Variable: Protected areas representativeness index

QoG Code: (epi_par)


Dataset: Environmental Performance Index Data 2022

Description:

The PARI indicator measures ecological representativeness as the proportion of biologically scaled environmental diversity included in a country's terrestrial protected areas. The measure relies on remote sensing, biodiversity informatics, and global modeling of fine-scaled variation in biodiversity composition for plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate species.

Original source: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

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Type of variable: Continuous


Last updated by source: 2022-06-06


Categories:

Environment


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Environmental Indicators - 2021 Original Dataset

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This variable has information from the year 1995 to the year 2020