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journal contribution
posted on 2024-06-18, 12:11authored byAL Smith, H Kujala, JJ Lahoz-Monfort, LK Guja, EL Burns, R Nathan, E Alacs, Philip BartonPhilip Barton, S Bau, Don DriscollDon Driscoll, PE Lentini, A Mortelliti, R Rowe, YM Buckley
Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Species’ movements affect their response to environmental change but movement knowledge is often highly uncertain. We now have well-established methods to integrate movement knowledge into conservation practice but still lack a framework to deal with uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions. We provide a framework that distinguishes two dimensions of species’ movement that are heavily influenced by uncertainty: knowledge about movement and relevance of movement to environmental decisions. Management decisions can be informed by their position in this knowledge-relevance space. We then outline a framework to support decisions around (1) increasing understanding of the relevance of movement knowledge, (2) increasing robustness of decisions to uncertainties and (3) improving knowledge on species’ movement. Our decision-support framework provides guidance for managing movement-related uncertainty in systematic conservation planning, agri-environment schemes, habitat restoration and international biodiversity policy. It caters to different resource levels (time and funding) so that species’ movement knowledge can be more effectively integrated into environmental decisions.