mapme.biodiversity: Global Biodiversity Portfolio Indicators

An R package for analyzing biodiversity indicators using freely available geographical datasets. It supports computationally efficient routines for monitoring potentially global biodiversity portfolios. The package was created by Darius A. Görgen to aid evidence-based reporting on biodiversity protection efforts.

Use Cases

• Monitoring changes in primary forest cover based on satellite-derived geographical data.
• Assessing threats to biodiversity areas from human land use practices and climate change.
• Prioritizing regions for conservation intervention based on indicator analysis.
• Reporting on an organization's biodiversity protection efforts with evidence-based metrics.

Strengths

• Package is designed for computational efficiency, enabling analysis of global-scale portfolios.
• Indicators are derived from freely available geographical datasets, promoting accessibility.
• The license is Open Access (diamond), allowing for broad use and distribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Aggregates and analyzes indicators from multiple freely available geographical datasets.

Geography

Global