. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. Carbon and biodiversity Country profile Panama With a land area of 75,500 km:, Panama is home to more than 10,000 species of plants and 1,000 species of birds along with hundreds of mammal and amphibian species. The demonstration map for Panama combines global carbon storage data with detailed information on distributions of species richness of mammals ICIESIN 2008a). birds ICIESIN 2008b] and amphibians ICIESIN 2008c! at a national level obtained from NatureServe (). For this map, areas of high biodiversity value are defined
. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. Carbon and biodiversity Country profile Panama With a land area of 75,500 km:, Panama is home to more than 10,000 species of plants and 1,000 species of birds along with hundreds of mammal and amphibian species. The demonstration map for Panama combines global carbon storage data with detailed information on distributions of species richness of mammals ICIESIN 2008a). birds ICIESIN 2008b] and amphibians ICIESIN 2008c! at a national level obtained from NatureServe (). For this map, areas of high biodiversity value are defined as those with the greatest levels of species richness (the top third of cells). It should be noted that this definition of high biodiversity value does not encompass any measure of threat. According to the data presented here, Panama stores 2 GtC in the vegetation and soil of its terrestrial ecosystems. Approximately 1 Gt of carbon (51 per cent) is in the 'high carbon' areas shown on the map in darker brown. These are areas of high carbon soils in mountainous regions and coastal swamps and the high biomass lowland forests. Areas of high biodiversity value (green shading) cover 31 per cent of the land area of Panama and contain 36 per cent of the total carbon stock. Of particular interest are those areas where high biodiversity values coincide with high carbon density areas, which cover 9,000 km2 in total and contain 20 per cent (or GtC) of the Panamanian carbon stock. This accounts for A0 per cent of the carbon stock in high carbon areas, showing considerable spatial overlap between high carbon stocks and high biodiversity (see diagram, above right) The map also shows that many, but not all of the areas with high carbon and high biodiversity values fall within protected areas. While this illustrative material shows that areas of high carbon and high biodiversity values can be identified through spatial analyses, the use of such information for prioritising REDD related act
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