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- The biodiversity crisis is significantly impacting evolutionary history, threatening tetrapod species and their habitats.
- Researchers mapped threatened evolutionary history for tetrapods, identifying 25 crucial EDGE Zones that are underprotected and face high human pressure.
- These EDGE Zones, covering just 0.723% of the Earth's surface, contain a third of the world's threatened evolutionary history and many endemic species, indicating urgent action is needed to protect them.
Article Abstract
The biodiversity crisis is pruning the Tree of Life in a way that threatens billions of years of evolutionary history and there is a need to understand where the greatest losses are predicted to occur. We therefore present threatened evolutionary history mapped for all tetrapod groups and describe patterns of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species. Using a complementarity procedure with uncertainty incorporated for 33,628 species, we identify 25 priority tetrapod EDGE Zones, which are insufficiently protected and disproportionately exposed to high human pressure. Tetrapod EDGE Zones are spread over five continents, 33 countries, and 117 ecoregions. Together, they occupy 0.723% of the world's surface but harbour one-third of the world's threatened evolutionary history and EDGE tetrapod species, half of which is endemic. These EDGE Zones highlight areas of immediate concern for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and communicators looking to safeguard the tetrapod Tree of Life.
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