I think that the spatial tools can show you the actual state of the conservation and healthy state of each ecosystem. You can see it through satellite images in a temporal scale. Also, if you georeference the records of a determinate specie, or an ecosystem, after you can visualizate it with a interpolation, and geostadistics like a surface model. Usually, the records of a specie have collected date, and you can know the health state of each specie in a determinated place.

Also, geostadistics allow create models of the state of a specie or ecosystem. All of that you can do it with spatial tools.

Geospatial technology helps in resource management in following ways:

* As pointed out Ruben in determinig the status of natural resources (level of degradation, depletion and potential);

* It helps as information-base in decision making in the process of planning for natural resources conservation, restoration etc.;

* Finally, it helps in monitoring progress of the plan and management of resources.

Natural resource management is not confined only to biodiversity or wildlife. It includes all elements necessary for maintaining life on the planet and sustainable use of resources. For example, transport planning such that it does not disturb wildlife or planning and management to control soil erosion, noise and air pollution also come under environmental management. In fact, geospatial tools developed in response decision support system in environmental planning and management.

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Las herramientas espaciales tambien nos permiten determinar la composicion de especies vegetales de una determinada comunidad vegetal, en mi caso particular la composicion de especies forestales para la elaboracion de programas de manejo forestal.

You can find a good example in the paper:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/216525400_GIS_AND_THE_ANALYTIC_HIERARCHY_PROCESS_FOR_REGIONAL_LANDFILL_SITE_SELECTION_IN_TRANSITIONAL_COUNTRIES_A_CASE_STUDY_FROM_SERBIA

ArcGIS spatial, and many other tools, joined with one of the most powerful multicriteria decision analysis (AHP) were used in Landfill site selection. That could be useul for you...

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Article GIS and the analytic hierarchy process for regional landfill...

Muchas gracias ratko