Publications by authors named "Loyal Mehrhoff"
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- The conservation community is focusing on recovering species at risk of extinction, particularly in Maui, by implementing climate-resilient recovery plans for 36 native plant species.
- A tailored spatial conservation prioritization (SCP) approach was developed, emphasizing transparency, flexibility, and expert engagement, consisting of generating multiple prioritization solutions and selecting the best based on expert-agreed criteria.
- This method reduced the necessary conservation area by 36% while still ensuring high-quality habitats for species, proving more effective than existing tools like prioritizr by enhancing local recovery planning efforts.
The Hawaiian flora, because of its great isolation, high levels of endemism, known lineages, and high rates of endangerment, offers unique opportunities to explore patterns of endangerment related to phylogeny, ecological and life history traits, and geographic patterns. Nine percent of the native flora of 1159 taxa are already extinct, and 52.5% are at risk (extinct, endangered, vulnerable, or rare).
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