get_gmw

This resource is part of the publication by Bunting et al. (2018)
"The Global Mangrove Watch—A New 2010 Global Baseline of Mangrove Extent".
The polygons represent the mangrove, which is tropical coastal vegetation
and considered the most significant part of the marine ecosystem. This
resource is available for the selected years in the period 1996- 2020 from
Global Mangrove Watch (GMW), providing geospatial information about global
mangrove extent.

resource

Biodiversity areas, especially primary forest, serve a
multitude of functions for local economy, regional functionality of
the ecosystems as well as the global health of our planet. Recently,
adverse changes in human land use practices and climatic responses to
increased greenhouse gas emissions, put these biodiversity areas under
a variety of different threats. The present package helps to analyse a
number of biodiversity indicators based on freely available
geographical datasets. It supports computational efficient routines
that allow the analysis of potentially global biodiversity portfolios.
The primary use case of the package is to support evidence based
reporting of an organization's effort to protect biodiversity areas
under threat and to identify regions were intervention is most duly
needed.

Darius A. Görgen

mapme.biodiversity

Efficient Monitoring of Global Biodiversity Portfolios

Om Prakash Bhandari

Andreas Petutschnig

gmw function

<dl><dt>years</dt>
<dd>A numeric vector of the years for which to make GMW available.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Global Mangrove Extent Polygon — gmw

<dl>

<dt>years</dt>
<dd>A numeric vector of the years for which to make GMW available.</dd>

</dl>

gmw: Global Mangrove Extent Polygon

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