On Population Growth Near Protected Areas

Lucas N. Joppa; Scott R. Loarie; Stuart L. Pimm

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004279

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On Population Growth Near Protected Areas

Lucas N. Joppa,

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Scott R. Loarie,

Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Stuart L. Pimm

* E-mail: StuartPimm@me.com

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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On Population Growth Near Protected Areas

Lucas N. Joppa,
Scott R. Loarie,
Stuart L. Pimm

Published: January 26, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004279

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The result remains

Posted by StuartPimm on 04 Feb 2009 at 19:01 GMT

Those with compelling science need not whinge about the process of its dissemination. Ancient wisdom suggests one should not proliferate hypotheses unnecessarily. The basic result remains: population density is not growing disproportionately near protected areas. Only ever more complex data manipulations lead to contrary claims, ones that those who produced the data find to be unjustified.

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