Jorge Soberon
- Mexico Eco-preservation
- Haphazard organization
- Started in 1920
- Big uptake in 1970 & again in 1990
- Usually one person
- Last ten years have seen a 5x increase. (5M to 25M)
- Drivers
- NGO (WWF, World Conservation, Nature Conservancy, etc) analysis (BINGO!)
- Multinationals
- Mexican federal gov't.
- 18 major stakeholders, hundreds of smaller ones
- Mexican gov't required cooperation for official results
- Complementary analysis
- Annealing algorithm used
- Pull data from many sources
- Historical data
- Large volume from digital sources (databases, etc)
- Heavy bias is a major issue
- 19 factors used to resolve this bias
- Use the raw data
- Then apply areas with similar ecologies
- Predicts distribution
- Done for 3000 species over 3 years
- Ecoregional analysis
- Four layers of analysis
- Top three multinational
- Protected areas
- Federal
- State
- Municipality
- Private
- Ecoregional assessment
- Surprising results
- Most protected areas are high elevation
- Majority of areas lack protection/management
- Algorithmic weighting difficult
- Based on species count, threatened species, genetic diversity, etc
- The result of negotiation
- Conflict of interest
- Geo analysis shows that many protected areas actually aren't priorities
- 12.9% of high/very high covered by protected areas
- Marine gap analysis
- Similar analysis
- Starved for data in comparison
- Heavily influenced by experts
- For the first time, identification of deep sea areas of importance
- Fresh water gap analysis
- _ Similar analysis - Interesting because the small bodies turned out to be much more important
- Wiki approach
- www.conabio.gob.mx/gap
- Maps & shapefiles