… of plants with vertebrates, Kier et al. (26) found that global patterns of plant and vertebrate
diversity do correlate, but those correlations vary substantially by vertebrate taxa. Similarly, in …

… We expect ant diversity to correlate with vertebrate diversity, and even be predictable from …
of the global patterns of insect diversity. We compared ants to vertebrates in three ways. First, …

… land-use intensity (LUI) threatens biodiversity remains unclear. We address this knowledge
… : (1) Where do global patterns of LUI coincide with the spatial distribution of biodiversity? (2) …

… of global patterns in biodiversity demonstrate persistent congruence in the species richness
of plants and four classes of terrestrial vertebrates … (a proxy for habitat diversity), climate and …

… for biodiversity conservation is an important issue to meet this target. We investigated the
geographic pattern of terrestrial vertebrate diversity … Global patterns of the beta diversity–energy …

… spatial pattern in terrestrial biodiversity for global conservation assessments. … 6 months leading
up to the fifth World Parks Congress (Durban, South Africa, … Global patterns in biodiversity …

… Since then, some prioritizations have used global range maps of amphibians, birds … of
terrestrial vertebrates, endangered terrestrial vertebrates or range-restricted terrestrial vertebrates (…

… on the survival of global biodiversity. For three groups of terrestrial vertebrates (birds, mammals,
and amphibians), we examined geographic patterns of diversity and protection in Brazil, …

… or Central Africa (for vertebrates) raises a question about the use of these taxa as surrogates
for overall biodiversity patterns. Figure 1 Figure 1 Global patterns of species richness of 639 …

… Methods For each of 762 World Wildlife Fund terrestrial ecoregions of the world, we measured
protected area coverage, resource consumption, terrestrial vertebrate species richness, …