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Global Patterns of Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity and Conservation
Clinton Jenkins (NC State University) Stuart Pimm (Duke University) Lucas Joppa (Microsoft Conservation)
SLIDE 2 The Situation
- Many species (5 – 30 million)
- Most are undescribed (~1.5 million with
scientific name)
- Not all are equally vulnerable to extinction
- Their distribution is uneven across the world,
and among taxa
- Identify the critical places to save them
SLIDE 3 Data for Terrestrial Vertebrates
- Mammals & Amphibians (IUCN)
- Birds (BirdLife)
- Finer spatial scale (10 x 10 km)
SLIDE 4 Terrestrial Vertebrate Richness
Distribution data from BirdLife & IUCN
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/info/spcdownload
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Different patterns for each taxon
(total richness) Birds ≈ Mammals Birds and Mammals ≠ Amphibians
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Birds = Total Richness
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Threatened Birds
SLIDE 8 Small-ranged Birds
- 50% of species
- More vulnerable
to extinction
SLIDE 9 Small-ranged Birds
- 50% of species
- More vulnerable
to extinction
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Threatened Birds
Small-ranged Birds
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Threatened Mammals
Small-ranged Mammals
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Threatened Amphibians
Small-ranged Amphibians 2.3% land 50% species
SLIDE 13 Vertebrate Hotspots
highest richness
capture vertebrate diversity?
transparent data
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Comparison with the Myers hotspots
SLIDE 15 Current Protection Levels
- Globally (Jenkins & Joppa 2009)
– 13% of land in protected areas – 6% in strict protected areas
- Vertebrate diversity centers
– 12.6 to 20.4% in protected areas – 7.1 to 11% in strict protected areas
- Better than random…needs to be much better
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Acknowledgments
Data - NatureServe, IUCN, BirdLife, WWF, NASA $$$ - NASA, Moore Foundation, Blue Moon Fund Félix Pharand @ Globaïa SavingSpecies.org
(in press / online at PNAS this week)
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