Abstract:

There is considerable discussion about the relative importance of the integration of biodiversity features and economic cost in the conservation planning.Trying to overcome the problem,we identified priority areas for amphibian and reptile biodiversity within the Yangtze Basin using the idea of Systematic Conservation Plan.We applied the conservation planning tool,MARXAN,to summarize 57 amphibian and 85 reptile values which were formulated by whether they are endangered or domestic species as five types.The GDP of the counties in research area have been used to simulate 〖JP2〗the conservation cost for the identification〖JP〗 of the areas with high biodiversity representation and low economic cost. In accordance with iterative computing,we obtained 9 conservation priority areas including 121 counties.Our suggestion is to establish conservation network within every priority area we picked out.Meanwhile,the content about amphibians and reptiles should be highlighted in daily patrol.〖