Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity
Although the entirety of Antarctica is often considered well-protected, increasing and diversifying human activity across the continent demonstrates that this is not the case. The extent of Antarctica’s wilderness remains unknown, despite the fact that the protection of wilderness values and inviola...
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ftmonashunivfig:oai:figshare.com:article/7552256 2023-05-15T13:51:32+02:00 Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity Rachel Leihy Bernard W. T. Coetzee Fraser Morgan Ben Raymond Justine D. Shaw Aleks Terauds Kees Bastmeijer Steven Chown 2020-07-10T01:25:58Z https://doi.org/10.26180/5c32bf1b041ea https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Antarctica_s_wilderness_fails_to_capture_continent_s_biodiversity/7552256 unknown doi:10.26180/5c32bf1b041ea https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Antarctica_s_wilderness_fails_to_capture_continent_s_biodiversity/7552256 CC BY-NC 4.0 CC-BY-NC Conservation and biodiversity Human geography not elsewhere classified Protected areas Human activity Inviolate areas Biodiversity conservation Intact habitat Dataset 2020 ftmonashunivfig https://doi.org/10.26180/5c32bf1b041ea 2022-06-06T15:19:45Z Although the entirety of Antarctica is often considered well-protected, increasing and diversifying human activity across the continent demonstrates that this is not the case. The extent of Antarctica’s wilderness remains unknown, despite the fact that the protection of wilderness values and inviolate areas (areas kept free from human interference) is enshrined in Antarctic Law (Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Art. 3, para.1 and Annex V). We assembled a comprehensive record of ground-based human activity records (~ 2.7 million records; see meta data file), sourced from publications and scientific databases, spanning 1819 to 2018, and used it to identify wilderness areas and their representation of biodiversity. Here, we publish the complete historical human activity record (spatial points) used to identify Negligibly Impacted Antarctic Wilderness areas and Inviolate Antarctic Wilderness areas. We also publish the wilderness grids (rasters and spatial polygons) of the Negligibly Impacted Antarctic Wilderness and Inviolate Antarctic Wilderness areas. Supplementary data for: Leihy, R. I., Coetzee, B. W. T., Morgan, F., Raymond, B., Shaw, J. D., Terauds, A., Bastmeijer, K. & S. L. Chown (2020). Antarctica's wilderness fails to capture continent's biodiversity. Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2506-3 Temporal coverage: 01-01-1819 (Start Date) 31-12-2018 (End Date) Spatial coverage: Latitude: -60 (Northernmost) to -90 (Southernmost) Longitude: -180 (Westernmost) to 180 (Easternmost) Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Monash University: Figshare Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Although the entirety of Antarctica is often considered well-protected, increasing and diversifying human activity across the continent demonstrates that this is not the case. The extent of Antarctica’s wilderness remains unknown, despite the fact that the protection of wilderness values and inviolate areas (areas kept free from human interference) is enshrined in Antarctic Law (Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Art. 3, para.1 and Annex V). We assembled a comprehensive record of ground-based human activity records (~ 2.7 million records; see meta data file), sourced from publications and scientific databases, spanning 1819 to 2018, and used it to identify wilderness areas and their representation of biodiversity. Here, we publish the complete historical human activity record (spatial points) used to identify Negligibly Impacted Antarctic Wilderness areas and Inviolate Antarctic Wilderness areas. We also publish the wilderness grids (rasters and spatial polygons) of the Negligibly Impacted Antarctic Wilderness and Inviolate Antarctic Wilderness areas. Supplementary data for: Leihy, R. I., Coetzee, B. W. T., Morgan, F., Raymond, B., Shaw, J. D., Terauds, A., Bastmeijer, K. & S. L. Chown (2020). Antarctica's wilderness fails to capture continent's biodiversity. Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2506-3 Temporal coverage: 01-01-1819 (Start Date) 31-12-2018 (End Date) Spatial coverage: Latitude: -60 (Northernmost) to -90 (Southernmost) Longitude: -180 (Westernmost) to 180 (Easternmost) |
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Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity |
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