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Supplementary datasets for: Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Supplementary datasets for: Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BV4I06
 
Creator Khoury, Colin K.
Carver, Daniel
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Here we develop a national inventory of CWR of the United States, wherein taxa are classified based on current knowledge of their relation to agricultural crops and their significance as wild food sources. We use occurrence information combined with climatic and topographic data to model the potential distributions of 600 prioritized native wild taxa. We then use ecogeographic tools to conduct preliminary threat assessments and conservation gap analyses for the native CWR. The ecogeographic variation evident in the locations where ex situ conservation samples have been collected, and that evident in species’ ranges distributed within protected natural areas, is measured against the variation found within species’ overall predicted native ranges. Geographic and ecological gaps in current conservation are then identified, providing baseline information for conservation planning, prioritization, and action.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Biodiversity conservation
Diversification
Plant genetic resources
Latin America and the Caribbean
Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
 
Language English
 
Date 2020
 
Contributor Alliance Data Management
 
Type Geospatial Data
Geographic Data