Global protected areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

• Main Authors: Chunrong, Mi, Liang, Ma, Mengyuan, Yang, Xinhai, Li, Shai, Meiri, Uri, Roll, Oleksandra, Oskyrko, Daniel, Pincheira-Donoso, Lilly P., Harvey, Daniel, Jablonski, Barbod, Safaei-Mahroo, Hanyeh, Ghaffari, Jiri, Smid, Scott, Jarvie, Ronnie, Mwangi Kimani, Rafaqat, Masroor, Indraneil, Das
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature Limited 2023
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41527/3/Global.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41527/; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36987-y; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36987-y

Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we collated distributional data for >14,000 (~70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles (herpetofauna) to perform a global assessment of the conserva- tion effectiveness of PAs using species distribution models. Our an...