Mapping global land sharing-sparing patterns between human and wildlife
Zhang, C.; Wang, Y.; Pan, S.; Yang, B.; Zhan, X.; Chang, J.; Li, J.; Dai, Q.
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Understanding the global patterns of land sharing-sparing between humans and wildlife is essential for pragmatic conservation implementation, yet analytical foundations and indicator-based assessments are still lacking. By integrating distributions of 30,664 terrestrial vertebrates and human pressures, we provide a series of spatial explicit Human-Nature Indices (HNIs) before classifying the global lands into four categories. We found that the Co-occurring (C) regions, where lands are shared by humans and wildlife, are not insignificant (16.91% of global land). For land-sparing, the Diversity-intact (D) and the Anthropic (A) regions account for 45.64% and 1.41% of the land, respectively. The patterns of HNIs, varying considerably among taxonomic groups, are determined mainly by the expansion of human-dominated land use. Land sharing and sparing could work as complementary strategies to support biodiversity and human development toward ambitious and pragmatic 30 by 30 goals. Our results highlight that those regions should adopt different conservation strategies according to their sharing-sparing patterns and distribution of protected areas.
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