Potential future land use threats to California's protected areas

摘要

Increasing pressures from land use coupled with future changes in climate will present unique challenges for California's protected areas. We assessed the potential for future land use conversion on land surrounding existing protected areas in California's twelve ecoregions, utilizing annual, spatially explicit (250 m) scenario projections of land use for 2006-2100 based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emission Scenarios to examine future changes in development