Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

By W. Laurance, Diana Carolina Machado Useche, J. Rendeiro, Margareta Kalka, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Sean Sloan, S. Laurance, M. Campbell, K. Abernethy, Patrícia Alvarez and 206 more. Nature, 2012

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Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania (2014, background): “Forest reserves in Tanzania mirror the global trend of biodiversity impoverishment within tropical forest protected areas (Laurance et al., 2012) as they are generally not adequately protected (e.g. Rovero et al., 2012).”
A global assessment of the social and conservation outcomes of protected areas (2016, neutral): “Such self-reported data can, however, be used reliably to assess the outcomes of protected areas (Hockings 2003; Laurance et al. 2012).”
Increasing human dominance of tropical forests (2015, background): “Since even structurally intact forests are hunted, including in protected areas (30), threats are global.”
Will climate change promote future invasions? (2013, background): “Habitat degradation through deforestation was also projected to increase in tropical regions (Laurance et al., 2012).”
CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change (2015, background): “…historically, whereas faunal communities tend to remain more intact in unfragmented forests such as Yasuni (Ecuador), Rabi (Gabon), and Scotty Creek (Canada) (Turner & T Corlett, 1996; LaFrankie et al., 2005; Laurance et al., 2012; Harrison et al., 2013;W.F. Laurance, personal communication).”