Frontiers of protected areas versus forest exploitation: Assessing habitat network functionality in 16 case study regions globally.

ABSTRACT: Exploitation of natural forests forms expanding frontiers. Simultaneously, protected area frontiers aim at maintaining functional habitat networks. To assess net effects of these frontiers, we examined 16 case study areas on five continents. We (1) mapped protected area instruments, (2) assessed their effectiveness, (3) mapped policy implementation tools, and (4) effects on protected areas originating from their surroundings. Results are given as follows: (1) conservation instruments covered 3-77%, (2) effectiveness of habitat networks depended on representativeness, habitat quality, functional connectivity, resource extraction in protected areas, time for landscape restoration, "paper parks", "fortress conservation", and data access, (3) regulatory policy instruments dominated over econom

SUBMITTER: Angelstam P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8563882 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature