Díaz, Sandra, Settele, Josef, Brondízio, Eduardo, Ngo, Hien T., Guèze, Maximilien, Agard, John, Arneth, Almut, Balvanera, Patricia, Brauman, Kate, Butchart, Stuart, Chan, Kai, Garibaldi, Lucas, Ichii, Kazuhito, Liu, Jianguo, Subramanian, Suneetha Mazhenchery, Midgley, Guy, Miloslavich, Patricia, Molnár, Zsolt, Obura, David, Pfaff, Alexander, Polasky, Stephen, Purvis, Andy, Razzaque, Jona, Reyers, Belinda, Roy, Rinku, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Hamakers, Ingrid Visseren-, Willis, Katherine, Zayas, Cynthia (2019): Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services - unedited advance version. Bonn: IPBES, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2671522, URL: https://www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/summary_for_policymakers_ipbes_global_assessment.pdf The designations employed and the presentation of material on the maps used in the present report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. These maps have been prepared for the sole purpose of facilitating the assessment of the broad biogeographical areas represented therein.