Title
Conservation status and priorities of amphibians in the department of Quindío, Colombia
Author(s)
Gómez-Hoyos, D. A. ;Ríos-Franco, C. A.;;Vanegas-Guerrero, J. ;Velasco, J. A. ;González-Maya, J. F.
Published
2017
Publisher
Arxius de Miscellània Zoològica
Abstract
Conservation status and priorities of amphibians from the Quindio Department, Colombia - We reviewed the conservation status and priorities for amphibians from the Quindio region of Colombia, with the purpose of proposing conservation actions. We modeled the potential distribution of threatened species using the maximum entropy algorithm in MaxEnt and evaluated representability in the Departmental System of Protected Areas for Quindio (Spanish acronym: SIDAPQ). We prioritized areas for amphibian conservation using the algorithm ILV4 adjacency in ConsNet. We recorded 45 species, 24.4% of which are included in threatened categories on the IUCN Red List. Over 50% of the distribution and records of the threatened amphibians occurred inside the SIDAPQ. Prioritized areas to achieve representation goals of 10%, 20% and 30% of amphibian distribution are highly fragmented and have only approximately 30% of prioritized distribution in the SIDAPQ. Considering this scenario we propose a conservation strategy on the landscape level that includes agroecosystems, maintaining their heterogeneity and eliminating or mitigating threat factors. Status and conservation priorities of amphibians in the department of Quindío, Colombia - In this article we present an evaluation of the status and conservation priorities of amphibians in Quindío with the objective of proposing actions for their conservation. We generated a list of amphibian species in the department, modeled the potential distribution of threatened species with the MaxEnt maximum entropy algorithm and evaluated their representativeness in the Departmental System of Protected Areas of Quindío (SIDAPQ). In addition, we prioritized areas for amphibian conservation with ConsNet's ILV4 adjacency algorithm. We recorded 45 amphibian species, 24.4% of which are included in some category of threat in the IUCN Red List. Threatened amphibians had a distribution and records greater than 50% within the SIDAPQ. The areas prioritized to achieve the 10%, 20% and 30% representativity objectives for amphibian distribution are highly fragmented and have only 30% of the prioritized distribution in the SIDAPQ. Given this scenario, we propose a landscape conservation strategy that includes agroecosystems, trying to maintain their heterogeneity and eliminating or mitigating threat factors.
Keywords
Amphibians;Central Andes;Colombia;Protected Areas;Amfibis;Àrees protegides;Andes centrals;Colòmbia

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