Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. Expert range maps often represent a species' only available distributional information and play an increasing role in conservation assessments and macroecology. We provide global range maps for the native ranges of all extant mammal species harmonised to the taxonomy of the Mammal Diversity Database (MDD) mobilised from two sources, the Handbook of the Mammals of the World (HMW) and the Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World (CMW).

Location

Global.

Taxon

All extant mammal species.

Methods

Range maps were digitally interpreted, georeferenced, error

SUBMITTER: Marsh CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9060555 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature