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Robert L. Pressey

• How much does it cost to expand a protected area system? Some critical determining factors and ranges of costs for Queensland

  Many governments have recently gone on record promising large-scale expansions of protected areas to meet global commitments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity. As systems of protected areas

  • 28/09/2011

  • PLoS ONE
  • • Protected Area Conservation
    • Australia
    • Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD)
    • Land Use
    • Finance
    • Biodiversity
    • National Parks

• A new way to measure the world's protected area coverage

  Protected areas are effective at stopping biodiversity loss, but their placement is constrained by the needs of people. Consequently protected areas are often biased toward areas that are unattractive

  • 21/09/2011

  • PLoS ONE
  • • Protected Area Conservation
    • Biodiversity Conservation

• Effectiveness of biodiversity surrogates for conservation planning: Different measures of effectiveness generate a kaleidoscope

  Conservation planners represent many aspects of biodiversity by using surrogates with spatial distributions readily observed or quantified, but tests of their effectiveness have produced varied and conflicting results.

  • 14/07/2010

  • PLoS ONE
  • • Ecosystems
    • Forests
    • Endangered Species
    • Flora
    • Mammals
    • Reptiles
    • Frogs
    • Birds
    • Biodiversity
    • Biodiversity Conservation
    • Australia
    • PLoS ONE
    • Hedley S. Grantham
    • Robert L. Pressey
    • Jessie A. Wells & et al