Kinda surprised Alaska isn’t higher

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Alaska has relatively low biodiversity, in part because its climate has changed so dramatically in the last 20k years.

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Great information!

I’d be curious to know:

1. How would/does the density and diversity of the animals in a state affect these numbers. Assuming something like deserts have less biodiversity than wetter areas. Is it possible to classify “total biodiversity in this area / how much of it is endangered”

2. How much does this data depend on what the state classifies as worth saying is endangered. I often hear a “joke” that california protects endangered forests louses, which is why they don’t clean forest floors before fires. I don’t take this for fact, but I would think California is more motivated to classify things as endangered then other states. Who is “reporting” what is endangered, is there bias in the state that may hide endangered species from being counted?

Hope these follow up questions help for whatever you are doing! Thanks again for the information!

We have a lot of ecosystems. Nevada is way more than just a desert.

The most shocking thing is Alaska at 33. You’d think the largest state would have more with its rapidly warming climate.

You also managed to use on of the worst map projections.

Im supprised NV is so high, I live in Vegas & I didnt know we even had 40 native spieces to be endangered.

What? Going by value of aircraft probably makes the ranking less weighed in favor of Russia and China, no?

Sources: IUCN, GBIF

Tools: R, QGIS

Notes: This map depicts the number of endangered species in each US state. The data in this map are based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species which classifies organisms by their risk of global extinction. The species used to create this list are categorized as either Endangered or Critically Endangered. The data were pulled from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility which houses publicly available species occurrence data from citizen science projects such as iNaturalist and eBird as well as institutional and governmental surveys. This map includes animal, fungi, and plant species found in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. I created an older version of this map around two years ago and thought that it was due for an upgrade. I released this map today since it's the 50th anniversary of the signing of the US Endangered Species Act into law. We've come a long way, but there is still more to be done in the way of protecting species from extinction. As always if you have any praise, constructive criticism or questions, let me know! I love hearing from you all! Remember to be kind to others and as always stay awesome Reddit!

Is it my colour-blindness, or is that colour scale reeeeeally bad?

log scale might be more appropriate

GDP is generally regarded as a "more is better, everyone benefits, the economy thrives" thing.

Military Expenditure is black hole into which you pour money and misery emerges.

Defense per GDP is a biased statistic invented by pro defense budget people in the U.S. The U.S. has by far the largest GDP in the world so they use this statistic to water down our gigantic budget into a manipulated number. A poor man with a gun is paying just as much as a rich man with the same gun.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio

Software: LibreOffice Calc, Gimp

Pretty sure those China numbers are incorrect.. unless the msm is lying to me

That’s fair thanks for sharing. I didn’t think your comment was completely outrageous, but definitely was a big statement to make.

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I love how everyone is about avrage, china is there being a bit above... And then there is America being America

...a military career with heavy exposure to FMS, logistics, and strategic planning? You can't quantify the value or benefit of global military power projection, so obviously there isn't some peer-reviewed study to cite. However, the infrastructure of the U.S. military is light years ahead of anything else the world has ever seen. It's past the point that money is a limfac in what's possible or not.

It's a great strategy for peacetime. I think a lot of European nations are rethinking it in light of Russian aggression.