Roadless and Low-Traffic Areas as Conservation Targets in Europe

This paper is part of an initiative launched by the Policy Committee of the Society for Conservation Biology-Europe Section. We are indebted to our colleagues from SCB, especially P. Chylarecki, M. Dieterich, B. Livoreil, O. Nevin and A. Pullin, as well as W. Barthlott and N. Fernandez for support and insightful comments to the manuscript. O. Nevin kindly checked the English. We thank the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) for data facilitation. We also acknowledge funding for Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development provided by the BfN under the research project "Protected areas under climate change" (FKZ 80682270K) and by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the project "Innovation Network Climate Change Adaptation Brandenburg Berlin-INKA BB". We very much appreciated the critical and constructive support provided by four anonymous reviewers