Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001891
• Publication Date: 2014-06-24T20:19:11Z
• Authors: Oscar Venter; Richard A. Fuller; Daniel B. Segan; Josie Carwardine; Thomas Brooks; Stuart H. M. Butc...; Moreno Di Marco; Takuya Iwamura; Liana Joseph; Damien O'Grady; Hugh P. Possingham; Carlo Rondinini; Robert J. Smith; Michelle Venter; James E. M. Watson
• Keywords: Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; 2800 Neuroscience; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Conservation of Natural Resources; Internationality; 1300 Biochemistry; QH301-705.5; Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology; Genetics and Molecular Biology; QH75; Protected Areas; 333; Environmental science; 1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management; 11. Sustainability; QH541; Animals; Convention on Biological Diversity; 14. Life underwater; Biology (General); Agroforestry; Environmental resource management; Biology; Nature and Landscape Conservation; QL; Global and Planetary Change; Ecology; Endangered Species; 2400 Immunology and Microbiology; Biodiversity; 15. Life on land; Protected area; Threatened species; Habitat; 2700 Medicine; 13. Climate action; FOS: Biological sciences; Vertebrates; Environmental Science; Physical Sciences; Species Richness; Habitat Fragmentation; Drivers and Impacts of Tropical Deforestation; Research Article

Meeting international targets for expanding protected areas could simultaneously contribute to species conservation, but only if the distribution of threatened informs future establishment areas.