Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth: A new global map of terrestrial ecoregions provides an innovative tool for conserving biodiversity

DM Olson, E Dinerstein, ED Wikramanayake… - …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… of the Earth's intricate patterns of life. We have developed a detailed map of the terrestrial
ecoregions of the world that … We define ecoregions as relatively large units of land containing a …

[HTML][HTML] Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth (PDF, 1.1 M) BioScience 51: 933-938

DM Olson, E Dinerstein, ED Wikramanayake… - 2001 - wis.orasecom.org
map depicts the 825 terrestrial ecoregions of the globe. Ecoregions are relatively large units
of land … of natural communities prior to major land-use change. This comprehensive, global …

The Global 200: Priority ecoregions for global conservation

DM Olson, E Dinerstein - Annals of the Missouri Botanical garden, 2002 - JSTOR
Ecoregions are regional-scale (continental-scale) units of biodiversity. We define ecoregions
as a relatively large area of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural … 2001. …

[PDF][PDF] Terrestrial ecosystems of south America

R Sayre, J Bow, C Josse, L Sotomayor… - North America Land …, 2008 - researchgate.net
… 659 ecosystem types were identified and mapped across the South American continent;
by comparison there are 110 World Wildlife Fund (Olson et al., 2001) terrestrial ecoregions. …

Key Neotropical ecoregions for conservation of terrestrial vertebrates

RD Loyola, U Kubota, GAB da Fonseca… - Biodiversity and …, 2009 - Springer
terrestrial vertebrates in all of the 175 Neotropical ecoregions in which they occur (Olson et
al. 2001… Our assessments were targeted at the minimum ecoregion sets required to represent …

World terrestrial ecosystems

R Sayre, M Martin, D Karagulle, C Frye… - … of the World's …, 2020 - books.google.com
… (including ecoregions), continents, and the planet. Terrestrial ecoregions are understood
as macro-scale ecosystems and are defined as “relatively large units of land containing a …

Freshwater ecoregions of the world: a new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation

…, JV Higgins, TJ Heibel, E Wikramanayake, D Olson… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… We present a new map depicting the first global biogeographic regionalization of Earth's
Terrestrial ecoregion maps and biodiversity data were notable inputs to the framework, but …

Understanding the science and art of ecoregionalization

TA Olstad - The Professional Geographer, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… and evaluating terrestrial, marine, and freshwater geographic units that they call ecoregions
(Olson et al. Citation2001; Stoddard 2004; Spalding et al. 2007; Abell et al. Citation2008). …

An ecoregion-based approach to protecting half the terrestrial realm

E Dinerstein, D Olson, A Joshi, C Vynne… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… Using a map of Earth's 846 terrestrial ecoregions, we show that 98 ecoregions (12%) exceed
Half Protected; 313 ecoregions … for terrestrial biodiversity conservation, we revised the 2001

[書籍][B] A new map of standardized terrestrial ecosystems of the conterminous United States

R Sayre, P Comer, H Warner, J Cress - 2009 - pubs.usgs.gov
… Subsequently, on the basis of an evaluation of and others, 2001). The 30-m EDNA … and
described ecosystems, and a new map of 419 terrestrial it is not included in the geospatial …