Topic

Biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: Challenges and future perspectives

Highlights

• Focusing only on species vulnerability hotspots for spatial prioritization may increase the extinction risks of rare species.
• The success in biodiversity conservation cannot be measured simply by fulfilling the percentage target but by assessing if the prioritized areas are truly representative of the extant biodiversity.
• The survival of a species will depend upon how effectively two global threats (climate change and anthropogenic pressure) are addressed in the spatial planning and management of future protected areas.

Dr. Nawal Shrestha, a Young Professor at Lanzhou University, China, will give a talk on Biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: Challenges and future perspectives based on his recently published pioneering works.

• Shrestha N., Xu X., Meng J. and Wang Z. (2021) Vulnerabilities of protected lands in the face of climate and human footprint changes. Nature Communications 12: 1632. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21914-w
• Shrestha N., Tiwari A. and Paudel P.K. (In press) Assessing conservation priorities of endemic seed plants in the central Himalaya (Nepal): A complementarity and phylogenetic diversity approach. Biological Conservation

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Biography:

Dr. Nawal Shrestha a Young Professor at Lanzhou University. He obtained his PhD degree in Botany from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, after which he worked at Peking University as a postdoctoral researcher for four years. He is broadly interested in evolutionary biology, macroecology and biodiversity conservation under global changes. He has authored 40 research papers in mainstream journals, including Nature Communications, Global Ecology and Biogeography and Biological Conservation.