Ian Harrison, Pamela Green, T. Farrell, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli et al.
Abstract Protected areas, although often terrestrially focused and less frequently designed to protect freshwater resources, can be extremely important for conserving freshwater biodiversity and supporting human water security necessary for people to survive and thrive. This study measured the quant...
Robert J. Smith, Leon Bennun, Thomas M. Brooks, Stuart H. M. Butchart et al.
Abstract Systematic conservation planning and Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are the two most widely used approaches for identifying important sites for biodiversity. However, there is limited advice for conservation policy makers and practitioners on when and how they should be combined. Here we pro...
Moreno Di Marco, Thomas M. Brooks, Annabelle Cuttelod, Lincoln Fishpool et al.
World governments have committed to increase the global protected areas coverage by 2020, but the effectiveness of this commitment for protecting biodiversity depends on where new protected areas are located. Threshold- and complementarity-based approaches have been independently used to identify im...