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Data for: Madagascar's rapidly declining biodiversity: Patterns, trends, and opportunities for terrestrial conservation and restoration

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • 2. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
  • 4. CIBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
  • 5. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
  • 6. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • 7. Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, USA
  • 8. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 9. CR2P, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 10. University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
  • 11. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 12. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 13. Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 14. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lúrio University, Pemba, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
  • 15. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  • 16. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA
  • 17. Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 18. Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Association Vahatra, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • 19. State University of Maranhão, Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 20. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK; Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
  • 21. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland; School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 22. Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, USA; Institut de Systématique, Évolution, et Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
  • 23. Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Antananarivo, Madagascar; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Association Vahatra, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • 24. Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  • 25. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 26. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 27. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  • 28. Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
  • 29. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK; Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA
  • 30. University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • 31. Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, University of La Serena, La Serena, Chile; Programa de Doctorado en Biología y Ecología Aplicada, Universidad Católica del Norte, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 32. Ileiry Geospatial Services, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • 33. WWF, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • 34. Plant Conservation Unit, Department of Biological Sciendces, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • 35. Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
  • 36. Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 37. Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 38. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK; Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
  • 39. Cologne Zoo/Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
  • 40. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Description

CatalogueOfPlantsOfMadagascar.csv -- Comma-separated table with comprehensive taxonomic database of plants of Madagascar, from the “Catalogue of the Plants of Madagascar” project. Contact: Peter Phillipson - peter.phillipson@mobot.org and Marina Rabarimanarivo - marina.rabarimanarivo@mobot.mg


Ex_situ_plants.xlsx -- Excel spreadsheet with numbers of ex situ conserved plant species, per family, from BGCI’s PlantSearch database and collections of Jardin Botanique Educatif and Parc Ivoloina. Contact: Malin Rivers - malin.rivers@bgci.org


Ex_situ_vertebrates.xlsx -- Excel spreadsheet with the list of extant native Malagasy vertebrates with information on their presence in at least one international zoo holding and whether they have been bred successfully over the last 12 months. Data from the Zoological Information Management (ZIM) Software performed in February 2021. Contact: Angelica Crottini - tiliquait@yahoo.it


Extinct_Animals_madagascar.csv -- Comma-separated table of all known anthropogenic extinctions before 1500 CE in Madagascar. Contact: Ferran Sayol - fsayol@gmail.com


features_predict210325_predictions.txt -- Tab-separated table with results of the conservation status prediction from a Bayesian Neural Network for 5,887 species of vascular plants from Madagascar. Values are the mean posterior probabilities for each IUCN Red List category. Contact: Daniele Silvestro - daniele.silvestro@unifr.ch


Fossils_Madagascar.csv -- Comma-separated table with Malagasy fossil records, downloaded from the PaleoBiology Database. Contact: Juan Carillo - juan.carrillo@mnhn.fr


Fungi_supplementary_material.zip -- Zipped archive containing: R script to get fungal endemism estimates from GBIF/UNITE and process data; comma-separated tables from GBIF, PlutoF, Goodman lichen checklist and Index Fungorum (as of 02/12/20): comma-separated table listing Madagascan taxa with endemism status. Contact: Rowena Hill - r.hill @kew.org


Genera_records_world.csv -- Comma-separated table with worldwide fossil records for Malagasy species, downloaded from the PaleoBiology Database. -- Juan Carillo - juan.carrillo@mnhn.fr


lineage_data_clean_v4.csv -- Comma-separated table with crown and stem ages, number of species, and geographic origin or distribution of sister clade of Malagasy endemic lineages, extracted from the literature. Contact: Jan Hackel - j.hackel@kew.org and Angelica Crottini - tiliquait@yahoo.it


Madagascar Protected Areas - Sources.csv -- Comma-separated table with comments and sources for columns in the protected area data in the csv and shapefile. Contact: Maria S. Vorontsova - m.vorontsova@kew.org


Madagascar_terrestrial_protected_areas.csv -- Comma-separated values matching the data within the Protected Area Shapefile except the shapes. Contact: Daniel Edler - daniel.edler@umu.se and Henintsoa Razanajatovo - H.Razanajatovo@kew.org


Madagascar_terrestrial_protected_areas.zip -- ESRI Shapefile for the synthesized protected areas of Madagascar, including Key Biodiversity Areas and attributes. Contact: Daniel Edler - daniel.edler@umu.se and Rasolohery Andriambolantsoa - arasolohery@ileiry.com


moatsmith_1km_extended.zip -- Raster geotiff with new expanded vegetation types based on Moat & Smith (2007). Contact: Justin Moat - j.moat@kew.org


Observed_and_predicted_threats.csv -- Comma-separated table with the number of species with each listed threat, as defined by the IUCN or predicted by our model, across taxonomic groups. Contact: Rob Cooke - 03rcooke@gmail.com


PhylogeneticDiversityMethods.zip -- Zipped archive containing community matrices, species range shapefiles, and R script used to estimate phylogenetic diversity for amphibians, mammals, and reptiles. Contact: Weston Testo - westontesto@gmail.com

 

predicting_species_IUCN_status.zip -- Zipped archive containing data, scripts and an Rstudio project to: (1) prepare features for using IUCNN v1.0 to predict the conservation status for Not Evaluated species (01_feature_preparation); (2) predict species IUCN status assessment using neural networks (02_predicting_species_IUCN_status); (3) predict species’ threat status using neural networks (03_predicting_species_threats). Contact: Alexander Zizka - alexander.zizka@idiv.de and Daniele Silvestro - daniele.silvestro@unifr.ch


SpeciesRichnessModelingOccurrences.csv -- Comma-separated table with specimen-based occurrence data for Malagasy amphibians, grasses, lemurs, palms, reptiles, and Sarcolaenaceae. Contact: Weston Testo - westontesto@gmail.com


TaxonDescriptionByYear.csv -- Comma-separated table with years of basionym publication for Malagasy amphibians, reptiles, vascular plants, and ants. Contact: Weston Testo - westontesto@gmail.com


VertebrateSpeciesList.csv -- Comma-separated table with species list of amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles of Madagascar (curated list based on IUCN data). Contact: Weston Testo - westontesto@gmail.com

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