- Title
- The influence of biophysical and socio-economic factors on the effectiveness of private land conservation areas in preventing natural land cover loss across South Africa
- Creator
- Shumba, Tafadzwa, de Vos, Alta, Biggs, Reinette, Esler, Karen J, Clements, Hayley S
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/415940
- Identifier
- vital:71302
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01670"
- Description
- There is increasing interest in the potential of private land conservation areas (PLCAs) as a complementary biodiversity conservation strategy to state-owned protected areas. However, there is limited understanding of how the diverse social-ecological contexts of PLCAs influence their effectiveness in conserving biodiversity. Here, we investigated how the effectiveness of South African PLCAs in conserving biodiversity varied across social-ecological contexts, using natural land cover as a proxy. Social-ecological contexts were represented by biophysical and legal factors (distance to towns and roads, elevation, slope, terrain ruggedness, rainfall, PLCA size, distance to state-owned national parks, and presence of legal protection) and, for a subset of commercially-operated PLCAs, management factors (adopted business model, and profitability).
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (9 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Global Ecology and Conservation, Shumba, T., De Vos, A., Biggs, R., Esler, K.J. and Clements, H.S., 2021. The influence of biophysical and socio-economic factors on the effectiveness of private land conservation areas in preventing natural land cover loss across South Africa. Global Ecology and Conservation, 28, p.e01670, Global Ecology and Conservation volume 28 p.e. 01670 2021 2351-9894
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- Publisher
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- Rights
- Open Access
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de Vos, Alta (Dr)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
SDG 15. Life On Land
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