Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) - years 1900-2014 (1)

49-100% *


* A value around 50% indicates that the species originally present are on average only half as abundant compared with pristine conditions (pre-industrial climate period)

Built-up areas (2)

(1) Tim Newbold; Lawrence N Hudson; Andrew P Arnell; Sara Contu et al. (2016). Dataset: Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) Science. Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk)

(2) Corbane, C., Florczyk, A., Pesaresi, M., Politis, P., Syrris, V. (2018): GHS built-up grid, derived from Landsat, multitemporal (1975-1990-2000-2014), R2018A. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)