Figure 1.

Number of species occurrence records and socio-political variables between 1960 and 2020 in Central America (by Bio-Dem). The three socio-political variables that were considered are (1) Freedom of expression (green), (2) Political corruption (blue), and (3) Polyarchy (red). Polyarchy refers to what degree a government selects its executive and legislative through popular elections (electoral democracy). Bar colors indicate political regime type, also showing minor and major conflict periods and key historical events for each country. In the case of Guatemala, Bio-Dem did not recognize the genocide as a major conflict, therefore we added the red background in the beginning of the 1980s when the genocide was executed. Note the logarithmic scale for the left y-axis corresponding to the species record number. The right y-axis corresponds to the chosen socio-political variables index.