During the formative years of science-based biodiversity conservation and planning, Mozambique was undergoing a prolonged post-colonial liberation struggle (1964–1974) and subsequent civil war (1976–1992), resulting in a profound gap in biodiversity knowledge and conservation planning relative to other countries in the region. This study represents Mozambique's first post-war (1992 to the present) zoogeographic regionalisation at a fine scale, using 20 years of terrestrial vertebrate data comprising 54 species and 27,199 records that cover 53% of the 0.5° grid cells of the country, with 35% of cells having sufficient data for subsequent quantitative analysis. Cluster and Indicator species (IndVal) analysis were used to delimit zooregions and to identify their characteristic species, respectively, while Redundancy analysis was used to relate environmental variables to vertebrate groups. These analyses divided Mozambique into six zooregions (Niassa, Tete, Gilé, Marromeu-Gorongosa, Limpopo-Zinave-Banhine and Maputo). Our study reveals that the zooregions identified are not adequately protected by the current network of protected areas. An expanded network of protected areas is needed to ensure biodiversity conservation in Mozambique.

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莫桑比克陆生脊椎动物的动物地理区划

在以科学为基础的生物多样性保护和规划的形成时期，莫桑比克经历了长期的后殖民解放斗争（1964-1974）和随后的内战（1976-1992），导致生物多样性知识和保护规划相对到该地区的其他国家。这项研究代表了莫桑比克战后（1992 年至今）首次精细尺度的动物地理分区，使用了 20 年的陆生脊椎动物数据，包括 54 个物种和 27,199 条记录，覆盖了该国 0.5° 网格单元的 53%，其中 35具有足够数据进行后续定量分析的细胞百分比。聚类和指示物种（IndVal）分析分别用于界定动物园区域并识别其特征物种，而冗余分析则用于将环境变量与脊椎动物群相关联。这些分析将莫桑比克分为六个动物园区（尼亚萨、太特、吉莱、马罗梅乌-戈龙戈萨、林波波-齐纳夫-巴尼和马普托）。我们的研究表明，所确定的动物园区域并未受到当前保护区网络的充分保护。需要扩大保护区网络以确保莫桑比克的生物多样性保护。