Image: Figure: 2010 regional tradeoffs
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Two land-use change curves for Panama.
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- © DP Faith
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This figure shows two land-use change curves for Panama (for background and related analyses of these data, see: D. P. Faith, et al., Journal of Biogeography 31, 1207-1217 (2004)). Both curves illustrate how a constant rate of habitat loss (horizontal axis) would imply an increasing rate of biodiversity loss (vertical axis). The lower curve is for a case where the choice of places for conversion is not balanced with conservation needs, and disproportionately targets certain habitat types. The upper curve is for a case where new human-use lands are selected so as to minimize conflict with regional biodiversity conservation.
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