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A systematic review of the effectiveness of protected areas at reducing threats to biodiversity

2025-07-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold> Protected areas (PAs) are central to global biodiversity conservation efforts, yet their effectiveness in reducing threats is context-dependent and poorly understood. This systematic review evaluates how well PAs mitigate anthropogenic threats to biodiversity by synthesizing findings from peer-reviewed and grey literature. Specifically, we assess how threat level...

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Literature Corpus work: 65493448-fbfd-523e-b2a8-ce7fe0d30aa5
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7046705/v1

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