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Protected areas and global conservation of migratory birds

Overview of attention for article published in Science, December 2015
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62 news outlets
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6 blogs
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2 policy sources
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241 X users
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5 Facebook pages
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11 Google+ users

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Title
Protected areas and global conservation of migratory birds
Published in
Science, December 2015
DOI 10.1126/science.aac9180
Pubmed ID
Authors

Claire A Runge, James E M Watson, Stuart H M Butchart, Jeffrey O Hanson, Hugh P Possingham, Richard A Fuller

Abstract

Migratory species depend on a suite of interconnected sites. Threats to unprotected links in these chains of sites are driving rapid population declines of migrants around the world, yet the extent to which different parts of the annual cycle are protected remains unknown. We show that just 9% of 1451 migratory birds are adequately covered by protected areas across all stages of their annual cycle, in comparison with 45% of nonmigratory birds. This discrepancy is driven by protected area placement that does not cover the full annual cycle of migratory species, indicating that global efforts toward coordinated conservation planning for migrants are yet to bear fruit. Better-targeted investment and enhanced coordination among countries are needed to conserve migratory species throughout their migratory cycle.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 382 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 87 22%
Researcher 68 17%
Student > Master 60 15%
Student > Bachelor 45 11%
Other 15 4%
Other 60 15%
Unknown 63 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 171 43%
Environmental Science 101 25%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 2%
Social Sciences 4 1%
Other 23 6%
Unknown 84 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 694. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 September 2022.
All research outputs
#29,260
of 25,109,675 outputs
Outputs from Science
#1,286
of 80,527 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#289
of 399,493 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#11
of 1,157 outputs
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