The socioeconomic and environmental niche of protected areas reveals global conservation gaps and opportunities.

Autor: Mouillot D; MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier, France. david.mouillot@umontpellier.fr.; Institut Universitaire de France, IUF, Paris, France. david.mouillot@umontpellier.fr., Velez L; MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier, France., Albouy C; IFREMER, Unite Ecol & Modeles Halieut, Nantes, France., Casajus N; FRB - CESAB, 34000, Montpellier, France., Claudet J; National Center for Scientific Research, PSL Université Paris, CRIOBE, CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Maison de l'Océan, 195 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005, Paris, France., Delbar V; La TeleScop, Maison de la Télédétection, Montpellier, France., Devillers R; Espace-Dev, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Univ Réunion, Montpellier, France., Letessier TB; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK.; Marine Futures Laboratory and Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.; School of Biological and Marine Sciences Portland Square B304 Drake Circus, University of Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, Plymouth, United Kingdom., Loiseau N; MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier, France., Manel S; Institut Universitaire de France, IUF, Paris, France.; CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Univ Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France., Mannocci L; MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier, France.; FRB - CESAB, 34000, Montpellier, France., Meeuwig J; Marine Futures Laboratory and Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia., Mouquet N; MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier, France.; FRB - CESAB, 34000, Montpellier, France., Nuno A; Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.; Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom., O'Connor L; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, F-38000, Grenoble, France., Parravicini V; PSL Université Paris, EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France., Renaud J; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, F-38000, Grenoble, France., Seguin R; MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier, France., Troussellier M; MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier, France., Thuiller W; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, F-38000, Grenoble, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2024 Oct 18; Vol. 15 (1), pp. 9007. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 18.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53241-1
Abstrakt: The global network of protected areas has rapidly expanded in the past decade and is expected to cover at least 30% of land and sea by 2030 to halt biodiversity erosion. Yet, the distribution of protected areas is highly heterogeneous on Earth and the social-environmental preconditions enabling or hindering protected area establishment remain poorly understood. Here, using fourteen socioeconomic and environmental factors, we characterize the multidimensional niche of terrestrial and marine protected areas, which we use to accurately establish, at the global scale, whether a particular location has preconditions favourable for paestablishment. We reveal that protected areas, particularly the most restrictive ones, over-aggregate where human development and the number of non-governmental organizations are high. Based on the spatial distribution of vertebrates and the likelihood to convert non-protected areas into strictly protected areas, we identify 'potential' versus 'unrealistic' conservation gains on land and sea, which we define as areas of high vertebrate diversity that are, respectively, favourable and unfavourable to protected area establishment. Where protected areas are unrealistic, alternative strategies such as other effective area-based conservation measures or privately protected areas, could deliver conservation outcomes.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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