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The extirpation of species outside protected areas

Boakes, EH; Fuller, RA; McGowan, PJK; (2019) The extirpation of species outside protected areas. Conservation Letters , 12 (1) , Article e12608. 10.1111/conl.12608. Green open access

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Abstract

Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Protected areas (PAs) are fundamental to conservation efforts but they are only part of a successful conservation strategy. We examine biodiversity outside PAs in Sundaland, one of the world's most biologically degraded regions. Using the avian order Galliformes as a case study, we identify species that have not been sighted outside PAs within the last 20 years on each individual landmass (i.e., Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Bali). We estimate these species’ extirpation dates outside PAs using optimal linear estimation and species’ sighting records. We conclude there have been up to 13 extirpations of Galliformes from outside PAs in Sundaland. Three Sundaic endemics now occur only inside PAs. Sumatra has suffered the highest proportion of extirpations (50% of its galliform species). Effective management of Sundaland's PAs is thus critical to species’ persistence and the conservation strategy for species outside PAs must be improved.

Type: Article
Title: The extirpation of species outside protected areas
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12608
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12608
Language: English
Additional information: © 2018 The Authors. © 2018 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Biodiversity, connectivity, extirpation, Galliformes, optimal linear estimation, protected areas, sighting records, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Sundaland
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058793
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