Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

This study assesses the global impacts of avoided forest conversion on well-being, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, finding widespread co-benefits across 29,038 studies.

This study compares ecological outcomes of Indigenous and local community governance with conventional approaches, finding community-governed areas perform as well as fully protected areas and better than others.

The paper develops a sensitivity-based framework to prioritize conservation and restoration efforts by identifying areas where local habitat changes have the largest landscape-scale ecological impacts.

The paper quantifies land use and cover change in Halmahera, Indonesia, identifying deforestation drivers and projecting future forest loss under current policies.

The paper assesses global threat patterns for terrestrial biodiversity, finding that human development and income inequality are the strongest predictors of threat probabilities across different taxa and regions.

This study evaluates the impact of Amazonian protected areas on reducing deforestation and carbon loss over 40 years, finding they prevented 290,436 km2 of deforestation and 7,300 Mt of CO2 emissions.

The paper evaluates how different governance regimes affect agricultural expansion and native vegetation loss in Brazil, finding that constrained governance reduces native vegetation conversion while redirecting soybean expansion to already converted lands.

The paper identifies global vertebrate conservation hotspots using data from 33,604 terrestrial vertebrate species, finding 13% of Earth's surface qualifies as priority areas.

This paper redefines global biodiversity hotspots using a data-driven approach, identifying 47 hotspots that cover 26.63% of land area and contain most threatened terrestrial species.

This study evaluates reserve configurations to support species diversity and trophic levels, finding that larger, fewer protected areas enhance conservation metrics, while smaller reserves improve species abundance outside through spillover effects.

This study uses satellite imagery to analyze habitat changes in the Amazon, finding increased pasture and oil palm areas and predicting forest cover decline.

The paper compares the biodiversity and carbon benefits and costs of three interventions in tropical forests, finding that avoiding disturbances is most cost-effective, but combined interventions yield the greatest gains.

The paper examines how resident custodian communities in a Tanzanian wildlife management area affect forest conservation, finding that their displacement led to increased illegal activities.

The paper applies KBA Criterion E across Europe to assess its effectiveness in identifying irreplaceable sites for insects and tetrapods, highlighting sensitivity to analytical choices and proposing adjustments for broader applicability.

The paper identifies roadless areas in the EU and assesses their potential to enhance strict protection coverage and environmental representativeness.

The paper shows that southeast and northeast-facing slopes have the least tree cover in the Northern and Southern tropics, respectively, and suggests reforestation strategies should consider slope direction.

This study identifies knowledge gaps and conservation challenges in the Konkan region of Maharashtra through literature review and focus group discussions, highlighting threats like land-use change and climate change impacts.

This study identifies conservation priority areas for under-protected globally threatened birds in Latin America using habitat and protected area data.

The study examines how population pressure affects forest resource depletion in the Yayo Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve, finding a significant negative correlation between population growth and forest cover.

This paper uses AI to optimize ecological restoration by balancing biodiversity and carbon sequestration goals, showing that prioritizing biodiversity can enhance conservation while slightly reducing carbon gains.

The paper predicts near-future deforestation risk in Key Biodiversity Areas in West Africa and identifies factors driving forest loss, highlighting urgent conservation priorities.

This study evaluates how different matching specifications and analysis units affect estimates of REDD+ project effectiveness, finding consistent results despite methodological variations.

The paper evaluates conservation potential for 29 Mexican carnivores by analyzing unprotected areas and land management types, identifying key gaps and emphasizing the role of Indigenous Territories.

The paper evaluates indicators to identify sites that could qualify as OECMs, finding most potential OECMs are in good condition but none meet all criteria, while protected areas also mostly fail.

This study examines the establishment motives and current management implications of protected areas in Southern and Eastern Africa, identifying three historical periods with distinct management challenges.