[MCN] "... urban expansion around protected areas will continue to be a major threat ..."

[Lance Olsen]

"Land use change around protected areas can diminish their conservation value, making it important to predict future land use changes nearby. .... Our results showed that urban expansion around protected areas will continue to be a major threat, and expand by 67% under business-as-usual conditions."
 
Scenarios of future land use change around United States' protected areas, Sebastián Martinuzzi, Volker C. Radeloff, Lucas N. Joppa, Christopher M. Hamilton, David P. Helmers, Andrew J. Plantinga, David J. Lewis. Biological Conservation 184 (2015) 446-455


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"The increasing role of warming on large-scale snowpack variability and trends foreshadows fundamental impacts on streamflow and water supplies across the western USA."

Gregory T. Pederson, Stephen T. Gray, Connie A. Woodhouse, Julio L. Betancourt, Daniel B. Fagre, Jeremy S. Littell, Emma Watson, Brian H. Luckman, Lisa J. Graumlich. “The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera.”  Science, Science Express, June 9, 2011

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