about.qmd

---
title: "About this project"
author: 
  - name: 
      given: "José R."
      family: "Ferrer-Paris"
    email: j.ferrer@unsw.edu.au
    orcid: 0000-0002-9554-3395
    url: https://github.com/jrfep
    affiliations:
      - id: ces
        name: Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW
        city: Sydney
        country: Australia
        url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ecosystem
      - id: udash
        name: UNSW Data Science Hub, UNSW
        city: Sydney
        country: Australia
        url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/udash
      - id: iucn
        name: IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
        city: Gland
        country: Switzerland 
        url: https://www.iucn.org/our-union/commissions/group/iucn-cem-red-list-ecosystems-thematic-group
---

# Contact
This page is maintained by José R. Ferrer-Paris on behalf of the [IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Science Team](https://github.com/red-list-ecosystem).

# Citation
This page is part of the publication:

David A. Keith,
José R. Ferrer-Paris,
Emily Nicholson,
Melanie J. Bishop,
Beth A. Polidoro,
Eva Ramirez-Llodra,
Mark G. Tozer,
Jeanne L. Nel,
Ralph Mac Nally,
Edward J. Gregr,
Kate E. Watermeyer,
Franz Essl,
Don Faber-Langendoen,
Janet Franklin,
Caroline E. R. Lehmann,
Andres Etter,
Dirk J. Roux,
Jonathan S. Stark,
Jessica A. Rowland,
Neil A. Brummitt,
Ulla C. Fernandez-Arcaya,
Iain M. Suthers,
Susan K. Wiser,
Ian Donohue,
Leland J. Jackson,
R. Toby Pennington,
Thomas M. Iliffe,
Vasilis Gerovasileiou,
Paul Giller,
Belinda J. Robson,
Nathalie Pettorelli,
Angela Andrade,
Arild Lindgaard,
Teemu Tahvanainen,
Aleks Terauds,
Michael A. Chadwick,
Nicholas J. Murray,
Justin Moat,
Patricio Pliscoff,
Irene Zager,
Richard T. Kingsford
*A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems* **Nature** DOI:[10.1038/s41586-022-05318-4](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05318-4).

# Related resources

* You can explore the ecosystems of the world in our webapp [//global-ecosystems.org](https://global-ecosystems.org).

* Keith, David A., Ferrer-Paris, José R., Nicholson, Emily, & Kingsford, Richard T. (2020). **IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology 2.0 : descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups**. Gland, Switzerland : IUCN. xviii, 170p. : ill., maps. ISBN: 978-2-8317-2077-7 DOI: [10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.13.en](https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.13.en)

* The [IUCN Red List of Ecosystems official site](https://iucnrle.org/)

* [Context of the Global Ecosystem Typology](https://iucnrle.org/global-eco-typo)

* Keith, David A., Ferrer-Paris, José R., Nicholson, Emily, & Kingsford, Richard T. (2023). *Indicative distribution maps for Ecosystem Functional Groups - Level 3 of IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (2.1.3)* [Data set]. **Zenodo**. [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.3546513.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513){target='zenodo'}