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On the protection of “protected areas” [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
Tropical moist forests contain the majority of terrestrial species. Human actions destroy between 1 and 2 million km 2 of such forests per decade, with concomitant carbon release into the atmosphere. Within these forests, protected areas are the principle defense against forest loss and species extinctions.
Lucas N, Joppa, Scott R, Loarie, Stuart L, Pimm   +2 more
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Distribution update of water deer (Hydropotes inermis) and prediction of their potential distribution in Northeast China

Scientific Reports, 2023
Human interventions have a great potential of spatially cornering and limiting species, therefore investigating the species distribution is one of the most crucial issues for managing wildlife populations and suggesting robust conservation strategies ...
Zongzhi Li, Romaan Hayat Khattak, Xingzhi Han, Nan Zhang, Jianping Wu, Zhensheng Liu, Liwei Teng   +6 more
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The Effect of Sexes and Seasons on the Morphological Structures of the Ruminant Digestive System of Blue Sheep (Pseudois nayaur)

Animals, 2023
Constant adaptation to environmental changes is required by ruminants to allow them to adapt to different ecological niches and feeding habits. In addition, the morphology and function of ruminant digestive systems reveal some adaptive evolutionary ...
Dehuai Meng, Yuhui Si, Jifei Wang, Zongzhi Li, Romaan Hayat Khattak, Zhensheng Liu, Liwei Teng   +6 more
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Protecting the Amazon with protected areas [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
This article addresses climate-tipping points in the Amazon Basin resulting from deforestation. It applies a regional climate model to assess whether the system of protected areas in Brazil is able to avoid such tipping points, with massive conversion to semiarid vegetation, particularly along the south and southeastern margins of the basin.
Robert, Walker, Nathan J, Moore, Eugenio, Arima, Stephen, Perz, Cynthia, Simmons, Marcellus, Caldas, Dante, Vergara, Claudio, Bohrer   +7 more
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Insights into the composition of gut microbiota in response to environmental temperature: The case of the Mongolia racerunner (Eremias argus)

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Gut microbiota are essential to maintain host health and fitness largely through its influence with behavior, development and reproduction of host, particular among the amniotic ectothermic reptiles.
Zhirong Zhang, Qian Zhu, Junda Chen, Romaan Hayat Khattak, Zongzhi Li, Liwei Teng, Zhensheng Liu   +6 more
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Protected areas and poverty [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015
Protected areas are controversial because they are so important for conservation and because they distribute fortune and misfortune unevenly. The nature of that distribution, as well as the terrain of protected areas themselves, have been vigorously contested.
Brockington, Daniel, Wilkie, D., D., [Unknown]   +2 more
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Evaluating Communities’ Willingness to Participate in Ecosystem Conservation in Southeast Tibetan Nature Reserves, China

Land, 2022
Southeast Tibet is significant in maintaining key ecological functions and providing irreplaceable ecosystem services but is also extremely vulnerable and susceptible to the impacts of human activities.
Lingxia Xu, Wanyun Xu, Chao Jiang, Huxuan Dai, Qiaoqi Sun, Kun Cheng, Chun-Hung Lee, Cheng Zong, Jianzhang Ma   +8 more
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The Important Marine Mammal Area Network: A Tool for Systematic Spatial Planning in Response to the Marine Mammal Habitat Conservation Crisis

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) initiative was launched by the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 2016, as a response to a conservation crisis in the protection of marine ...
Michael J. Tetley, Gill T. Braulik, Gill T. Braulik, Caterina Lanfredi, Caterina Lanfredi, Gianna Minton, Gianna Minton, Simone Panigada, Simone Panigada, Elena Politi, Elena Politi, Margherita Zanardelli, Margherita Zanardelli, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Erich Hoyt, Erich Hoyt   +16 more
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Protected Areas in Asia.zip

, 2023
 We extracted the targeted protected areas boundaries from The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), which is the most comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas. 
World Database on Protected Areas (14819134)
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Evaluation of Arabian Vascular Plant Barcodes (rbcL and matK): Precision of Unsupervised and Supervised Learning Methods towards Accurate Identification

Plants, 2021
Arabia is the largest peninsula in the world, with >3000 species of vascular plants. Not much effort has been made to generate a multi-locus marker barcode library to identify and discriminate the recorded plant species. This study aimed to determine the
Rahul Jamdade, Maulik Upadhyay, Khawla Al Shaer, Eman Al Harthi, Mariam Al Sallani, Mariam Al Jasmi, Asma Al Ketbi   +6 more
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