However, there exists no broad-scale information about the spatial distribution of its remnants that could guide conservation actions, especially when systematic biodiversity data are not available.
This approach partly reflects a unique Australian experience including the fact that extensive habitat conversion had only begun relatively recently, leaving much greater scope for systematic biodiversity conservation compared to Asia, Europe, or even North America (Margules 1989).
Now it is expanding again, opening six small replicas of islands in south-east Asia – a species-rich and diverse region but one also undergoing systematic devastation of its biodiversity from hunting and destruction of habitats.
Extending curation to specimen-based character data may secure research collections to play an appropriate key role in current and future research in systematic biology and thus in biodiversity assessment and analysis.
The Hawaiian marine algae, although not completely characterized, have received far more attention through systematic study and large-scale biodiversity inventory efforts [ 1- 3] than have the non-marine algae that occupy such diverse habitats as streams, ponds, lakes, ditches, agricultural fields, cave and lava tube walls, wet walls, terrestrial and subaerial surfaces, and high elevation bogs.
Since the early 1980s, there has been much attention on developing systematic quantitative methods that use empirical biodiversity data and economic considerations to select a set of sites for biodiversity conservation.
Systematic conservation planning can integrate both biodiversity and ecosystem services as conservation targets, and hence address the challenge to operationalize ecosystem services as an anthropocentric argument for conservation.
Although climatic change is believed to be among the most powerful factors shaping future biodiversity in Europe [29], systematic monitoring of impacts is not currently recognised within the established suites of indicators [6] [8].
A broad, overarching theory would provide both the coherence and scaffolding on which to assemble and link the many entities of biodiversity information molecular, physiological, morphological, systematic, ecological, phylogenetic, and spatial.
Systematic planning, using algorithm tools, can improve biodiversity representation in 'no-take' zones in a marine park while reducing costs of meeting conservation targets.
The systematic conservation planning literature invariably assumes that the biodiversity features being preserved in sites do not change through time.
