Control selection for the assessment of protected areas in the Hengduan Mountains: A case study in Yunlong Tianchi National Nature Reserve, China
To assess whether a forest protected area (PA) is effective in preventing deforestation, it is common to compare the deforestation rate inside the PA with that of its surrounding area, defined using a buffer zone of a certain distance from the PA boundary. However, this methodology is often problema...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Global Ecology and Conservation |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989420307113 |