Abstract
Protected African rainforest mammals and climate change
Highlights
Well-governed and effectively managed national parks, game reserves, wilderness areas and other legally established protected areas (PAs) provide a wide range of social, environmental and economic benefits worldwide (Ervin et al, 2010)
We present, for the first-time, analyses at 0.1o resolution, that examine the potential impact of climatic change (CC) on the protection of forest mammals within the Rainforest Biotic Zone (RBZ) in Central Africa
The area occupied could decrease by 21.1 - 29.5% for hot spots (Fig. 2A), or by 23.4 - 32.8% for weak spots (Fig. 2B) depending on whether the most optimistic (RCP26) or the most pessimist emission scenario (RCP85) was considered
Summary
Well-governed and effectively managed national parks, game reserves, wilderness areas and other legally established protected areas (PAs) provide a wide range of social, environmental and economic benefits worldwide (Ervin et al, 2010). We mapped their current and future distributions (at 0.1o resolution) by using favourability-function models (Acevedo & Real, 2012). We defined geographical hot spots as areas of high diversity, and weak spots as high diversity regions of special hunting vulnerability for wildlife (Fa et al, 2014).
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