TY - DATA T1 - A side-by-side comparison of the systematic conservation planning for biodiversity and REDD+ carbon payments for climate PY - 2013/09/04 AU - Jonah Busch AU - Hedley S Grantham UR - https://iop.figshare.com/articles/dataset/___A_side_by_side_comparison_of_the_systematic_conservation_planning_for_biodiversity_and_REDD_carbo/1011588 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1011588.v1 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1479413 KW - conservation planning KW - address biodiversity loss KW - redd KW - deforestation KW - strategy KW - conservation planning research KW - biodiversity benefits KW - concept KW - species KW - address climate change KW - Abstract Biodiversity loss KW - Environmental Science N2 - Table A.1.  A side-by-side comparison of the systematic conservation planning for biodiversity and REDD+ carbon payments for climate. Abstract Biodiversity loss and climate change both result from tropical deforestation, yet strategies to address biodiversity loss have focused primarily on protected areas while strategies to address climate change have focused primarily on carbon payments. Conservation planning research has focused largely on where to prioritize protected areas to achieve the greatest representation of species at viable levels. Meanwhile research on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has focused largely on how to design payments to achieve the greatest additional reduction in greenhouse gases relative to baseline rates. This divergence of strategies and research agendas may be attributed to four factors: rare species are more heterogeneously distributed than carbon; species are more difficult to measure and monitor than carbon; species are more sensitive to ecological processes and human disturbance than carbon; and people's value for species diminishes beyond a threshold while their value for carbon storage does not. Conservation planning can achieve greater biodiversity benefits by adopting the concept of additionality from REDD+. REDD+ can achieve greater climate benefits by incorporating spatial prioritization from conservation planning. Climate and biodiversity benefits can best be jointly achieved from tropical forests by targeting the most additional actions to the most important places. These concepts are illustrated using data from the forests of Indonesia. ER -