Persistent Disparities between Recent Rates of Habitat Conversion and Protection and Implications for Future Global Conservation Targets

Bolder science needed now for protected areas

(2016) James E. M. Watson et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

(2016) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

A global assessment of current and future biodiversity vulnerability to habitat loss–climate change interactions

(2016) Daniel B. Segan et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Quantifying the relative irreplaceability of important bird and biodiversity areas

(2015) Moreno Di Marco et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Understanding the importance of small patches of habitat for conservation

(2015) Ayesha I. T. Tulloch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets

(2015) Stuart H.M. Butchart et al.   Conservation Letters

The performance and potential of protected areas

(2014) James E. M. Watson et al.   NATURE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

(2014) Oscar Venter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Comparing multiple species distribution proxies and different quantifications of the human footprint map, implications for conservation

(2013) Moreno Di Marco et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Deforestation Trends of Tropical Dry Forests in Central Brazil

(2012) Carlos A. Bianchi et al.   BIOTROPICA

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets

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

Species–area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss

(2011) Fangliang He et al.   NATURE

Ecoregion Prioritization Suggests an Armoury Not a Silver Bullet for Conservation Planning

(2010) Stephan M. Funk et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

Expansion of the global terrestrial protected area system

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

The Ecological Performance of Protected Areas

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