Forgotten forests - issues and prospects in biome mapping using Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests as a case study

BMC Ecology

Table 3 Performance of biome maps for SDTF

	Percentage of specimens
Biome map	SDTF		Cerrado		Chaco
	All species	Narrow endemics only	All species	Narrow endemics only	All species	Narrow endemics only
Latin American Biogeography Scheme (LAB) [30]	40.6	36.3	7.6	4.3	8.4	5.7
Americas Basemap (AB) [29]	42.7	42.0	29.9	15.4	3.9	3.1
WWF Ecoregions (ECO) [16]	46.6	43.6	9.9	5.2	5.7	4.9
Land Cover Map (LCM) [17]	14.6 (62.7¹)	16.2 (57.3¹)	6.3	4.5	2.2	2.2
Ecological Systems Map (ESM) [31]	36.4	32.4	13.9	6.6	6.7	5.5

Percentage of specimens which fell into the SDTF biome compared to the two other South American dry biomes, savannas (mainly Cerrado in our analysis) and the Chaco.
¹ Most specimens fall into agricultural land, and if these areas are considered as degraded SDTF, 62.7% of specimens fall into SDTF. This is likely an overestimation as part of the agricultural land could be degraded savannas or Chaco.

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