Table 2 Impacts of agriculture per taxon. Impacts of agriculture on the terrestrial vertebrate species of the Cerrado ecoregion by 2021 measured by the countryside Species-Area Relationship (cSAR) model, the Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric and the Species Habitat Index (SHI)
Unit | Amphibians | Reptiles | Birds | Mammals | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
cSAR | Regional potential loss | Number of species | 37 | 55 | 147 | 48 | 287 |
Global-weighted potential loss | Number of species | 1.7 | 3.8 | 5.9 | 2.3 | 14 | |
STAR | START score for agricultural threats | - | 2758 | 4619 | 5390 | 2630 | 15,397 |
Agriculture’s share in total START score | % | 58 | 72 | 58 | 51 | 60 | |
SHI | Regional habitat loss | % | 25 | 35 | 37 | 38 | 35 |
Global-weighted habitat loss | % | 28 | 32 | 39 | 35 | 35 |
