Biodiversity Intactness Index

The variable is the modeled average abundance of originally-present species, relative to their abundance in an intact ecosystem. Please refer to Newbold et al. (2016) for all details, and please cite it when using these data.

Usage

get_biodiversity_intactness_index(path = NULL)

Arguments

path

A character vector to the biodiversity intactness index ASCII file.

Value

A function that returns an sf footprints object.

Details

To use this data in mapme workflows, you will have to manually download the global data set and point towards the file path on your local machine. Please find the available data under the source link given below.

References

Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson; Andy Arnell; Sara Contu et al. (2016). Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) Science [Data set]. Natural History Museum. doi:10.5519/0009936