Quality of governance and effectiveness of protected areas: crucial concepts for conservation planning

Wildlife population trends in protected areas predicted by national socio-economic metrics and body size

(2016) Megan D. Barnes et al.   Nature Communications

Effectiveness of Community Forest Management at reducing deforestation in Madagascar

(2015) Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

(2015) Robert L. Pressey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mismatches between conservation outcomes and management evaluation in protected areas: A case study in the Brazilian Cerrado

(2014) Tharsila Carranza et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Identification of policies for a sustainable legal trade in rhinoceros horn based on population projection and socioeconomic models

(2014) Enrico Di Minin et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Local Scale Comparisons of Biodiversity as a Test for Global Protected Area Ecological Performance: A Meta-Analysis

(2014) Bernard W. T. Coetzee et al.   PLoS One

Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

(2014) M. G. Ceddia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Poaching is more than an Enforcement Problem

(2014) Daniel W. S. Challender et al.   Conservation Letters

Understanding spatial differences in African elephant densities and occurrence, a continent-wide analysis

(2013) Willem F. de Boer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines

(2013) Jonas Geldmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Cheap and Nasty? The Potential Perils of Using Management Costs to Identify Global Conservation Priorities

(2013) Erin McCreless 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

Legal Trade of Africa's Rhino Horns

(2013) D. Biggs et al.   SCIENCE

Protected Areas and Effective Biodiversity Conservation

(2013) S. Le Saout et al.   SCIENCE

Protected Area Effectiveness in Reducing Conversion in a Rapidly Vanishing Ecosystem: The Brazilian Cerrado

(2013) Tharsila Carranza et al.   Conservation Letters

Linking Management Effectiveness Indicators to Observed Effects of Protected Areas on Fire Occurrence in the Amazon Rainforest

(2012) CHRISTOPH NOLTE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

(2012) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets

(2012) Stuart H. M. Butchart et al.   PLoS One

Protected Areas: Mixed Success in Conserving East Africa’s Evergreen Forests

(2012) Marion Pfeifer et al.   PLoS One

Biodiversity, Governance, and the Allocation of International Aid for Conservation

(2012) Daniel C. Miller et al.   Conservation Letters

The empty forest revisited

(2011) David S. Wilkie et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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

Prioritizing conservation investments for mammal species globally

(2011) K. A. Wilson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Governance factors in the identification of global conservation priorities for mammals

(2011) J. Eklund et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Investing in Threatened Species Conservation: Does Corruption Outweigh Purchasing Power?

(2011) Stephen T. Garnett et al.   PLoS One

Identifying governance strategies that effectively support ecosystem services, resource sustainability, and biodiversity

(2011) R. E. Kenward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effect of wealth and real income on wildlife consumption among native Amazonians in Bolivia: estimates of annual trends with longitudinal household data (2002-2006)

(2010) R. Godoy et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Reassessing the forest impacts of protection

(2010) Lucas Joppa et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

(2010) Ian D. Craigie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness

(2010) Fiona Leverington et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward

(2010) Elizabeth A. Stuart   STATISTICAL SCIENCE

Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra

(2009) David L. A. Gaveau et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Good governance for terrestrial protected areas: A framework, principles and performance outcomes

(2009) Michael Lockwood   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

High and Far: Biases in the Location of Protected Areas

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

Forest commons and local enforcement

(2008) A. Chhatre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Future battlegrounds for conservation under global change

(2008) T. M. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES