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Changes in the human footprint in and around Indonesia’s terrestrial national parks between 2012 and 2017 [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The human footprint (HF) was developed to measure of the impact of human activities on the environment. The human footprint has been found to be closely related to the vulnerability of protected areas around the world.
Asri A. Dwiyahreni +5 more
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Land, 2022 The increase in ecological risks caused by human activities has become a global concern in recent years. The Landscape Ecological Risk Index based on the theory of landscape ecology is more suitable for assessing large-scale ecological risks.
Zhi Qu +5 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 Protected areas (PAs) are the critical societal tool to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services (ESs), but human disturbances frequently threaten them.
Ting Hua +4 more
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High Resolution Spatial Mapping of Human Footprint across Antarctica and Its Implications for the Strategic Conservation of Avifauna. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Human footprint models allow visualization of human spatial pressure across the globe. Up until now, Antarctica has been omitted from global footprint models, due possibly to the lack of a permanent human population and poor accessibility to necessary ...
Luis R Pertierra +3 more
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Threatened birds, climate change, and human footprint: protected areas network in Neotropical grassland hotspot [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022 Climate change (CC) and human footprint (HF) shape species spatial patterns and may affect the effectiveness of Protected Areas (PAs) network. Spatial patterns of threatened bird species of Subtropical–temperate hotspots in Southeastern South American ...
JUAN A. SARQUIS +3 more
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The Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve Is Partially Effective in Mitigating Human Pressures
Land, 2021 Protected areas play significant roles in protecting biodiversity by mitigating human activities. As an indicator for human activities, the human footprint (HF) can be used to assess the effectiveness of protected areas. We developed a HF dataset for the
Linyi Tan, Guancheng Guo, Shicheng Li
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Effectiveness of the Natura 2000 network for freshwater fish conservation in a Mediterranean region
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Protected areas (PAs) are the cornerstones of global biodiversity conservation efforts, but to fulfil this role they must be effective at conserving both habitat and species.
Anna Gavioli +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Wilderness plays a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, and its preservation represents a pivotal objective emphasized in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Nonetheless, wilderness frequently faces threats from the escalating impact
Li Wang +4 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Roads are an overwhelming component of the global human footprint and their absence helps identify intact areas with high ecological value. Road‐free areas are decreasing globally, making accurate estimation of their location and size of great importance.
Lucy G. Poley +3 more
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Conservation Letters, 2022 The establishment of protected areas (PAs) is a central strategy for global biodiversity conservation. While the role of PAs in protecting habitat has been highlighted, their effectiveness at protecting mammal communities remains unclear.
Cheng Chen +37 more
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