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We thank the Moore Family Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis of the University of California Santa Barbara for support. The analysis was possible thanks to the combined effort of the thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions who collected and compiled the data, or provided financial support for such efforts. We are grateful to the numerous individuals who contributed to this analysis, especially to K. Buhlmann, S. Butchart, N. Cox, P. P. van Dijk, J. Iverson, R. Kiester, T. Lacher and B. Young. H. Possingham made valuable comments on the manuscript. Figure 1 was generated by J. Seeber.

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  1. Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, Washington, DC, 20036, USA
    Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Thomas M. Brooks, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Michael Hoffmann, John D. Pilgrim & Robert W. Waller
  2. IUCN-SSC/CI-CABS Biodiversity Assessment Unit, Conservation International, Washington, DC, 20036, USA
    Janice S. Long, Wes Sechrest & Simon N. Stuart
  3. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 93101, USA
    Sandy J. Andelman
  4. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Gigiri Nairobi, Kenya
    Mohamed I. Bakarr
  5. Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, 00185, Rome, Italy
    Luigi Boitani
  6. Terrestrial Ecology Research Unit, Department of Botany, University of Port Elizabeth, 6000, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
    Richard M. Cowling
  7. BirdLife International, CB3 0NA, Cambridge, UK
    Lincoln D. C. Fishpool
  8. Departmento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
  9. Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, Sheffield, UK
    Kevin J. Gaston
  10. Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity (CASEB) and Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile
    Pablo A. Marquet
  11. New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation, Armidale, 2350, New South Wales, Australia
    Robert L. Pressey
  12. Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, Idaho, 83844, Moscow, USA
    Jan Schipper
  13. Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa
    Les G. Underhill
  14. 194W Hill Street, Walcha, 2354, New South Wales, Australia
    Matthew E. J. Watts
  15. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China
    Xie Yan

Authors

  1. Ana S. L. Rodrigues
  2. Sandy J. Andelman
  3. Mohamed I. Bakarr
  4. Luigi Boitani
  5. Thomas M. Brooks
  6. Richard M. Cowling
  7. Lincoln D. C. Fishpool
  8. Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
  9. Kevin J. Gaston
  10. Michael Hoffmann
  11. Janice S. Long
  12. Pablo A. Marquet
  13. John D. Pilgrim
  14. Robert L. Pressey
  15. Jan Schipper
  16. Wes Sechrest
  17. Simon N. Stuart
  18. Les G. Underhill
  19. Robert W. Waller
  20. Matthew E. J. Watts
  21. Xie Yan

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Correspondence toAna S. L. Rodrigues.

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Notes on: data sources and limitations; background information regarding targets based on percentage of area protected; confidence intervals for species coverage in networks of randomly distributed protected areas; comparison between protected and unprotected sites in terms of richness of all species, threatened species, and restricted-range species; and extended acknowledgements. (PDF 339 kb)

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Rodrigues, A., Andelman, S., Bakarr, M. et al. Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity.Nature 428, 640–643 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02422

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