Last of the Wild, v3

In comparison to Last of the Wild, versions 1 and 2, the Human Footprint, 2018 Release (1993) data set utilized an adapted methodology that can be found in the following open access journal article:

Venter, O., E. W. Sanderson, A. Magrach, J. R. Allan, J. Beher, K. R. Jones, H. P. Possingham, W. F. Laurance, P. Wood, B. M. Fekete, M. A. Levy, and J. E. Watson. 2016. Global Terrestrial Human Footprint Maps for 1993 and 2009. Scientific Data 3:160067. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.67.

The implications of the changes in human footprint from 1993 to 2009 are discussed in:

Venter, O., E. W. Sanderson, A. Magrach, J. R. Allan, J. Beher, K. R. Jones, H. P. Possingham, W. F. Laurance, P. Wood, B. M. Fekete, M. A. Levy, and J. E. Watson. 2016. Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation. Nature Communications, 7:12558. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12558