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A global map of terrestrial habitat types

We provide a global, spatially explicit characterization of 47 terrestrial habitat types, as defined in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) habitat classification scheme, which is widely used in ecological analyses, including for quantifying species’ Area of Habitat. We produce...

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Autores principales: Jung, Martin, Dahal, Prabhat Raj, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Donald, Paul F., De Lamo, Xavier, Lesiv, Myroslava, Kapos, Valerie, Rondinini, Carlo, Visconti, Piero
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32759943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00599-8
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author Jung, Martin
Dahal, Prabhat Raj
Butchart, Stuart H. M.
Donald, Paul F.
De Lamo, Xavier
Lesiv, Myroslava
Kapos, Valerie
Rondinini, Carlo
Visconti, Piero
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De Lamo, Xavier
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Kapos, Valerie
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Visconti, Piero
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description We provide a global, spatially explicit characterization of 47 terrestrial habitat types, as defined in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) habitat classification scheme, which is widely used in ecological analyses, including for quantifying species’ Area of Habitat. We produced this novel habitat map for the year 2015 by creating a global decision tree that intersects the best currently available global data on land cover, climate and land use. We independently validated the map using occurrence data for 828 species of vertebrates (35152 point plus 8181 polygonal occurrences) and 6026 sampling sites. Across datasets and mapped classes we found on average a balanced accuracy of 0.77 ([Formula: see text] 0.14 SD) at Level 1 and 0.71 ([Formula: see text] 0.15 SD) at Level 2, while noting potential issues of using occurrence records for validation. The maps broaden our understanding of habitats globally, assist in constructing area of habitat refinements and are relevant for broad-scale ecological studies and future IUCN Red List assessments. Periodic updates are planned as better or more recent data becomes available.
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spelling pubmed-74065042020-08-13 A global map of terrestrial habitat types Jung, Martin Dahal, Prabhat Raj Butchart, Stuart H. M. Donald, Paul F. De Lamo, Xavier Lesiv, Myroslava Kapos, Valerie Rondinini, Carlo Visconti, Piero Sci Data Data Descriptor We provide a global, spatially explicit characterization of 47 terrestrial habitat types, as defined in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) habitat classification scheme, which is widely used in ecological analyses, including for quantifying species’ Area of Habitat. We produced this novel habitat map for the year 2015 by creating a global decision tree that intersects the best currently available global data on land cover, climate and land use. We independently validated the map using occurrence data for 828 species of vertebrates (35152 point plus 8181 polygonal occurrences) and 6026 sampling sites. Across datasets and mapped classes we found on average a balanced accuracy of 0.77 ([Formula: see text] 0.14 SD) at Level 1 and 0.71 ([Formula: see text] 0.15 SD) at Level 2, while noting potential issues of using occurrence records for validation. The maps broaden our understanding of habitats globally, assist in constructing area of habitat refinements and are relevant for broad-scale ecological studies and future IUCN Red List assessments. Periodic updates are planned as better or more recent data becomes available. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7406504/ /pubmed/32759943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00599-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the metadata files associated with this article.
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