Scenarios of future land use change around United States’ protected areas

Martinuzzi, Sebastián; Radeloff, Volker C.; Joppa, Lucas; Hamilton, Christopher M.; Helmers, David P.; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Lewis, D. J.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.02.015

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“…Roadless areas, when added to existing PAs in the northern Rocky Mountains (USA), enhanced overall landscape connectivity by creating a larger and more cohesive system of PAs, by reducing isolation among PAs, and by creating a more dispersed PAs network, important for maintaining species movements (Crist et al, 2005). The conservation value of some PAs is currently at risk due to land use changes in surrounding lands (Martinuzzi et al, 2015) and protecting adjacent RAs may safeguard their values. Hence, we propose that RAs, as areas relatively undisturbed by humans, should be adopted as an alternative means of achieving the EU 2020 biodiversity strategy targets.…”

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Importance of Roadless Areas for the European Conservation Network

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Importance of Roadless Areas for the European Conservation Network

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“…At the international and national level, policies on environmental protection pursue the maintenance [5,8] or restoration [9] of biodiversity and ecological integrity. Therefore, such policies are formally put into practice through the establishment of protected areas [10].…”

Section: Effectiveness Of Protected Areas In Maintaining Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…11 sets at 17% and 10%, respectively, the percentage of terrestrial, and coastal and marine areas to be maintained and protected through a system of conservation measures by 2020. Despite these targets, biodiversity is declining even in protected areas [11] due to land-use changes within or outside their borders [5]. Land cover changes, resulting from deforestation, agricultural expansion and abandonment and anthropization processes, involve fragmentation and degradation of habitats [12].…”

Section: Effectiveness Of Protected Areas In Maintaining Biodiversitymentioning

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Anthropization Processes and Protection of the Environment: An Assessment of Land Cover Changes in Sardinia, Italy

2017

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Protection of the environment is implemented through preventive and mitigating measures aimed at hindering anthropization processes. These measures may possibly entail the establishment of natural protected areas and sites where conservation measures are stated under the provisions of the "Habitats" Directive (No. 92/43/EEC) and Directive No. 2009/147/EC (the so-called "Birds" Directive, which modifies Directive No. 79/409/EEC). A straightforward way of assessing widespread anthropization processes consists in analyzing land cover changes related artificialization processes concerning natural areas. In this study, we assess land cover changes by using the simplified land cover taxonomy of the Land and Ecosystem Account classes and by analyzing transition processes; in addition, we propose a comparative appraisal of land cover changes occurring in areas characterized by different protection regimes, as follows: areas protected under the provisions of national or regional acts or regulations; sites belonging to the Natura 2000 network, that is, protected under the Habitats or Birds Directives; and unprotected areas. We analyze anthropization processes that take place in Sardinia, an Italian insular region characterized by the presence of several national and regional protected areas and by a significant system of Natura 2000 sites, and assess land cover changes over a twelve-year period (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012). The outcomes of our study put in evidence important lessons related to the definition and implementation of planning policies aiming at preventing anthropization processes in Sardinia. Moreover, the assessment methodology we implement in our study can be exported to other European regions to set up planning processes that fit the local features of land cover changes.

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“…Land development inside PAs in developed nations with strong policies and institutions can be deemed exceptional, although substantial LULC changes towards residential uses in the immediate surroundings of PAs compared to national averages have been reported (Radeloff et al 2010) and are forecasted to expand (Martinuzzi et al 2015). Encroachment of natural ecosystems in PAs by artificial LULCs hampers PA effectiveness and jeorpadises conservation of protected biodiversity in terms of isolation of wild populations and increased risks associated to human-nature interactions, such as wildfires, leading to inner habitat destruction or degradation (Radeloff et al 2010).…”

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“…Thus, we focused on these LULC changes as the primary metric of PA effectiveness (Nagendra 2008) for having the greatest direct, negative and permanent impact on biodiversity conservation (McKinney 2002). Other LULC changes, such as cropland expansion, may also have important effects on biodiversity (Davis et al 2014;Martinuzzi et al 2015), although it is assumed that those changes can be reversed much more easily, sometimes through natural succession, than changes from natural or semi-natural LULCs to artificial LULCs (McKinney 2002).…”

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Effect of legal protection and management of protected areas at preventing land development: a Spanish case study

Rodríguez‐Rodríguez

Martínez‐Vega

2018

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Protected areas are entrusted long-term biodiversity conservation, but measures of their effectiveness are limited, methodologically diverse and, sometimes, of improvable accuracy. Using a semi-experimental BACI research design, this study assesses the environmental effectiveness of two highly related multiple-use protected area (PA) categories of European relevance at preventing land development: Sites of Community Importance (SCIs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). The nonoverlapping SCI and SAC polygon networks of a northern Spanish region (Navarra) were used as the best possible case studies in the country because their main difference is implementation of active management (in the case of SACs). One kilometre outer buffer areas were created to serve as controls for each of the two PA networks. Three spatial-statistical models that progessively consider exclusion areas according to additional land protection legislation and biophysical covariates were tested to maximise their accurateness. Percentual increases of land development were compared for each of the four groups: SCIs, SCI-Buffers, SACs and SAC-Buffers, using Corine Land Cover (CLC) data from 2006 and 2012. Results show that SACs have been fully effective at preventing land development in the Navarra region whereas some exceptional development occurred in SCIs, even though their biophysical characteristics made them less prone to development than their buffer areas. Additional legislation seems to slightly add to protection inside PAs and provides clear protection to surrounding buffer areas. Residential uses were minor among the new artificial uses around Navarra's PAs.

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Scenarios of future land use change around United States’ protected areas

Cited by 102 publications

References 43 publications

Importance of Roadless Areas for the European Conservation Network

Importance of Roadless Areas for the European Conservation Network

Anthropization Processes and Protection of the Environment: An Assessment of Land Cover Changes in Sardinia, Italy

Effect of legal protection and management of protected areas at preventing land development: a Spanish case study

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