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David A. Keith, José R. Ferrer-Paris, Emily Nicholson, Melanie J. Bishop, Beth A. Polidoro, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Mark G. Tozer, Jeanne L. Nel, Ralph Mac Nally, Edward J. Gregr, Kate E. Watermeyer, Franz Essl, Don Faber-Langendoen, Janet Franklin, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Andres Etter, Dirk J. Roux, Jonathan S. Stark, Jessica A. Rowland, Neil A. Brummitt, Ulla C. Fernandez-Arcaya, Iain M. Suthers, Susan K. Wiser, Ian Donohue, Leland J. Jackson, R. Toby Pennington, Thomas M. Iliffe, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Paul Giller, Belinda J. Robson, Nathalie Pettorelli, Angela Andrade, Arild Lindgaard, Teemu Tahvanainen, Aleks Terauds, Michael A. Chadwick, Nicholas J. Murray, Justin Moat, Patricio Pliscoff, Irene Zager, Richard T. Kingsford A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems Nature DOI:10.1038/s41586-022-05318-4.
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Keith, David A., Ferrer-Paris, José R., Nicholson, Emily, & Kingsford, Richard T. (2020). IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology 2.0 : descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups. Gland, Switzerland : IUCN. xviii, 170p. : ill., maps. ISBN: 978-2-8317-2077-7 DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.13.en
Keith, David A., Ferrer-Paris, José R., Nicholson, Emily, & Kingsford, Richard T. (2023). Indicative distribution maps for Ecosystem Functional Groups - Level 3 of IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (2.1.3) [Data set]. Zenodo.
