Effectiveness of protected areas for bird conservation depends on guild.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Protected areas are key conservation tools intended to increase biodiversity and reduce extinction risks of species and populations. However, the degree to which protected areas achieve their conservation goals is generally unknown for many protected areas worldwide. We assess the effect of protected areas on the abundance of 196 common, resident bird species. If protected areas were beneficial to avian biodiversity, we expect landscapes with a higher proportion of protected areas will have higher densities of species compared to landscapes with no protection.

Location

Greater Gauteng region, South Africa.

Methods

We analysed bird survey data collected over regular grid cells across the study area. We estimated bird abundance in relation to the proportion of a gri

SUBMITTER: Duckworth GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7163781 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature