Multinational evaluation of genetic diversity indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Description

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Methods

Data comes from the first multi-country assessment of genetic diversity status, with emphasis on the PM and Ne 500 indicators, including nine countries: Australia, Belgium, Colombia, France, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States of America. Within each country, teams of researchers and conservation practitioners from academia, government institutions, and non-governmental organizations aimed to asses of 50-100 species per country. In total 919 taxa, representing 5,271 populations were assessed. Data comes from different sources depending on the country and the species.

Data was collected using a KoboToolBox (https://www.kobotoolbox.org/) form specifically designed for this project. The resulting dataset was downloaded as a .csv file and processed in R version 4.2.1 using custom functions and a processing pipeline specifically developed for this study for quality checking, indicator calculation, and subsequent analyses. The R code is available from  https://github.com/AliciaMstt/GeneticIndicators or a static version at Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/10620307

Japan's raw data comes from the ancillary data for national red-list evaluation basically based on a field survey provided by the Japanese Society for Plant Systematics. Raw data was provided on the condition that no information that could lead to the species' location in the field would be published, as a way to protect the endangered species. Therefore, for this repository part of the Japan data was obscured or removed, as explained for each variable in the data dictionary.