Fig. 5: Results of the systematic conservation planning process for Mesoamerican crop wild relatives in Mexico, based on the scenario considering potential distribution models subdivided by proxies of genetic differentiation, SDM*PGD (see Fig. 4, scenario iv), and including occurrence records for taxa without SDM, IUCN threat categories, and specific habitat preferences (see text for details).
From: Incorporating evolutionary and threat processes into crop wild relatives conservation
(a) Hierarchical landscape priority rank map, where the 10% most valuable fraction is within the most valuable 20% fraction; the most valuable 20% is within the most valuable 30%; thus expressed as accumulated area. (b) Conservation area proposal considering 20% of Mexico’s terrestrial area to maximize the representation of taxa and proxies of genetic differentiation (see Fig. 6). Federal protected areas and areas where indigenous communities live are displayed to show the coincidence with these areas, although the criteria were not considered in the spatial analysis. [Spatial data is licensed under CC-BY 4.0; country boundaries according to Natural Earth. Images of the following taxa were included to show its subsistence in a given area: (a) Phaseolus maculatus, Solanum tuberosum, Persea americana, Persea schiedeana, Tripsacum pilosum, Vainilla inodora, Zea mays subsp. mays. (b) Capsicum annuum var. annuum, Capsicum lanceolatum, Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, Phaseolus maculatus, Physalis philadelphica, Vanilla planifolia, Vanilla pompona, and Zea mays subsp. mays. Illustrations by Adriana Iwasaki Otake and Héctor Tobón y Hernández, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.].
