PARENT SESSION
Symposium 7: Multi-scale integration for ecological sustainability: Approaches and applications
Organized by: R Wang and Jianguo(Jack) Liu
Tuesday, August 9, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Meeting Room 517 A, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal

Sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services from local to global scales.

Daily, Gretchen^*,1, ¹ Dept. Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA

ABSTRACT- Traditional reserve-based approaches to conservation are essential, but severely limited in scope. Alone, reserve networks are likely to protect only a tiny fraction of biodiversity and ecosystem services. For conservation to have enduring success, it must become financially attractive and commonplace in human-dominated areas. I will present a framework for characterizing and mapping the potential conservation values - for both biodiversity and ecosystem services - of a region, and for integrating these values into decision-making. I will illustrate the framework using a series of case studies from around the world. Finally, I will suggest ways of replicating and scaling up models of success, in which innovative conservation finance mechanisms and institutions have aligned short-term economic incentives with long-term conservation.

Key words: countryside biogeography, human-dominated ecosystems, conservation finance