Publication Date:
2001-01-06
Description:
We assessed the impacts of anthropogenic threats on 93 protected areas in 22 tropical countries to test the hypothesis that parks are an effective means to protect tropical biodiversity. We found that the majority of parks are successful at stopping land clearing, and to a lesser degree effective at mitigating logging, hunting, fire, and grazing. Park effectiveness correlates with basic management activities such as enforcement, boundary demarcation, and direct compensation to local communities, suggesting that even modest increases in funding would directly increase the ability of parks to protect tropical biodiversity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bruner, A G -- Gullison, R E -- Rice, R E -- da Fonseca, G A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Jan 5;291(5501):125-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at Conservation International, 2501 M Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20037, USA. a.bruner@conservation.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11141563" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Conservation of Natural Resources
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*Ecosystem
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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*Tropical Climate
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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