Protected areas and the future of insect conservation

S Chowdhury, MD Jennions, MP Zalucki… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Anthropogenic pressures are driving insect declines across the world. Although protected
areas (PAs) play a prominent role in safeguarding many vertebrate species from human …

Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity: attribution problems, risks, and opportunities

TH Oliver, MD Morecroft - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Global change drivers are known to interact in their effects on biodiversity, but much
research to date ignores this complexity. As a consequence, there are problems in the …

Global protected areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

C Mi, L Ma, M Yang, X Li, S Meiri, U Roll… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we
collated distributional data for> 14,000 (~ 70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles …

[HTML][HTML] Three-quarters of insect species are insufficiently represented by protected areas

S Chowdhury, MP Zalucki, JO Hanson, S Tiatragul… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Insects dominate the biosphere, yet insect populations are plummeting worldwide. Massive
conservation efforts will be needed to reverse these declines. Protected areas (PAs) could …

Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism

F Montesino Pouzols, T Toivonen, E Di Minin… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Protected areas are one of the main tools for halting the continuing global biodiversity
crisis,,, caused by habitat loss, fragmentation and other anthropogenic pressures …

Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation

RJ Wilson, R Fox - Ecological Entomology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Insects have emerged as causes célèbres for widespread concern about human effects
on global biodiversity. Here, we consider how insects provide opportunities both to …

Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the 'Protection Paradox'

AE Bates, RSC Cooke, MI Duncan, GJ Edgar… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Restricting human activities through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is assumed to create
more resilient biological communities with a greater capacity to resist and recover following …

Protected areas offer refuge from invasive species spreading under climate change

B Gallardo, DC Aldridge… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Protected areas (PA s) are intended to provide native biodiversity and habitats with a refuge
against the impacts of global change, particularly acting as natural filters against biological …

[HTML][HTML] Protected areas in the world's ecoregions: How well connected are they?

S Saura, L Bastin, L Battistella, A Mandrici, G Dubois - Ecological indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) are the main instrument for biodiversity conservation, which has
triggered the development of numerous indicators and assessments on their coverage …

Species–area relationships and extinctions caused by habitat loss and fragmentation

J Rybicki, I Hanski - Ecology letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The species–area relationship (SAR) has been used to predict the numbers of species
going extinct due to habitat loss, but other researchers have maintained that SAR s …