Departament de Biologia Animal (Vertebrats), Facultat de Biologia,
Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, 70040-020,
Brasília, DF, Brazil
G. A. Llorente
Departament de Biologia Animal (Vertebrats), Facultat de Biologia,
Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
L. Rincón
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies,
University of Bath, BA2-7AY, Claverton Down, Bath, UK
R. Lourenço-de-Moraes
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes
Aquáticos Continentais (PEA), Universidade Estadual de Maringá
(UEM), 87020-900, Maringá, PR, Brazil
This study evaluated the efficiency of the protected areas (PAs) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest on the conservation of threatened amphibian species. This brief overview highlights not only the crisis faced by unprotected amphibians, but it also sounds the alarm regarding the situation of species covered by the PAs network. Such context can improve the environmental actions for the PAs integrity and reduce the extinction risk of threatened amphibian species in this region.
This study evaluated the efficiency of the protected areas (PAs) from the Brazilian Atlantic...