| dc.contributor.author | Bebber, DP | |
| dc.contributor.author | Butt, N | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-25T13:22:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-10-25 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Tropical deforestation is responsible for around one tenth of total anthropogenic carbon emissions, and tropical protected areas (PAs) that reduce deforestation can therefore play an important role in mitigating climate change and protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services. While the effectiveness of PAs in reducing deforestation has been estimated, the impact on global carbon emissions remains unquantified. Here we show that tropical PAs overall reduced deforestation carbon emissions by 4.88 Pg, or around 29%, between 2000 and 2012, when compared to expected rates of deforestation controlling for spatial variation in deforestation pressure. The largest contribution was from the tropical Americas (368.8 GgC y-1), followed by Asia (25.0 GgC y-1) and Africa (12.7 GgC y-1). Variation in PA effectiveness is largely driven by local factors affecting individual PAs, rather than designations assigned by governments. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 7, article 14005 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-017-14467-w | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34459 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_GB |
| dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29070820 | en_GB |
| dc.rights | © 2017 The Author(s). Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
| dc.title | Tropical protected areas reduced deforestation carbon emissions by one third from 2000-2012 | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-25T13:22:27Z | |
| exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
| dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer Nature via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
