The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology

The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. This typology will help identify the ecosystems that are most critical for biodiversity conservation, research, management and human wellbeing into the future.

This IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology introduction was presented as a part of the Red List of Ecosystems in Action webinar held on June 29, 2021. It is presented here by José R. Ferrer-Paris of the RLE team and Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

An interactive website for the typology can be found here: https://global-ecosystems.org

The associated publication, The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology 2.0: Descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups (2020), can be found here: https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020....