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Authors and Affiliations

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

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Correspondence to Ana S. L. Rodrigues.

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The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.

Supplementary Information

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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• Received: 21 December 2003

• Accepted: 11 February 2004

• Issue Date: 08 April 2004

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02422