Following the work of his thesis, LASIGE PhD student Vasco Branco, under supervision of LASIGE integrated researcher Luís Correia and Pedro Cardoso (CE3C/FCUL), published the paper “SPECTRE: Standardised Global Spatial Data on Terrestrial SPecies and ECosystems ThREats“ in “Global Ecology and Biogeography”, a top 10% journal. The paper presents SPECTRE, an open-source database containing 30-arc second resolution, standardised spatial layers on global environmental and anthropogenic variables that are potential threats to terrestrial species and ecosystems. The databse is available in a variety of ways, including as WMS requests through a dedicated R package.

The full paper is available here.