IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcli/v11y2021i12d10.1038_s41558-021-01223-2.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas

Author

Listed:
  • Ernest F. Asamoah

    (Macquarie University)

  • Linda J. Beaumont

    (Macquarie University)

  • Joseph M. Maina

    (Macquarie University)

Abstract

Expanding and enhancing protected area networks (PAs) is at the forefront of efforts to conserve and restore global biodiversity but climate change and habitat loss can interact synergistically to undermine the potential benefits of PAs. Targeting conservation, adaptation and mitigation efforts requires understanding climate and land-use patterns within PAs, both currently and under future scenarios. Here, projecting rates of temporal and spatial displacement of climate and land-use revealed that more than one-quarter of the world’s PAs (~27%) are located in regions that will experience both high rates of climate change and land-use change by 2050. Substantial changes are expected to occur more often within PAs distributed across tropical moist and grassland biomes, which currently host diverse tetrapods and vascular plants, and fall into less-stringent management categories. Taken together, our findings can inform spatially adaptive natural resource management and actions to achieve sustainable development and biodiversity goals.

Suggested Citation

  • Ernest F. Asamoah & Linda J. Beaumont & Joseph M. Maina, 2021. "Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 11(12), pages 1105-1110, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:11:y:2021:i:12:d:10.1038_s41558-021-01223-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01223-2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01223-2
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41558-021-01223-2?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Chunrong Mi & Liang Ma & Mengyuan Yang & Xinhai Li & Shai Meiri & Uri Roll & Oleksandra Oskyrko & Daniel Pincheira-Donoso & Lilly P. Harvey & Daniel Jablonski & Barbod Safaei-Mahroo & Hanyeh Ghaffari , 2023. "Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis & Maria Tsakiri & Ioannis P. Kokkoris & Panayiotis Trigas & Gregoris Iatrou & Fotini N. Lamari & Dimitris Tzanoudakis & Eleni Koumoutsou & Panayotis Dimopoulos & Arne Strid, 2024. "Assessing the Vulnerability of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants to Climate and Land-Use Changes in a Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-29, January.
    3. Fuqin Yu & Baiping Zhang & Yonghui Yao & Jing Wang & Xinghang Zhang & Junjie Liu & Jiayu Li, 2022. "Identifying Connectivity Conservation Priorities among Protected Areas in Qinling-Daba Mountains, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-14, April.
    4. Yajuan Wang & Yongheng Rao & Hongbo Zhu, 2022. "Revealing the Impact of Protected Areas on Land Cover Volatility in China," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-16, August.
    5. Xiuyan Zhao & Changhong Miao, 2022. "Spatial-Temporal Changes and Simulation of Land Use in Metropolitan Areas: A Case of the Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area, China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(21), pages 1-27, October.
    6. Ziqi Meng & Jinwei Dong & Erle C. Ellis & Graciela Metternicht & Yuanwei Qin & Xiao-Peng Song & Sara Löfqvist & Rachael D. Garrett & Xiaopeng Jia & Xiangming Xiao, 2023. "Post-2020 biodiversity framework challenged by cropland expansion in protected areas," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 6(7), pages 758-768, July.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:11:y:2021:i:12:d:10.1038_s41558-021-01223-2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.