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Opportunities drive the global distribution of protected areas

2016-09-20

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<h4>Background: </h4> The establishment of protected areas, regarded today as a cornerstone of nature conservation, resulted from a multiple array of motivations and opportunities. We explore at global and regional levels, the current distribution of protected areas along biophysical, human, and biological gradients, and assess to what extent protection pursued (i) a balanced representation of biophysical environm...

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Literature Corpus work: 733fbd83-d08a-52fa-8b61-1e8a692d0c4b
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2461v1

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