Author(s): Akihiko Koyama; Ryutei Inui; Norio Onikura; Tomoko Minagawa

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Abstract: We extracted important riverine estuaries to conserve threatened crabs from complementary analysis using Marxan in Kyushu, Japan. As the result, 55 of 158 rivers were selected as the candidate sites for conservation. Results comparing basin and land use characteristics suggest that a rivers with high naturalness are important for effective conservation of threatened crabs. Moreover, the classification of the candidates for conservation according to the distributional pattern of crab species indicates that the important habitat for conservation differs in basin characteristics. Therefore, it is considered that actively preserving rivers having high naturalness and the diverse of basin characteristics will be able to effectively maintain species diversity of estuarine crabs.

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Year: 2018