The effect of protected areas on forest disturbance in the Carpathian Mountains 1985–2010

• Published in: Conservation biology Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 570 - 580
• Main Authors: Van Butsic, Munteanu, Catalina, Griffiths, Patrick, Knorn, Jan, Radeloff, Volker C., Lieskovský, Juraj, Mueller, Daniel, Kuemmerle, Tobias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Blackwell, Inc 01.06.2017; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: ampliación de la UE; Breakdown; Conservation of Natural Resources; Data processing; Deforestation; Disturbance; Eastern Europe; efectividad; effectiveness; Environmental impact; Environmental protection; estadística correspondiente; EU enlargement; Europa; Europa Oriental; European Union; Forest management; Forest protection; Forests; Growth; Harvesting; Humans; Institutions; Jupiter; Jupiter satellites; Landscape; matching statistics; Mountains; Nature conservation; postsocialist transition; Privatization; Protected areas; Protection; Satellites; Statistical methods; transición pos‐socialista; Carpathian Mountains; effectiveness; Europa Oriental; efectividad; matching statistics; EU enlargement; estadística correspondiente; Eastern Europe; ampliación de la UE; transición pos-socialista; postsocialist transition

Protected areas are a cornerstone for forest protection, but they are not always effective during times of socioeconomic and institutional crises. The Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe are an ecologically outstanding region, with widespread seminatural and old-growth forest. Since 1990, Carpath...