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Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L, Ondo I, Pironon S, Ravilious C, Rivers M, Schepaschenko D, Tallowin O, van Soesbergen A, Govaerts R, Boyle BL, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Gallagher R, Maitner B, Meiri S, Mulligan M, Ofer G, Roll U, Hanson JO, Jetz W, Di Marco M, McGowan J, Rinnan DS, Sachs JD, Lesiv M, Adams VM, Andrew SC, Burger JR, Hannah L, Marquet PA, McCarthy JK, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Svenning JC, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wynne G, Fritz S, Strassburg BBN, Obersteiner M, Kapos V, Burgess N, Schmidt-Traub G, Visconti P. Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:1499-1509. [PMID: 34429536 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and how multiple targets can be pursued concurrently. To support goal setting and the implementation of international strategies and action plans, spatial guidance is needed to identify which land areas have the potential to generate the greatest synergies between conserving biodiversity and nature's contributions to people. Here we present results from a joint optimization that minimizes the number of threatened species, maximizes carbon retention and water quality regulation, and ranks terrestrial conservation priorities globally. We found that selecting the top-ranked 30% and 50% of terrestrial land area would conserve respectively 60.7% and 85.3% of the estimated total carbon stock and 66% and 89.8% of all clean water, in addition to meeting conservation targets for 57.9% and 79% of all species considered. Our data and prioritization further suggest that adequately conserving all species considered (vertebrates and plants) would require giving conservation attention to ~70% of the terrestrial land surface. If priority was given to biodiversity only, managing 30% of optimally located land area for conservation may be sufficient to meet conservation targets for 81.3% of the terrestrial plant and vertebrate species considered. Our results provide a global assessment of where land could be optimally managed for conservation. We discuss how such a spatial prioritization framework can support the implementation of the biodiversity and climate conventions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Martin Jung
- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, USA
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmondy, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Cambio Global UC, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.,Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso (ISCV), Valparaíso, Chile
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ. Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L, Ondo I, Pironon S, Ravilious C, Rivers M, Schepaschenko D, Tallowin O, van Soesbergen A, Govaerts R, Boyle BL, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Gallagher R, Maitner B, Meiri S, Mulligan M, Ofer G, Roll U, Hanson JO, Jetz W, Di Marco M, McGowan J, Rinnan DS, Sachs JD, Lesiv M, Adams VM, Andrew SC, Burger JR, Hannah L, Marquet PA, McCarthy JK, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Svenning JC, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wynne G, Fritz S, Strassburg BBN, Obersteiner M, Kapos V, Burgess N, Schmidt-Traub G, Visconti P. Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:1557. [PMID: 34556831 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01569-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Martin Jung
- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, USA
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmondy, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Cambio Global UC, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.,Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso (ISCV), Valparaíso, Chile
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ. Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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Roll U, Feldman A, Novosolov M, Allison A, Bauer AM, Bernard R, Böhm M, Castro-Herrera F, Chirio L, Collen B, Colli GR, Dabool L, Das I, Doan TM, Grismer LL, Hoogmoed M, Itescu Y, Kraus F, LeBreton M, Lewin A, Martins M, Maza E, Meirte D, Nagy ZT, Nogueira CDC, Pauwels OSG, Pincheira-Donoso D, Powney GD, Sindaco R, Tallowin O, Torres-Carvajal O, Trape JF, Vidan E, Uetz P, Wagner P, Wang Y, Orme CDL, Grenyer R, Meiri S. Author Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation. Nat Ecol Evol 2017; 2:193. [PMID: 29208994 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0399-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Uri Roll
- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX13QY, UK.,Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 8499000, Israel
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Hawaii Biological Survey, 4 Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, 96817, USA
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- Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 19085, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, NW1 4RY, UK
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- School of Basic Sciences, Physiology Sciences Department, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
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- Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, 70910-900, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 31096, Israel
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, 94300, Malaysia
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- Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- Department of Biology, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA, 92505, USA
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi/CZO, Caixa Postal 399, Belém, Pará, 66017-970, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, MI, 48109-1048, USA
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- Mosaic, (Environment, Health, Data, Technology), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren, 3080, Belgium
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- Joint sExperimental Molecular Unit, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, B-1000, Belgium
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Département des Vertébrés Récents, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, B-1000, Belgium
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- School of Life Sciences, Joseph Banks Laboratories, University of Lincoln, Brayford Campus, Lincoln, LN6 7DL, UK
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- NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
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- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola, TO, I-10022, Italy
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie Médicale, UMR MIVEGEC, Dakar, Senegal
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA
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- Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 19085, USA.,Zoologische Staatssammlung München, München, D-81247, Germany
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX13QY, UK
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
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Roll U, Tallowin O, Berkowic D, Maza E, Ostrometzky Y, Slavenko A, Shacham B, Tamar K, Meiri S. Rueppel’s Snake-eyed Skink, Ablepharus rueppellii (Gray, 1839) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae): distribution extension and geographic range in Israel. cl 2013. [DOI: 10.15560/9.2.458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
Abstract
We report a new locality for Rueppel’s Snake-eyed skink (Ablepharus rueppellii) in Southern Israel – near Shivta Junction. This record extends the known distribution of this species in Israel by ~25km. We examined all known localities of this species in Israel and the adjacent Sinai Peninsula (Egypt), and discuss some discrepancies between them and currently published range maps, including the one produced by the IUCN.
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