Environmental Values

Environmental Values-min
A composite map of environmental values
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Detailed information on all of the individual components that were used to construct the global road map and explanations on how the individual data layers were integrated.  The individual data layers are provided below.

Individual components of the Environmental-values Map

  • Supplementary Figure 1. The number of threatened terrestrial vertebrate species (birds, mammals, amphibians) that are listed as Threatened, Endangered, or Critically Endangered.
  • Supplementary Figure 2. Estimated number of plant species per ecoregion globally, adjusted for ecoregion area (no. species 10,000-km-2).
  • Supplementary Figure 3. Integrated biodiversity layer, incorporating data on threatened vertebrates and plant diversity.
  • Supplementary Figure 4. The geographic distribution of 35 biodiversity hotspots globally.
  • Supplementary Figure 5. Distribution of important Bird Areas and Endemic Bird Areas globally.
  • Supplementary Fig. 6. Distribution of Global 200 terrestrial ecoregions across Earth’s land surface.
  • Supplementary Figure 7. Merged layer showing the combined distribution of High-biodiversity Wilderness Areas and Frontier Forests.
  • Supplementary Figure 8. Composite map of key habitats and wilderness globally.
  • Supplementary Figure 9. Estimated carbon-stock losses (Mg C ha-1) from the conversion of vegetation to agriculture.
  • Supplementary Figure 10. Magnitude of climate-regulation services (0-1 index of temperature and moisture regulation) from natural terrestrial vegetation.
  • Supplementary Figure 11. Composite map of carbon storage and climate-regulation services provided by terrestrial vegetation.