Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Gray, Claudia L ^a,g   Hill, Samantha L L ^b,c   Newbold, Tim ^b,h   Hudson, Lawrence N ^c   Boïrger, Luca ^d   Contu, Sara ^c   Hoskins, Andrew J ^e   Ferrier, Simon ^e   Purvis, Andy ^c,f   Scharlemann, Jorn P W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE; NICHE; PROTECTED AREA; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DATA BASE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND USE; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES;

EID: 84979986155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12306     Document Type: Article

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