An island view of endemic rarity—Environmental drivers and consequences for nature conservation

Rarity—an important measure for conservation biogeography—can vary over many orders of magnitude. However, it is unclear which regional‐scale abiotic conditions drive processes affecting rarity of endemic species on islands. To support conservation efforts, we (1) assess the main abiotic drivers of endemic rarity, (2) determine how well existing protected areas (PAs) coincide with hotspots of endemic rarity and (3) introduce and evaluate a new hypervolume‐based rarity estimator.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions

• Publication date

  2017-08-06

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ddi.12605
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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