Assessing the representation of species included within the Canadian Living Planet Index

To effectively combat the biodiversity crisis, we need ambitious targets and reliable indicators to accurately track trends measure conservation impact. In Canada, Living Planet Index (LPI) has been adapted produce a national indicator by both World Wildlife Fund-Canada (Canadian Index; C-LPI) Environment Climate Change Canada Species Index) provide insight into status of Canadian wildlife, evaluating temporal in vertebrate population abundance. The includes data for just over 50% species. assess whether current dataset is representative distribution life history characteristics analyzed representation species-specific biotic variables (i.e., body size, trophic level, lifespan) vertebrates within C-LPI compared native lacking LPI data. Generally, there was considerable overlap species Nevertheless, some differences among distributions were found, driven large part discrepancy fishes—where included larger-bodied longer-lived We recommendations targeted collection additional analyses further strengthen applicability, accuracy, representativity indicators.