Global and national trends, gaps, and opportunities in documenting and monitoring species distributions
Fig 5
Typologies of nations’ data coverage and trends.
(a) Mean values and change rates in Steward’s SSII over the previous decade (2010–2019). Horizontal dashed line represents the global mean of Steward’s SSII. Left panels show nations with no significant or decreasing trends in coverage. Right panels show nations with significant (p < 0.01) increasing trends in coverage. We categorized nations into the following 4 main types based on Steward’s SSII status and trends over the previous decade: (1) coverage less than the global mean with no or decreasing trend (2010–2019) (42% of nations); (2) coverage less than the global mean with an increasing trend (24%); (3) coverage greater than the global mean with no or decreasing trend (17%); and (4) coverage greater than the global mean with an increasing trend (17%). (b) Example time series for nations within each type. (c) National assignment to quadrants. Bar plot shows percentages of nations within each quadrant. National boundaries from gadm.org. The data underlying this figure may be found in https://mol.org/indicators/coverage and https://github.com/MapofLife/biodiversity-data-gaps. SSII, Species Status Information Index.