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- Birds retreating from climate change, deforestation in Honduras cloud forests
- Source: Biotropica
- Author: Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg et al.
- Abstract: Harboring many range-restricted and specialized species, high elevation tropical cloud forests are diverse habitats represented in many protected areas. Despite this, many such areas receive little practical protection from deforestation and land conversion.
- State of the world’s raptors: Distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Authors: Christopher J.W. McClure et al.
- Abstract: Raptors provide critical ecosystem services, yet there is currently no systematic, global synthesis of their conservation status or threats. We review the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List to examine the conservation status, distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations for all 557 raptor species.
- Limited ecosystem recovery from simulated chronic nitrogen deposition
- Source: Ecological Applications
- Author(s): William D. Bowman et al.
- Abstract: The realization that anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition is causing significant environmental change in many ecosystems has led to lower emissions of reactive N and deposition rates in many regions. However, the impacts of N deposition on terrestrial ecosystems can be long lasting, with significant inertia in the return of the biota and biogeochemical processes to baseline levels.
- Disproportionate magnitude of climate change in United States national parks
- Source: Environmental Research Letters
- Author(s): Patrick Gonzalez, Fuyao Wang, Michael Notaro, Daniel J Vimont, John W Williams
- Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change is altering ecological and human systems globally, including in United States (US) national parks, which conserve unique biodiversity and resources. Yet, the magnitude and spatial patterns of climate change across all the parks have been unknown.
- The cost of enforcing a marine protected area to achieve ecological targets for the recovery of fish biomass
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Christopher J. Brown et al.
- Abstract: Protected areas are the primary management tool for conserving ecosystems, yet their intended outcomes may often be compromised by poaching. Consequently, many protected areas are ineffective ‘paper parks’ that contribute little towards conserving ecosystems.
- The extirpation of species outside protected areas
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Author(s): Elizabeth H. Boakes, Richard A. Fuller, Philip J.K. McGowan.
- Abstract: Protected areas (PAs) are fundamental to conservation efforts but they are only part of a successful conservation strategy. We examine biodiversity outside PAs in Sundaland, one of the world’s most biologically degraded regions.
- Defining the balance point between conservation and development
- Publication date: May 2019
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 233
- Author(s): Dexin Tian, Yan Xie, Anthony D. Barnosky, Fuwen Wei
- Abstract: In the face of the current global ecological crisis and the threats it poses to human survival and security, the fundamental solution is to resolve the deep contradiction between conservation and economic development.
- Post-war recovery of the African lion in response to large-scale ecosystem restoration
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Authors: Paola Bouley, Michael Poulos, Rui Branco, Neil H. Carter
- Abstract: We present data from the first, long-term study underway of a recovering population of indigenous, free-ranging Panthera leo in Gorongosa National Park (GNP), Mozambique. GNP is undergoing post-war recovery and large-scale ecological restoration under a 25-year private-governmental partnership – the “Gorongosa Project (GP),” – offering a rare opportunity…
- Mapping threats to wilderness character in the National Wilderness Preservation System
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Authors: James Tricker, Peter Landres
- Abstract: The National Wilderness Preservation System in the United States provides the greatest level of protection for the ecological and social values of lands held in trust for future generations. Although designated wilderness is the cornerstone of the US conservation portfolio, designation alone doesn’t assure the protection of these areas, which are degraded by threats both inside…
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