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Biogeographical regions
GIS data
Shapefile format, vector polygon
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BiogeoRegions2011_shapefile.zip
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Spatial Lite format, vector polygon
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Spatial Lite Version 3.
www.sqlite.org - www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins
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BiogeoRegions2011_spatialite.zip
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Additional information
Codelist for bio-geographical regions
Coordinate reference system (ESRI friendly)
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etrs_1989_laea_l52_m10.prj
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INSPIRE compliant metadata set
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61e01978-57d2-41fe-907f-503b5567f979
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Metadata
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Dynamic
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Temporal coverage:
- 2008-2011
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Last upload:
- 25 Apr 2011
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Geographical coverage:
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Tags:
- EU-27 | Habitats Directive | Bern Convention | pan-Europe | geospatial data | vector data | Biogeographical region | Emerald Network
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Scale of the data set:
- 1:10000000
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Rights:
- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Council of Europe (CoE), Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV).
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Coordinate reference system:
- EPSG:3035
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Data sources
Bundesamt fur Naturschutz (BfN), 2003. Map of natural vegetation of Europe. Web site: http://www.bfn.de/. National data included.
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Owners:
- Council of Europe (CoE)
- Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity (ETC/NPB)
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Additional information
Biogeographical boundaries were obtained from the EU Member States and from the Emerald Network countries. These were merged together to produce a European wide map of the biogeographical regions independent of political boundaries. A number of the regions were updated during the work under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and in 2010 the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention adopted a number of changes according to progress in the setting-up of the Emerald Network.
Improved boundaries for the following countries: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden.
The scale varies inside the dataset. Some regions, e.g. in EU countries, are 1:1 000 000 while other regions are poorer, i.e. 1:10 000 000.
The structure of the attribute table has been changed in this revised version in order to comply with INSPIRE specifications.
The mapping from old field names to new ones is as follows:
NAME -> short_name
ABBRE -> pre_2012
code -> code
label -> name
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