Data from: Assessing the effectiveness of a national protected area network in maintaining carnivore populations

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Helsinki - Terraube, Julien
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Turku - Van doninck, Jasper
dc.contributor.affiliationNatural Resources Institute Finland - Helle, Pekka
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Helsinki - Cabeza, Mar
dc.contributor.authorTerraube, Julien
dc.contributor.authorVan doninck, Jasper
dc.contributor.authorHelle, Pekka
dc.contributor.authorCabeza, Mar
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-24T15:15:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-28
dc.date.issued2020-05-28
dc.descriptionProtected areas (PAs) are essential to prevent further biodiversity loss yet their effectiveness varies largely with governance and external threats. Although methodological advances have permitted assessments of PA effectiveness in mitigating deforestation, we still lack similar studies for the impact of PAs on wildlife populations. Here we demonstrate the application ofuse an innovative combination of matching methods and hurdle-mixed models with a large-scale and long-term dataset of unprecedented coverage for Finland's large carnivore species. We show that the national PA network , at the national level, PAs does not support higher densities than non-protected habitat for 3 of the 4 species investigated. For the brown bear, PAs appear to have lower densities than non-protected areas. For some species, PA effects interact with region or time, i.e. wolverine densities decreased inside PAs over the study period and lynx densities increased inside eastern PAs. Although we show that matching approaches could and should be applied to wildlife population data, Wwe support their application of matching methods in combination of additional analytical frameworks for deeper understanding of conservation impacts on wildlife populations. These methodological advances are crucial for improving PA targets and extremely timely for preparing ambitious PA targets a post-2020 global framework for biodiversity.
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s1rn8pk4w
dc.identifier.urihttps://hydatakatalogi-test-24.it.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/9495
dc.rightsOpen
dc.rights.licensecc-zero
dc.titleData from: Assessing the effectiveness of a national protected area network in maintaining carnivore populations
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