Table 1 Brief title: Forest Landscape Integrity Index scores for each biogeographic realm.

From: Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

Biogeographic realm

Historical forest area

Current forest area

Proportion of forest remaining

FLII

High

Medium

Low

(9.6–10)

(6–9.6)

(0–6)

 

km2

km2

%

Mean

km2

% of realm

km2

% of realm

km2

% of realm

Afrotropic

9,071,897

7,362,740

81.2

7.34

2,450,953

33.3

2,903,483

39.4

2,008,304

27.3

Australasia

2,225,054

1,711,684

76.9

8.05

656,701

38.4

753,188

44

301,796

17.6

Indo-malayan

4,797,518

3,596,249

75.0

5.9

420,977

11.7

1,599,049

44.5

1,576,223

43.8

Neotropic

14,965,342

10,271,519

68.6

7.81

4,579,406

44.6

3,122,706

30.4

2,569,407

25

Oceania

30,746

23,389

76.1

7.66

5,279

22.6

14,331

61.3

3,780

16.2

Palearctic

16,524,088

12,172,668

73.7

8

5,571,997

45.8

3,910,629

32.1

2,690,042

22.1

Nearctic

9,756,589

7,794,117

79.9

7.84

3,716,855

47.7

2,257,518

29

1,819,744

23.3

Total

57,371,234

42,932,367

74.8

7.76

17,402,170

 

14,560,903

 

10,969,294

 
  1. A summary of the Forest Landscape Integrity Index scores for each biogeographic realm globally, measuring the mean score, in addition to the area and proportion of realm for each category of integrity. Scores are divided into three categories of integrity: high, medium, and low.
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