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SUBMITTER: Barnes MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5025815 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20160901
Ensuring that protected areas (PAs) maintain the biodiversity within their boundaries is fundamental in achieving global conservation goals. Despite this objective, wildlife abundance changes in PAs are patchily documented and poorly understood. Here, we use linear mixed effect models to explore correlates of population change in 1,902 populations of birds and mammals from 447 PAs globally. On an average, we find PAs are maintaining populations of monitored birds and mammals within their boundar ...[more]