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Jung, M., Dahal, P.R., Butchart, S.H.M., Donald, P.F., Rondini, C., & Visconti, P. (2020). A Global Map Of Species Terrestrial Habitat Types. In: World Biodiversity Forum, 23-28 February 2020, Davos, Switzerland.
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Abstract
The loss of species habitat - described as the entirety of the physical conditions, e.g. land cover and climate - is one of the primary causes of biodiversity decline globally. Knowledge about species habitats is critical to design landscape management plans and conservation prioritizations. Here, we provide a global spatial-explicit characterization of 47 terrestrial habitat types directly relevant to biodiversity conservation. These habitat types broadly follow the standard habitat classification system defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is widely used for assessments of species extinction risk. This habitat type map was produced by intersecting currently best available data on land-cover, climate and land use from a variety of ancillary datasets. We furthermore validate this map using independently derived estimates of observed habitats from biodiversity occurrence records. Overall, these data broaden our knowledge of habitat types globally and will be highly useful for broad-scale ecological studies and a spatial guide for upcoming IUCN redlist assessments. We hope that this data will spur further development of biodiversity-relevant habitat type maps on a global scale.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Research Programs: | Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) |
| Depositing User: | Luke Kirwan |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2020 06:38 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 17:32 |
| URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/16307 |
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