Opportunities drive the global distribution of protected areas

Biodiversity attracts visitors to national parks

(2015) Pirkko Siikamäki et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Conservation opportunities across the world's anthromes

(2014) Laura J. Martin et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The performance and potential of protected areas

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

Whose conservation?

(2014) G. M. Mace   SCIENCE

Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

(2014) Oscar Venter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mountain gorilla tourism generating wealth and peace in post-conflict Rwanda

(2013) Miko Maekawa et al.   NATURAL RESOURCES FORUM

Representation of Ecological Systems within the Protected Areas Network of the Continental United States

(2013) Jocelyn L. Aycrigg et al.   PLoS One

Representation of Ecosystem Services by Terrestrial Protected Areas: Chile as a Case Study

(2013) América P. Durán et al.   PLoS One

Used planet: A global history

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

Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation

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

Patterns of protection and threats along productivity gradients in Canada

(2011) Margaret E. Andrew et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Identification of de facto protected areas in boreal Canada

(2011) Margaret E. Andrew et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A New Way to Measure the World's Protected Area Coverage

(2011) Lissa M. Barr et al.   PLoS One

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global development and the future of the protected area strategy

(2010) Robert I. McDonald et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Variable selection using random forests

(2010) Robin Genuer et al.   PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

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

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

Variable Importance Assessment in Regression: Linear Regression versus Random Forest

(2009) Ulrike Grömping   AMERICAN STATISTICIAN

Expansion of the global terrestrial protected area system

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

High and Far: Biases in the Location of Protected Areas

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

Explaining the global pattern of protected area coverage: relative importance of vertebrate biodiversity, human activities and agricultural suitability

(2008) Colby Loucks et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

(2007) Erle C Ellis et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT