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Advancing EDGE Zones to identify spatial conservation priorities of tetrapod evolutionary history

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  • Sebastian Pipins

    (On the Edge
    Kew
    Imperial College London
    Imperial College London)

  • Jonathan E. M. Baillie

    (On the Edge)

  • Alex Bowmer

    (On the Edge
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

  • Laura J. Pollock

    (McGill University
    Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences)

  • Nisha Owen

    (On the Edge)

  • Rikki Gumbs

    (Imperial College London
    Zoological Society of London)

Abstract

The biodiversity crisis is pruning the Tree of Life in a way that threatens billions of years of evolutionary history and there is a need to understand where the greatest losses are predicted to occur. We therefore present threatened evolutionary history mapped for all tetrapod groups and describe patterns of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species. Using a complementarity procedure with uncertainty incorporated for 33,628 species, we identify 25 priority tetrapod EDGE Zones, which are insufficiently protected and disproportionately exposed to high human pressure. Tetrapod EDGE Zones are spread over five continents, 33 countries, and 117 ecoregions. Together, they occupy 0.723% of the world’s surface but harbour one-third of the world’s threatened evolutionary history and EDGE tetrapod species, half of which is endemic. These EDGE Zones highlight areas of immediate concern for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and communicators looking to safeguard the tetrapod Tree of Life.

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  • Sebastian Pipins & Jonathan E. M. Baillie & Alex Bowmer & Laura J. Pollock & Nisha Owen & Rikki Gumbs, 2024. "Advancing EDGE Zones to identify spatial conservation priorities of tetrapod evolutionary history," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-51992-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51992-5
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