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SUBMITTER: Pompa S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3158205 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pompa Sandra S Ehrlich Paul R PR Ceballos Gerardo G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110801 33
We identified 20 global key conservation sites for all marine (123) and freshwater (6) mammal species based on their geographic ranges. We created geographic range maps for all 129 species and a Geographic Information System database for a 46,184 1° x 1° grid-cells, ∼10,000-km(2). Patterns of species richness, endemism, and risk were variable among all species and species groups. Interestingly, marine mammal species richness was correlated strongly with areas of human impact across the oceans. K ...[more]