Species Exposure Dashboard

This dashboard tracks how much of each species' geographic range has been exposed to extreme climate events — temperatures and precipitation outside the historical baseline — using ERA5 reanalysis data from 1940 to the present.


What you can explore

  • Species Explorer — select any species to view its historical exposure time series, a polar summary of which climate variables have affected it most, and a map of its geographic range.
  • Hotspot Explorer — click any grid cell on the global map to see all species present there and how many are currently exposed to extreme conditions.

Climate variables tracked

Eight ERA5-derived extremes, covering both tails of temperature and precipitation at annual and seasonal timescales:

  • High temperature (annual)
  • Low temperature (annual)
  • High temperature (warmest 3 months)
  • Low temperature (coldest 3 months)
  • High precipitation (annual)
  • Low precipitation (annual)
  • High precipitation (wettest 3 months)
  • Low precipitation (driest 3 months)

Data sources


Run locally with custom filtering

For more flexible filtering and custom data exploration, you can download and run the full interactive Shiny app from github.com/SpeciesExposure/exposureApp. Install directly from the repository in R:

Screenshot of the Shiny app showing a species timeseries and map
install.packages(
  "https://github.com/SpeciesExposure/exposureApp/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz",
  repos = NULL,
  type = "source"
)

exposureApp::exposureApp()

Source code: github.com/cmerow/2025_Exposure

25,316
species with range maps
85
years of ERA5 data (1941–2025)
8
climate extreme variables
0.25°
spatial resolution (~28 km)