Evaluating the impact of future actions in minimizing vegetation loss from land conversion in the Brazilian Cerrado under climate change

• Published in: Biodiversity and conservation Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 1701 - 1722
• Main Authors: Monteiro, Lara M., Brum, Fernanda Thiesen, Pressey, Robert L., Morellato, Leonor Patricia C., Soares-Filho, Britaldo, Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus S., Loyola, Rafael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biological diversity; Biological diversity conservation; Biomedical and Life Sciences; cerrado; Climate change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Conservation; Conservation Biology/Ecology; Conserved sequence; Conversion; Ecology; Endangered species; Environmental policy; Environmental protection; Environmental risk; Global temperature changes; habitats; land use change; Life Sciences; Maximization; Original Paper; Priorities; Protected areas; Protection and preservation; Representations; risk; Risk reduction; Schedules; Threatened species; Vegetation; Wildlife conservation; Cerrado; Protected areas; Spatial Conservation Prioritization; Threatened plants; Dynamic site selection; Impact evaluation; Land conversion

The global network of protected areas (PAs) is systematically biased towards remote and unproductive places. Consequently, the processes threatening biodiversity are not halted and conservation impact—defined as the beneficial environmental outcomes arising from protection relative to the counterfac...