Retaining natural vegetation to safeguard biodiversity and humanity

The ArcGIS rasters available in this repository represent terrestrial ecosystems (see above mentioned manuscript for definitions and input data) that need to be retained to contribute, respectively, to global environmental targets for biodiversity, carbon, soil and freshwater. A raster map produced by overlapping all four rasters is also provided. The vector map of jurisdictional boundaries was used to extract retention extent by nation.