Digital Distribution Maps of the Mammals of the Western Hemisphere

This data set contains distribution information for all mammals occurring in the Western Hemisphere. The goal of this project is to make this distributional information freely available to the public to inform conservation and other land-use decisions. A Memorandum of Understanding signed by NatureS...

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Main Authors: NCEAS 4080: Synthesis of the biodiversity knowledge base: Towards a global database of terrestrial vertebrate distributions., National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Thomas Brooks, Gerardo Ceballos, Lucia Luna, Pablo Ortega, Bruce Patterson, Irma Salazar, Wes Sechrest, Marcelo Tognelli, Bruce Young
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Published: Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5063/AA/connolly.126.1
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Summary:This data set contains distribution information for all mammals occurring in the Western Hemisphere. The goal of this project is to make this distributional information freely available to the public to inform conservation and other land-use decisions. A Memorandum of Understanding signed by NatureServe, The Nature Conservancy/Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International/CABS, World Wildlife Fund-US, and Environment Canada governs the development and sharing of these data.