<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PNAS. January 12, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Volker C. Radeloff, Susan I. Stewart et al.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/940.abstract?sid=4718e5e2-8fa3-475a-9b92-032f399600c3" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/940.abstract?sid=4718e5e2-8fa3-475a-9b92-032f399600c3</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">" \u2026 housing growth poses the main threat to protected areas in the United States whereas deforestation is the main threat in developing countries."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If long-term trends continue, another 17 million housing units will be built within 50 km of protected areas by 2030 (1 million within 1 km), greatly diminishing their conservation value<i>. US protected areas are increasingly isolated, housing development in their surroundings is decreasing their effective size \u2026 "<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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