spatially and financially explicit population viability analysis of maculinea alcon in the netherlands空间和经济上明确人口maculinea爱尔康在荷兰的可行性分析.pdfVIP

Spatially and Financially Explicit Population Viability Analysis of Maculinea alcon in The Netherlands 1 2,3 1 Viktoriia Radchuk *, Michiel F. WallisDeVries , Nicolas Schtickzelle ´ 1 Biodiversity Research Centre, Earth Life Institute, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2 De Vlinderstichting/Dutch Butterfly Conservation, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 3 Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Abstract Background: The conservation of species structured in metapopulations involves an important dilemma of resource allocation: should investments be directed at restoring/enlarging habitat patches or increasing connectivity. This is still an open question for Maculinea species despite they are among the best studied and emblematic butterfly species, because none of the population dynamics models developed so far included dispersal. Methodology/Principal Findings: We developed the first spatially and financially explicit Population Viability Analysis model for Maculinea alcon, using field data from The Netherlands. Implemented using the RAMAS/GIS platform, the model incorporated both local (contest density dependence, environmental and demographic stochasticities), and regional population dynamics (dispersal rates between habitat patches). We selected four habitat patch networks, contrasting in several basic features (number of habitat patches, their quality, connectivity, and occupancy rate) to test how these features are affecting the ability to enhance population viability of four basic management options, designed to inc