Category: Environmental indicators
Risk type: Biodiversity status
Indicator: Species richness
Provider: IUCN

Count of the number of species potentially occurring in each grid cell. Species richness is an important component of biodiversity, often used to compare the biodiversity of different biological communities. It does not consider the population sizes of individual species in the area or how even the distribution of each species is, but the number of unique species in a given piece of land.

  • Source/link:
  • Unit:
    Nr. Of species
  • Data type:
    Statistics
  • Geographical scope:
    Global
  • Frequency of data aggregation:
    Annual
  • Time coverage (from year):
    2017
  • Time coverage (to year):
    2022
  • Available for download in xls/csv:
    NO
  • Can be disclosed in other formats:
    YES
  • Interactive map/graph available:
    YES