Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Venter, Oscar ^a,b,c   Sanderson, Eric W ^d   Magrach, Ainhoa ^e,f   Allan, James R ^b   Beher, Jutta ^b   Jones, Kendall R ^b   Possingham, Hugh P ^b,g   Laurance, William F ^c   Wood, Peter ^c   Fekete, Balázs M ^h   Levy, Marc A ⁱ   Watson, James E M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

ⁱ Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LAND USE; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PRESSURE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERNATIONALITY; PRESSURE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84984638802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12558     Document Type: Article

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