Sub-Saharan Africa Threats to Biodiversity - RedList Analysis

What does this analysis do?

This is the R analysisthat produces the data used for the RedList analysis in Leisher et al. (In Press).

This analysis utilizes the species level threat data from Maxwell et al. 2016 and species range data from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, to extract species level threats for sub-Saharan Africa as a whole (not including island nations) and for each of the four regions, West, Central, East, and Southern, as defined by the United Nations Statiscal Division. The analysis outputs tables with the total counts of each defined threat and the relative ranks of these threat for each of the regions and SSA as a whole.

Inputs

To run this analyis the following is required:

Input Data

1. Data from Maxwell et al. 2016, input as a CSV - Permissions are required to access this data.

2. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species species range data by country, accessed through the Red List API.

API Token

1. A unique API token to access the Red List API through the rredlist R client library.

R Libraries

1. rredlist

Outputs

1. CSVs for SSA and each region containing a list of the species analyzed.

2. CSVs for SSA and each region of the frequency of threats and their relative rankings by count.

3. A combined CSV, containing the frequency of threats and their relative ranking for each of the four sub-regions and SSA.