Protection Reduces Loss of Natural Land-Cover at Sites of Conservation Importance across Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Beresford, Alison E ^a   Eshiamwata, George W ^b,g   Donald, Paul F ^a   Balmford, Andrew ^c   Bertzky, Bastian ^d   Brink, Andreas B ^e   Fishpool, Lincoln D C ^f   Mayaux, Philippe ^e   Phalan, Ben ^c   Simonetti, Dario ^e   Buchanan, Graeme M ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b BirdLife Africa Partnership Secretariat   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^g EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

AFRICA; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

AVES;

EID: 84878447926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065370     Document Type: Article

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