What this plate is
The Harz — one real German landscape, shown as a representative sample .
The index on this page is measured over the whole country and nothing on it was measured here.
What is drawn
What is not drawn
No protected-area boundary. The subject of this index is a national
territory, not a reserve. Germany holds some 58,000 protected areas covering 39.3% of it, so
drawing any one of them would say less than saying this does.
No species markers. All ten species are counted nationally, so a mark
on this plate would claim a location the measurement does not have. They are in the Priority
Species Index chapter, each with its own eleven-year series.
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What this page is · and is not
Germany — the whole country
The Priority Species Index on this page is computed over the German national
territory: 357,596 km², of which roughly 32% (114,190 km²) is natural habitat. That is the unit
of aggregation, and it is why this site behaves differently from every other landscape page in
this fleet. Ten species, eleven consecutive years, 2009 to 2019 — eight of the ten present in
all eleven. On the evidence in the Supplementary Material this is the best-measured landscape
in the study.
Extent 357,596 km² national territory
Natural habitat 114,190 km² about 32%
Protected areas some 58,000 39.3% of the country
Species in the index 10 of 11 evaluated
Years of counts 2009–2019 eleven, consecutive
Index 100.0 → 146.8 geometric mean, 2009 = 100
Three things this page does not do
It draws no protected-area boundary. The subject is a country, not a
reserve and not a reserve network. Germany holds some 58,000 protected areas covering 39.3% of
its territory; an outline of any one of them would assert that the index is about that place,
and an outline of all of them would assert a national inventory this page has not built. So
nothing is drawn, and the map key says so where a reader is looking for a legend.
It does not resolve the wolf. The source table states that wolf numbers
are presented in the table and the graph but not used in calculating the index. This
page's index is computed over all ten species, the wolf among them, and the arithmetic does not
settle the difference: the geometric mean over ten is 153.40 and over nine, with the wolf removed,
119.48, while the source states 146.84 — so dropping the wolf moves further from the published
figure, not closer. The caption and the number disagree with each other. That is a question for the
paper's authors and it has been asked; it is not something to decide quietly here, so the index is
shown as computed and the disagreement is shown with it.
It suppresses the leave-one-out sensitivity analysis. That analysis —
remove one species, see where the index lands — is the strongest argument a PSI page can make,
and it is withheld here. Recomputing a mean over the final survey year gives 153.40 against the
146.84 the source states, because only 9 of the 10 species carry a 2019 value and the tenth
is carried forward: the two numbers
describe different populations. A species absent from the final year would appear as "no effect
on the index" when it was simply not measured. The honest output is to say so, which the index
chapter does, rather than to publish the number that reconciles.
What the plate is
The terrain under these chapters is the Harz , and it is a
representative plate — one real German landscape at a scale this engine has proven.
Nothing measured on this page was measured on that ground. The reason is arithmetic rather than
taste: the largest plate this engine has ever shipped is about 78,050 km², so a country-wide
satellite drape of Germany would be roughly four and a half times an unproven build. The honest
move is a sample that says it is a sample, not a country smeared to 1 km per pixel.
Relief on the plate is vertically exaggerated 3x. The elevation model runs from
76 m to 1,139 m across this frame — that range is the minimum and maximum of the
DEM this page actually renders, measured by us , not a figure quoted from a gazetteer, so
it is a statement about our own data. Elevation is Copernicus GLO-30; imagery is a median
composite of 14 Sentinel-2 L2A scenes from 2026; roads, rivers and still water are
OpenStreetMap. Place labels were read from OpenStreetMap through Nominatim, not typed from
memory.
What this page is not part of
This is an independent visualization of a landscape the study analyses.
It is not part of any published supplementary material, it is not linked from one, and nothing
here should be read as a citation or as an endorsement by the study's authors. Germany was
deliberately excluded from the supplement-linked set, and that decision stands; this page exists
separately and answers for itself.
Every figure on this page is generated
from the transcribed source workbook rather than typed — see the index chapter for the full
series, the per-species years and a download of every number. The transcription has not
yet been checked by a second reader, and the page says so where the figures are. Extent, habitat
share and the protected-area totals are from the source document's own description of the
country. Elevation: Copernicus GLO-30. Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.
Boundaries, water, roads and place names: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data · Elevation: produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved (Copernicus GLO-30). The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-30. · Water, roads & place names: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Priority Species Index, from the paper’s Supplementary Material · An independent visualization by Landseed PBC — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced for any of the bodies named here, and not part of, linked from, or endorsed by any published supplementary material.
