Making parks make a difference: poor alignment of policy, planning and management with protected-area impact, and ways forward

Levels and drivers of fishers’ compliance with marine protected areas

(2015) Adrian Arias et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Socio-economic and ecological impacts of global protected area expansion plans

(2015) Piero Visconti et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring benefits of protected area management: trends across realms and research gaps for freshwater systems

(2015) Vanessa M. Adams et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring impact of protected area management interventions: current and future use of the Global Database of Protected Area Management Effectiveness

(2015) Lauren Coad et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modelling marine protected areas: insights and hurdles

(2015) Elizabeth A. Fulton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrating impact evaluation in the design and implementation of monitoring marine protected areas

(2015) Gabby N. Ahmadia et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Implications of heterogeneous impacts of protected areas on deforestation and poverty

(2015) Merlin M. Hanauer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Through what mechanisms do protected areas affect environmental and social outcomes?

(2015) Paul J. Ferraro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services and poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation

(2015) Paul J. Ferraro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

(2015) Kathy Baylis et al.   Conservation Letters

Advances in Measuring the Environmental and Social Impacts of Environmental Programs

(2014) Paul J. Ferraro et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection?

(2014) Rodolphe Devillers et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Applying empirical estimates of marine protected area effectiveness to assess conservation plans in British Columbia, Canada

(2014) Natalie C. Ban et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, 1900–2010

(2014) Michael B. Mascia et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Planet at the crossroads

(2014) J. Marton-Lefevre   SCIENCE

Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

(2014) Oscar Venter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The plan of the day: Managing the dynamic transition from regional conservation designs to local conservation actions

(2013) Robert L. Pressey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Human population density explains alien species richness in protected areas

(2013) Dian Spear et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Commonalities and complementarities among approaches to conservation monitoring and evaluation

(2013) Michael B. Mascia et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Continental-Scale Governance and the Hastening of Loss of Australia's Biodiversity

(2013) Euan G. Ritchie et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Results Chains: a Tool for Conservation Action Design, Management, and Evaluation

(2013) Richard Margoluis et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

More strictly protected areas are not necessarily more protective: evidence from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Thailand

(2013) Paul J Ferraro et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Measuring and monitoring compliance in no-take marine reserves

(2013) Brock J Bergseth et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Do protected areas benefit freshwater species? A broad-scale assessment for fish in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

(2013) Bruce C. Chessman   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Missing marine protected area (MPA) targets: How the push for quantity over quality undermines sustainability and social justice

(2013) Elizabeth M. De Santo   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Modelling Coral Reef Futures to Inform Management: Can Reducing Local-Scale Stressors Conserve Reefs under Climate Change?

(2013) Georgina G. Gurney et al.   PLoS One

Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

(2013) C. Nolte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cultural legacies, fire ecology, and environmental change in the Stone Country of Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park, Australia

(2013) Clay Trauernicht et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Larval Export from Marine Reserves and the Recruitment Benefit for Fish and Fisheries

(2012) Hugo B. Harrison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Impacts of data quality on the setting of conservation planning targets using the species-area relationship

(2012) Kristian Metcalfe et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Remote sensing for conservation monitoring: Assessing protected areas, habitat extent, habitat condition, species diversity, and threats

(2012) Harini Nagendra et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A critical review of environmental management of the ‘not so Great’ Barrier Reef

(2012) Jon Brodie et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

The effectiveness and evaluation of conservation planning

(2012) Madeleine C. Bottrill et al.   Conservation Letters

Misleading results from conventional gap analysis – Messages from the warming north

(2011) Heini Kujala et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Implementing comprehensiveness, adequacy and representativeness criteria (CAR) to indicate gaps in an existing reserve system: A case study from Victoria, Australia

(2011) Seyedeh Mahdieh Sharafi et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Desirable mathematical properties of indicators for biodiversity change

(2011) A.J. van Strien et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Climate change threatens European conservation areas

(2011) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics

(2011) Luciana Porter-Bolland et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Ongoing global biodiversity loss and the need to move beyond protected areas: a review of the technical and practical shortcomings of protected areas on land and sea

(2011) C Mora et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Global distribution and conservation of marine mammals

(2011) S. Pompa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction

(2011) P. J. Ferraro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mislabeling marine protected areas and why it matters-a case study of Australia

(2011) James A. Fitzsimons   Conservation Letters

How the World Bank funds protected areas

(2011) Valerie Hickey et al.   Conservation Letters

The disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia: context, cause, and response

(2011) John C. Z. Woinarski et al.   Conservation Letters

The development and application of strategic adaptive management within South African National Parks

(2011) Dirk J. Roux et al.   KOEDOE

Conservation planning with dynamic threats: The role of spatial design and priority setting for species’ persistence

(2010) Piero Visconti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Why, What, and How of Global Biodiversity Indicators Beyond the 2010 Target

(2010) JULIA P. G. JONES et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness

(2010) Fiona Leverington et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Replacing underperforming protected areas achieves better conservation outcomes

(2010) Richard A. Fuller et al.   NATURE

The revised IUCN protected area management categories: the debate and ways forward

(2010) Nigel Dudley et al.   ORYX

Effectiveness of Biodiversity Surrogates for Conservation Planning: Different Measures of Effectiveness Generate a Kaleidoscope of Variation

(2010) Hedley S. Grantham et al.   PLoS One

Global protected area impacts

(2010) L. N. Joppa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Expenditure by conservation nongovernmental organizations in sub-Saharan Africa

(2010) Dan Brockington et al.   Conservation Letters

Habitat vulnerability in conservation planning-when it matters and how much

(2010) Piero Visconti et al.   Conservation Letters

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications

(2010) Michael B. Mascia et al.   Conservation Letters

Expansion of the global terrestrial protected area system

(2009) Clinton N. Jenkins et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Marxan with Zones: Software for optimal conservation based land- and sea-use zoning

(2009) Matthew E. Watts et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Approaches to landscape- and seascape-scale conservation planning: convergence, contrasts and challenges

(2009) Robert L. Pressey et al.   ORYX

Outcomes, not implementation, predict conservation success

(2009) Valerie Kapos et al.   ORYX

High and Far: Biases in the Location of Protected Areas

(2009) Lucas N. Joppa et al.   PLoS One

ENVIRONMENT: "True" Conservation Progress

(2009) E. McDonald-Madden et al.   SCIENCE

Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

(2009) Mikko Kuussaari et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover

(2009) Stephen T. Jackson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Ecological Performance of Protected Areas

(2008) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Protecting imperiled “paper parks”: potential lessons from the Sierra Chinajá, Guatemala

(2008) Curan A. Bonham et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns

(2008) Stephen Polasky et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threats and Actions

(2008) NICK SALAFSKY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Assessing progress towards global marine protection targets: shortfalls in information and action

(2008) Louisa J. Wood et al.   ORYX

Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation

(2008) K. S. Andam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Calibrating conservation: new tools for measuring success

(2008) Valerie Kapos et al.   Conservation Letters