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GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information

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Title GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information
 
Creator Carver, Daniel
Sosa, Chrystian C.
Khoury, Colin K.
Achicanoy, Harold A.E.
Díaz, Maria Victoria
Sotelo, Steven
Castañeda-Álvarez, Nora P.
Ramírez Villegas, Julián
 
Subject biodiversity
crop wild relatives
ex-situ conservation
conservation agriculture
plant genetic resources
policies
biodiversidad
especies silvestres afín a las plantas cultivadas
conservación ex-situ
 
Description Effective assessments of the current status of biodiversity conservation are needed to support planning, policy and action, from local to global levels. Of particular use would be well documented, reproducible methods based on openly accessible data and tools. Such methods should provide an accurate estimate of the state of conservation of diversity, identifying gaps in current conservation systems, while providing a benchmark against which to measure success, including determining when conservation goals have been met. Here we introduce GapAnalysis, an open source R package developed to support the assessment of the state of conservation of taxa, both ex situ (in genebanks, botanic gardens and other repositories) and in situ (in protected natural areas). The eco‐geographic variation maintained in conservation repositories and that present within protected natural areas is compared with the full extent of eco‐geographic variation predicted within species' native ranges. Eco‐geographic conservation gaps are identified, and taxa are then prioritized for further action. The package enables users to quickly determine conservation status, gaps and priorities for as few as one to as many as thousands of taxa, for any wild flora or fauna for which occurrence data and species distribution models are available. To demonstrate the use of GapAnalysis, we provide case studies for wild plant taxa in the genera Capsicum L. and Cucurbita L, with an accompanying online R tutorial for three of the Cucurbita species.
 
Date 2021-07
2021-05-13T07:35:20Z
2021-05-13T07:35:20Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Carver, D.; Sosa, C.C.; Khoury, C.K.; Achicanoy, H.A.; Diaz, M.V.; Sotelo, S.; Castañeda‐Álvarez, N.P.; Ramirez‐Villegas, J. (2021) GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information. Ecography 44 p. 1-10. ISSN: 0906-7590
0906-7590
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113708
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05430
 
Language en
 
Relation https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116572
 
Rights CC-BY-3.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 1000-1009
application/pdf
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Ecography