TOP-DOWN VS. BOTTOM UP? WORKING TOWARDS CONSENSUSON SYSTEMATIC PROTECTED AREAS PLANNING IN ONTARIO14. Please list any publications (including internal reports, grey literature, conference proceedings andpeer-reviewed articles) that have arisen from the project.Peer Reviewed articles:Wiersma, Y.F. and D.L. Urban. 2005. Beta-diversity and nature reserve system design: a case studyfrom the Yukon, Canada. Conservation Biology 19: 1262-1272.Wiersma, Y.F., and T.D. Nudds, 2006. Conservation targets for viable species assemblages in Canada:Are percentage targets appropriate? Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 4555-4567.Conference Proceedings:Nudds, T.D. and Y.F. Wiersma. 2004. Back to the future: designing protected areas using data onhistorical species distributions. Pp. 141-149. In: Rehbein, C.K., J.G. Nelson, T.J. Beechey andR.J. Payne. (Eds.) Parks and Protected Areas Research in Ontario, 2004: Planning NorthernParks and Protected Areas. Proceedings of the Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PRFO)Annual General Meeting, May 4-6, 2004, Lakehead University. Parks Research Forum ofOntario (PRFO), University of Waterloo: Waterloo, ON.Wiersma, Y.F., and T.D. Nudds. 2003. On the fraction of land needed for protected areas. Chapter 7. In:Munro, N.W.P., P. Dearden, T.B. Herman, K. Beazley and S. Bondrup-Nielson. (Eds.) MakingEcosystem Based Management Work. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference onScience and Management of Protected Areas, CD-ROM Proceedings.Technical reports:Wiersma, Y.F. 2002. Identifying representation goals for Yukon protected areas: a coarse-filter analysisfor the southeast Yukon. Report for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – YukonChapter, Whitehorse, Yukon, July 2002.Conference Presentations:Nudds, T.D., and Y.F. Wiersma. 2004. Back to the future: protected areas planning in Ontario. ParksResearch Forum of Ontario (PRFO): Planning Northern Parks and Protected Areas. May 4-6,2004. Lakehead University, Ontario.Wiersma, Y.F., and T.D. Nudds. 2003a. Is “Is 12% enough?” the right question? Parks Research Forumof Ontario (PRFO): Protected Areas and Watershed Management. May 8-10, 2003. University ofWestern Ontario, Ontario.Wiersma, Y.F., and T.D. Nudds. 2003b. “Is 12% enough?” is the wrong question: testing hypothesesabout representation requirements for mammals in southeastern Canada. Science andManagement of Protected Areas Association Conference May 11-16, 2003. University ofVictoria, British Columbia.Wiersma, Y.F., and T.D. Nudds. 2005. The effect of spatial scale on reserve design in Canada.Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 6-12, 2005. Montréal, Québec.Wiersma, Y.F. T.D. Nudds, and D.L. Urban. 2005. Beta diversity and reserve design. US-InternationalAssociation for Landscape Ecology. March 12-16, 2005. Syracuse, New York.Poster presentations:Wiersma, Y.F. and D.L. Urban. 2004. Beta-diversity and protected areas in the Yukon. CanadianSociety of Landscape Ecology and Management. August 26-27, 2004. Wilfred LaurierUniversity, Ontario.28 | P a g e
SUMMARY OF THE PARKS RESEARCH FORUM OF ONTARIO (PRFO)STATE OF THE ART PROTECTED AREAS DESIGN WORKSHOP, 200615. Please identify any limitations you feel you have encountered in your specific exercise of identifyingrepresentative protected areas.1. Data has not been ground-truthed and is limited to “extent of occurrence” rather than “area ofoccupancy”, and thus there is uncertainty about data accuracy.2. Complete data on existing protected areas is difficult to obtain, polygon GIS files for most protectedareas was not available.3. Data was limited to mammals, thus representative network may not be adequate for other species orfeatures.4. Analysis is very coarse-scale.16. Please describe any planned refinements to further work on the project, or on related projects.1. Use data from other taxonomic groups (e.g., birds, trees, etc.).2. Work within mammal provinces or smaller ecologically-defined regions and incorporate more finescaledata to refine the delineation of representative protected areas networks.29 | P a g e
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