Citation:

journal.pbio.3000158

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Abstract:

Conserving threatened species requires identifying where across their range they are being impacted by threats, yet this remains unresolved across most of Earth. Here we present a global analysis of cumulative human impacts on threatened species by using a spatial framework that jointly considers the co-occurrence of eight threatening processes and the distribution of 5,457 terrestrial vertebrates. We show that impacts to species are widespread, occurring across 84% of Earth's surface, and identify hotspots of impacted species richness, and coolspots of unimpacted species richness. Almost one quarter of assessed species are impacted across > 90% of their distribution, and ~7% are impacted across their entire range. These results foreshadow localized extirpations, and potential extinctions, without conservation action. The spatial framework developed here offers a tool for defining strategies to directly mitigate the threats driving species declines, providing essential information for future national and global conservation agendas.

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#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator
1	File name	File name		Allan, James R
2	File format	File format		Allan, James R
3	File size	File size	kByte	Allan, James R
4	Uniform resource locator/link to file	URL file		Allan, James R

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

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