Antarctic's wilderness fails to capture continent's biodiversity

Although the entirety of Antarctica is often considered well-protected, increasing and diversifying human activity across the continent demonstrates that this is not the case. The extent of Antarctica’s wilderness remains unknown, despite the fact that the protection of wilderness values and inviolate areas (areas kept free from human interference) is enshrined in Antarctic Law (Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Art. 3, para.1 and Annex V).

We assembled a comprehensive record of ground-based human activity records (~ 2.7 million records; see meta data file), sourced from publications and scientific databases, spanning 1819 to 2018, and used it to identify wilderness areas and their representation of biodiversity.

Here, we publish the complete historical human activity record (spatial points) used to identify Negligibly Impacted Antarctic Wilderness areas and Inviolate Antarctic Wilderness areas. We also publish the wilderness grids (rasters and spatial polygons) of the Negligibly Impacted Antarctic Wilderness and Inviolate Antarctic Wilderness areas.

Supplementary data for: Leihy, R. I., Coetzee, B. W. T., Morgan, F., Raymond, B., Shaw, J. D., Terauds, A., Bastmeijer, K. & S. L. Chown (2020). Antarctica's wilderness fails to capture continent's biodiversity. Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2506-3

尽管南极大陆整体常被视为得到了完善保护，但该大陆上人类活动日益增多且形式愈发多元的现状表明，事实并非如此。南极荒野的覆盖范围至今仍不明确，尽管保护荒野价值与不受侵犯区域（即完全不受人类干扰的区域）的相关条款已载入南极法律体系（《南极条约环境保护议定书》（Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty）第3条第1款及附件五）。
我们整合了一套覆盖1819年至2018年的地面人类活动综合记录（约270万条；详见元数据（meta data）文件），数据来源涵盖各类出版物与科学数据库，并借此识别出南极荒野区域及其生物多样性（biodiversity）代表性。
在此，我们发布用于识别受影响极小的南极荒野区域与不受侵犯的南极荒野区域的完整历史人类活动记录（空间点位（spatial points）数据）；同时发布对应两类南极荒野区域的荒野网格数据，包含栅格（rasters）与空间多边形（spatial polygons）两种格式。
本数据集为以下论文的补充数据：Leihy, R. I., Coetzee, B. W. T., Morgan, F., Raymond, B., Shaw, J. D., Terauds, A., Bastmeijer, K. 与 S. L. Chown（2020）。《南极荒野未能覆盖大陆全域生物多样性》（Antarctica's wilderness fails to capture continent's biodiversity）。《自然》（Nature），https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2506-3