Recent increases in human pressure and forest loss threaten many Natural World Heritage Sites

Biological Conservation

Volumn 206, Issue , 2017, Pages 47-55

  Allan, James R ^a   Venter, Oscar ^b   Maxwell, Sean ^a   Bertzky, Bastian ^c,d   Jones, Kendall ^a   Shi, Yichuan ^c,e   Watson, James E M ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c IUCN   (Switzerland)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Cumulative threat mapping; Forest loss; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Human Footprint; Monitoring; World Heritage

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

CANADA; EUROPE; MANA POOLS NATIONAL PARK; MASHONALAND WEST; SABARAGAMUWA; SINHARAJA FOREST RESERVE; SRI LANKA; WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 85007148066     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.12.011     Document Type: Article

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