Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead

M Dornelas, JM Chase, NJ Gotelli… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Estimating biodiversity change across the planet in the context of widespread human
modification is a critical challenge. Here, we review how biodiversity has changed in recent …

How effective are protected areas for reducing threats to biodiversity? A systematic review protocol

K Pulido-Chadid, E Virtanen, J Geldmann - Environmental Evidence, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Protected areas (PAs) have become one of the most important
instruments to preserve nature and, when effective, can significantly reduce human pressure …

Global protected areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

C Mi, L Ma, M Yang, X Li, S Meiri, U Roll… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we
collated distributional data for> 14,000 (~ 70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles …

Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change

TF Johnson, AP Beckerman, DZ Childs, TJ Webb… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Biodiversity faces unprecedented threats from rapid global change. Signals of biodiversity
change come from time-series abundance datasets for thousands of species over large …

Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity

JF Brodie, J Mohd-Azlan, C Chen, OR Wearn… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations recently agreed to major expansions of global protected areas
(PAs) to slow biodiversity declines. However, although reserves often reduce habitat loss …

Mixed effectiveness of global protected areas in resisting habitat loss

G Li, C Fang, JEM Watson, S Sun, W Qi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Protected areas are the cornerstones of conservation efforts to mitigate the anthropogenic
pressures driving biodiversity loss. Nations aim to protect 30% of Earth's land and water by …

Protected areas support more species than unprotected areas in Great Britain, but lose them equally rapidly

R Cooke, F Mancini, RJ Boyd, KL Evans, A Shaw… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protected areas are a key conservation tool, yet their effectiveness at maintaining
biodiversity through time is rarely quantified. Here, we assess protected area effectiveness …

Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context

TT Gatiso, L Kulik, M Bachmann, A Bonn, L Bösch… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Protected area (PA) performance is thought to depend on effective conservation
management and favourable socio-economic context. However, increasing evidence of …

[PDF][PDF] Ten key issues for ecological restoration of territorial space

J Peng, D Xu, Z Xu, H Tang, H Jiang… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ten key issues for ecological restoration of territorial space Page 1 PERSPECTIVE National
Science Review 11: nwae176, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwae176 Advance access …

Mixed effects of a national protected area network on terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity

A Santangeli, B Weigel, LH Antão, E Kaarlejärvi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Protected areas are considered fundamental to counter biodiversity loss. However, evidence
for their effectiveness in averting local extinctions remains scarce and taxonomically biased …