- 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
- Creator
- de Vos, Alta
- Creator
- Biggs, Reinette
- Creator
- Esler, Karen J
- Creator
- Clements, Hayley S
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2021
- 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
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (9 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Global Ecology and Conservation
- Relation
- 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
- Relation
- Global Ecology and Conservation volume 28 p.e. 01670 2021 2351-9894
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Elsevier Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.elsevier.com/legal/elsevier-website-terms-and-conditions)
- 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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