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Biodiversity and Conservation Location: B002 Session Chair: Paulo Santos, Monash University | |
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Conservation increases the resilience of coupled human and natural systems: experimental evidence from fish conservation zones in Laos Monash University, Australia Despite global commitments to increase the area under conservation, rigorous evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of conservation areas is still lacking. This study presents experimental evidence on the impact of fish conservation zones on fish diversity and food security in a tropical freshwater ecosystem (the Xe Banghieng River, Lao PDR). We show that no-take areas increase ecosystem resilience as reflected in an increase in fish diversity (measured by both species and functional richness) four years after the impact of major floods. These improvements are achieved without compromising food security and are driven by increases in fish diversity across the distribution of extinction risk, including species with very low reproductive rates as well as those classified as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. Our results support the use of no-take areas in freshwater ecosystems as an effective conservation strategy. | |