biodiversity-datasets.qmd

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## io-biodiversity 

<https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/io-biodiversity>

- optimized cloud source? Yes (STAC + COG + cloud host)
- public access? Yes
- License: CC-BY

## IUCN Range maps / Redlist categories

 - From: <https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/spatial-data-download>
 - `MAMMALS.zip` ESRI shapefile, 2023-05-02
 - `REPTILES.zip` ESRI shapefile, 2023-05-02
 - `AMPHIBIANS.zip` ESRI shapefile 2023-05-02
 - `PLANTS.zip` ESRI shapefile, 2023-05-02
 - `REEF_FORMING_CORALS.zip` ESRI shapefile, 2023-05-02
 - `WRASSES_PARROTFISHES.zip` ESRI shapefile, 2023-05-02
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IUCN Aves data comes from Birds of the World, through a separate request process.

- `birds/BOTW.gdb` ESRI GDB database file, 2023-05-11


## Carbon

  - paper: <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00803-6>
  - download: <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4091028>
  - web: <https://irrecoverable.resilienceatlas.org/map>

Data mirror: cloud-optimized geotif

  - `carbon/Irrecoverable_Carbon_2010/`
    - `Irrecoverable_C_Biomass_2010.tif`
    - `Irrecoverable_C_Soil_2010.tif`
    - `Irrecoverable_C_Total_2010.tif`
    
and corresponding same three COG files for:

  - `carbon/Irrecoverable_Carbon_2018/`
  - `carbon/Manageable_Carbon_2010/`
  - `carbon/Manageable_Carbon_2018/`
  - `carbon/Vulnerable_Carbon_2010/`
  - `carbon/Vulnerable_Carbon_2018/`

## Global Mangrove Watch

<https://www.globalmangrovewatch.org/> 

Has spatial data layers for: 

- Mangrove Habitat Extent
- Mangrove Net Change
- Mangrove Alerts
- Mangrove Restoration
- Mangrove Biomass
- Mangrove Height
- Mangrove Blue Carbon

see: 

- <https://www.mangrovealliance.org/about-us/>
- <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1469347>

Much more data in Google bucket storage: <https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/mangrove_atlas>

S3 products as well, e.g. 

- https://datadownload-production.s3.amazonaws.com/GMW_v3_2015.zip
(or in S3 notation:)
- s3://datadownload-production/GMW_v3_2015.zip

likewise:

- GMW_v3_2016.zip
- GMW_v3_2017.zip
- GMW_v3_2019.zip
- GMW_v3_2020.zip

(note 2018 is missing)

Localized copies on `biodiversity` bucket

## World Protected Areas

Source site: <https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/thematic-areas/wdpa?tab=WDPA>
license: non-commercial <https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/legal>
human-mediated request required: No

- `World-Protected-Areas-May2023.gdb`

maybe also WDOECMs (https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/thematic-areas/oecms?tab=OECMs)

## Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs)

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## EcoRegions

Publicly accessible, CC-BY zip: 

<https://storage.googleapis.com/teow2016/Ecoregions2017.zip>

<https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/RESOLVE_ECOREGIONS_2017>

Resolve 2017 EcoRegions data
- Web App <https://ecoregions2017.appspot.com/> 
- Earth Engine entry: <https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/RESOLVE_ECOREGIONS_2017>

Local snapshot:

# Global Priority Areas

- Data probably from Jung et al (2021) <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7>
(and related, <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2784-9>)

Downloaded from: <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6622029>, descriptionless upload used by `https://github.com/prioritizr/aoh` and `https://github.com/prioritizr/prioritizr`


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# Non-spatially explicit formats

## PREDICTS

 - ref:

## BioTIME

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## LPI

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## GBIF

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## eBird


## MoveBank

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Relevant abiotic environment / climate layers:

# Fire

- CalFire polygons 
- MODIS


# MODIS

- Green biomass metrics, LAI, NDVI, ...

# Global forest watch

- See Hansen tree cover maps

# Land cover

- European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) land use and cover maps?
- Potential land cover maps (for restoration potential, maybe similar to Strassburg et al?)
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Global CO2 total (also flux data available)

# https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/products/carbontracker/co2/CT2022/molefractions/co2_total/


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