesis that occasional species can significantly decrease estimates of the conservation value of primary forests (or, conversely, increase the estimated conservation value of modified land-uses).
Its stages include development of an ecologically based model of conservation value, data pre-processing, spatial prioritization analysis, and interpretation of results for conservation action.
