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Science 13 November 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5392, pp. 1271 - 1272
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5392.1271
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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests

J. J. Armesto,* R. Rozzi, C. Smith-Ramírez, M. T. K. Arroyo

An important near-term goal of the international conservation agenda is to double the average percentage of land area currently protected in each nation to 10%. The effectiveness of this initiative is evaluated in endemic-rich temperate forests of southern Chile, where 29% of the regional land is under protection. Here biodiversity continues to be at risk because the areas of highest biodiversity remain largely unprotected and are immersed in a heavily managed anthropogenic matrix.

J. J. Armesto, C. Smith-Ramírez, and M. T. K. Arroyo are at the Laboratorio de Sistemática & Ecología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile. R. Rozzi is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-3042 USA.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jarmesto{at}abello.dic.uchile.cl

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