Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2022 Jan;601(7894):E14-E15.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03708-8. Epub 2022 Jan 26.

The Living Planet Index does not measure abundance

Mikael Puurtinen  1   2 , Merja Elo  3   4 , Janne S Kotiaho  3   4
Affiliations
Comment

The Living Planet Index does not measure abundance

Mikael Puurtinen et al. Nature. 2022 Jan.
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment in

Comment on

References

    1. Almond, R. E. A., Grooten, M. & Petersen, T. (eds) Living Planet Report 2020 – Bending the Curve of Biodiversity Loss (WWF, 2020).
    1. Leung, B. et al. Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines. Nature 588, 267–271 (2020). - DOI
    1. Buckland, S. T., Studeny, A. C., Magurran, A. E., Illian, J. B. & Newson, S. E. The geometric mean of relative abundance indices: a biodiversity measure with a difference. Ecosphere 2, 1–15 (2011). - DOI
    1. McRae, L., Deinet, S. & Freeman, R. The diversity-weighted living planet index: controlling for taxonomic bias in a global biodiversity indicator. PLoS ONE 12, e0169156 (2017). - DOI
    1. Leung, B., Greenberg, D. A. & Green, D. M. Trends in mean growth and stability in temperate vertebrate populations. Divers. Distrib. 23, 1372–1380 (2017). - DOI

LinkOut - more resources