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Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds
Protected areas (PAs) are the cornerstones of global biodiversity conservation efforts, but to fulfil this role they must be effective at conserving the ecosystems and species that occur within their boundaries. Adequate monitoring datasets that allow comparing biodiversity between protected and unp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7490714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32929068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18230-0 |
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author | Cazalis, Victor Princé, Karine Mihoub, Jean-Baptiste Kelly, Joseph Butchart, Stuart H. M. Rodrigues, Ana S. L. |
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description | Protected areas (PAs) are the cornerstones of global biodiversity conservation efforts, but to fulfil this role they must be effective at conserving the ecosystems and species that occur within their boundaries. Adequate monitoring datasets that allow comparing biodiversity between protected and unprotected sites are lacking in tropical regions. Here we use the largest citizen science biodiversity dataset – eBird – to quantify the extent to which protected areas in eight tropical forest biodiversity hotspots are effective at retaining bird diversity. We find generally positive effects of protection on the diversity of bird species that are forest-dependent, endemic to the hotspots, or threatened or Near Threatened, but not on overall bird species richness. Furthermore, we show that in most of the hotspots examined this benefit is driven by protected areas preventing both forest loss and degradation. Our results provide evidence that, on average, protected areas contribute measurably to conserving bird species in some of the world’s most diverse and threatened terrestrial ecosystems. |
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spelling | pubmed-74907142020-10-01 Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds Cazalis, Victor Princé, Karine Mihoub, Jean-Baptiste Kelly, Joseph Butchart, Stuart H. M. Rodrigues, Ana S. L. Nat Commun Article Protected areas (PAs) are the cornerstones of global biodiversity conservation efforts, but to fulfil this role they must be effective at conserving the ecosystems and species that occur within their boundaries. Adequate monitoring datasets that allow comparing biodiversity between protected and unprotected sites are lacking in tropical regions. Here we use the largest citizen science biodiversity dataset – eBird – to quantify the extent to which protected areas in eight tropical forest biodiversity hotspots are effective at retaining bird diversity. We find generally positive effects of protection on the diversity of bird species that are forest-dependent, endemic to the hotspots, or threatened or Near Threatened, but not on overall bird species richness. Furthermore, we show that in most of the hotspots examined this benefit is driven by protected areas preventing both forest loss and degradation. Our results provide evidence that, on average, protected areas contribute measurably to conserving bird species in some of the world’s most diverse and threatened terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7490714/ /pubmed/32929068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18230-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Cazalis, Victor Princé, Karine Mihoub, Jean-Baptiste Kelly, Joseph Butchart, Stuart H. M. Rodrigues, Ana S. L. Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds |
title | Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds |
title_full | Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds |
title_fullStr | Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds |
title_full_unstemmed | Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds |
title_short | Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds |
title_sort | effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7490714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32929068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18230-0 |
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