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Sources

Sources for region datasets

Sources for species distribution information

Species group Dataset Source
Birds Jetz Bird Maps Jetz et al. 2012
Mammals Mammal range maps harmonised to the Mammal Diversity Database v1.2 MDD (2020), Map of Life (2021)
Amphibians IUCN Amphibian Range Maps (Link coming soon)IUCN (2022)
Reptiles Global Assessment of Reptile Distributions (GARD 1.7) Roll et al. 2017, Caetano et al. (2022), Roll et al. (2022)

GBIF data used *

GBIF.org (1 June 2022) GBIF Occurrence Download: https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hz87ut
Data from 2001-02-01 to 2021-12-31

eBird data used *

eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relMay-2022. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. May 2022.
Data from 2001-02-01 to 2021-12-31

Sources of taxonomic information

Species group Taxonomic source Total number of speciesTotal cleaned GBIF/eBird records
Birds Jetz et al. (2012) 9,993 568,630,116
Mammals MDD (2020) 6,36012,532,331
Amphibians IUCN (2022) 7,2383,145,460
Reptiles Roll et al. (2022) 10,9142,650,374

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