Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 114; no. 7; pp. 1601 - 1606
• Main Authors: Xu, Weihua, Xiao, Yi, Zhang, Jingjing, Yang, Wu, Zhang, Lu, Hull, Vanessa, Wang, Zhi, Zheng, Hua, Liu, Jianguo, Polasky, Stephen, Jiang, Ling, Xiao, Yang, Shi, Xuewei, Rao, Enming, Lu, Fei, Wang, Xiaoke, Daily, Gretchen C., Ouyang, Zhiyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 14.02.2017
• Subjects: Amphibians; Biodiversity; Biological Sciences; Birds; Carbon sequestration; Ecosystem services; Ecosystems; Habitats; Mammals; National parks; Nature reserves; Protected areas; Reptiles; Retention; Social Sciences; Sustainable development; Threatened species; China; sustainable development; threatened species representation; protected areas; conservation strategy; ecosystem services

Recent expansion of the scale of human activities poses severe threats to Earth’s life-support systems. Increasingly, protected areas (PAs) are expected to serve dual goals: protect biodiversity and secure ecosystem services. We report a nationwide assessment for China, quantifying the provision of...