Data for Leveraging Citizen Science for Shieldtail Conservation

Data and code (R programming language) for Leveraging Citizen Science for Shieldtail Conservation

This repository contains all data files and code used to carry out the analyses mentioned in Shinde et al. The code can be used to recalculate metrics and reproduce figures from the article. Please refer to the main text while using the repository and the code.

Data sources:

GARD 1.7 Shieldtail range maps [9 species] are a subset from Roll, U., & Meiri, S. (2022). GARD 1.7-Updated Global Distributions for all Terrestrial Reptiles [Dataset]. Dryad. published in Caetano, G. H. D. O., Chapple, D. G., Grenyer, R., Raz, T., Rosenblatt, J., Tingley, R., ... & Roll, U. (2022). Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny. PLoS Biology, 20(5), e3001544.

IUCN Shieldtail range maps [9 species] were downloaded from the IUCN website. IUCN (2025). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [22 March 2025].