Conservation Conflicts Across Africa

摘要: There is increasing evidence that areas of outstanding conservation importance may coincide with dense human settlement or impact. We tested the generality these findings using 1°-resolution data for sub-Saharan Africa. find population density positively correlated species richness birds, mammals, snakes, and amphibians. This association holds widespread, narrowly endemic, threatened looks set to persist in face foreseeable growth. Our results contradict earlier expectations low conflict based on idea decreases impact increases primary productivity. across Africa, both variables instead exhibit unimodal relationships Modifying priority-setting take account shows that, at this scale, conflicts between development are not easily avoided, because many densely inhabited grid cells contain found nowhere else.