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