Exploring a Global Wildlife GIS database
<p>The IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species database contains more than 150,000 species, with geospatial information about habitats attributed to 80%+ of them. This database’s mere size proposes several challenges, which I may address in a later article. For now, I focus on a smaller subset — the global database consisting of terrestrial mammals with 12,436 records, each corresponding to one habitat patch per species. This mammal-habitat database is based on around four hundred different sources and contains 5,626 species identified by their binomial names, registered between 2008 and 2022. Furthermore, the database includes detailed taxonomic information, such as the order and family of the species. Additionally, a primary strength of the database is that it has detailed geospatial information on habitats in the form of polygon files, which I will explore in more detail later.</p>
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