This repository contains results from the IUCN Red List of Ecosystem assessment for the tropical and temperate forests macrogroups of the Americas. A summary of the assessment is available on-line.
## Citation
The original assessment and analysis was published in:
Ferrer-Paris, J.R., Zager, I., Keith, D.A., Oliveira-Miranda, M.A., Rodríguez, J.P, Josse, C., González-Gil, M., Miller, R.M., Zambrana-Torrelio, C., Barrow, E., 2019. An ecosystem risk assessment of temperate and tropical forests of the Americas with an outlook on future conservation strategies. Conserv. Lett. 12. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12623
## Links
The original results dataset (summary tables in Rdata format) is available at:
Ferrer-Paris, José R. (2018): IUCN Red List of Ecosystem assessment results for IVC Forest Macrogroups in the Americas region. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7488872.v1
and a more comprehensive set of results is available from
José R. Ferrer Paris, & Irene Zager. (2021). IUCN Red List of Ecosystems of the forest Macrogroups of the Americas: First release of original dataset (v1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5168500
## Derived analysis
Output of this dataset was also used to illustrate the application of Ecosystem indices in the following publication :
Rowland JA, Bland LM, Keith DA, Juffe‐Bignoli D, Burgman MA, Etter A, Ferrer‐Paris JR, Miller RM, Skowno AL, Nicholson E. 2020. Ecosystem indices to support global biodiversity conservation. Conservation Letters 13:311. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12680