Systematic Conservation Assessment for Most of the Colombian Territory as a Strategy for Effective Biodiversity Conservation
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52864#.VKtBNcnQrzE Author(s) Marcela Portocarrero-Aya * , Germán Corzo , Angélica Diaz-Pulido , María Fernanda González , Magnolia Longo , Lina Mesa , Andrea Paz , Wilson Ramírez , Olga Lucía Hernández-Manrique Affiliation(s) Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Research on Biological Resources, Bogotá, Colombia . ABSTRACT Colombian ecosystems maintain key ecological processes that support thousands of species, including human beings. With the expansion of the country’s population, and the implementation of a government’s development plan based on an economy centred on extraction patterns, the conservation of the...