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The Global 200: Priority Ecoregions for Global Conservation
Abstract
A global strategy to conserve biodiversity must aim to protect representative examples of all of the world's ecosystems, as well as those areas that contain exceptional concentrations of species and endemics. Although lacking the richness of tropical forests, deserts, tropical lakes, and subpolar seas all contain distinct species, communities, and ecological phenomena. We analyzed global patterns of biodiversity to identify a set of the Earth's terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions that harbor exceptional biodiversity and are representative of its ecosystems. We placed each of the Earth's ecoregions within a system of 30 biomes and biogeographic realms to facilitate a representation analysis. Biodiversity features were compared among ecoregions to assess their irreplaceability or distinctiveness. These features included species richness, endemic species, unusual higher taxa, unusual ecological or evolutionary phenomena, and the global rarity of habitats. This process yielded 238 ecoregions-the Global 200-comprised of 142 terrestrial, 53 freshwater, and 43 marine priority ecoregions. Effective conservation in this set of ecoregions would help conserve the most outstanding and representative habitats for biodiversity nn this planet.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Olson, D. M., & Dinerstein, E.
- Venue
- Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 199
- ISSN
- 0026-6493 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1964996721
- Cited by
- 1,526
- References
- 56
- FWCI
- 6.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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