How pristine are China’s parks?

We map and analyse the Human Footprint Index at 1 km scale for 1834 terrestrial Nature Reserves of mainland China. There are fewer, larger, more pristine reserves in the colder, drier, less densely-populated pastoral areas of the north and west; and more numerous, smaller, more heavily modified rese...

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Main Authors: Ralf Christopher Buckley, Rui Zhou, Linsheng Zhong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2016.00136/full