Delineating the Ecosystems Containing Protected Areas for Monitoring and Management
Hansen AJ, Davis CR, Piekielek N, Gross J, Theobald DM, Goetz S, Melton F, DeFries R. 2011. Delineating the Ecosystems Containing Protected Areas for Monitoring and Management. BioScience. 61(5):363-373
Park managers realized more than 130 years ago that protected areas are often subsets of larger ecosystems and are vulnerable to change in the unprotected portions of the ecosystem. We illustrate the need to delineate protected area–centered ecosystems (PACEs) by using comprehensive scientific methods to map and analyze land-use change within PACEs around 13 US national park units.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Hansen, Andrew; Davis, Cory; Piekielek, Nathan; Gross, John; Theobald, David; Goetz, Scott; Melton, Forrest; DeFries, Ruth
- Units
- IMD
- Keywords
- Ecosystem, IMD External Publication, land use change, Management, Monitoring, palms, Protected Area