Biogeographical regions, Europe 2005

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The bio-geographic regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention)

Note: new version is available!

Aug 20, 2008 - Biogeographical regions, Europe 2008

European data set

Biogeographical regions colour codes

[+] Show table definition (records: 12)

Bio_code	Bio-geographic Region code	nvarchar (32)
Biogeo	Bio-geographic Region name	nvarchar(50)
Colour name	Colour name	nvarchar(510)
Htmlcolor	HTML color code	nvarchar(510)
Rgbcolor	RGB color code	nvarchar(510)

biogeo_color_code.csv (text/comma-separated-values)
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biogeo_color_code.dbf (dBASE document)
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biogeo_color_code.mdb (application/msaccess)
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biogeo_color_code.xls (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet)
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GIS data

Zipped shapefile, vector data, polygon

biogeo_region2005.zip (ZIP archive)
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Zipped tiff files, 100m and 250m rasters

bg100m_250m_2005.zip (ZIP archive)
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Methodology

Methodology description (pdf format)

map_biogeo_regions_2006.pdf (PDF document)
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Additional information

Modifications adopted by the Bern Convention Standing Committee and approved by habitats Committee in 05-04/03. Version 3 incorporates digital data send by countries, therefore the polygons and lines in the map have different generalization levels. The changes in this version are: Lithuania: the whole country is in the Boreal region. Czech Republic: change in border between Continental and Pannonian regions. Slovak Republic: change in border between Alpine and Pannonian regions.
Geographical coverage note: Russian Federation covered to Ural. Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan partly covered.

Produced maps and graphs

Key past and projected impacts and effects of climate change for the main biogeographical regions of Europe -

Biogeographical regions, Europe 2005, with national boundaries Biogeographical regions with country borders in white

Key past and projected impacts and effects on sectors for the main biogeographic regions of Europe

The EU Natura2000 network of designated areas (both SPAs and SCIs) across biogeographic regions SPA = Special Protected Areas

Publish date:: 16 Feb 2006
Last upload:: 16 Feb 2006
Geographical coverage:: EU25, EU27, EU12, EU15, EFTA4, EEA32, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia the former Yugoslavian Republic of, Moldova Republic of, Monaco, Montenegro, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Ukraine, yu
Scale of the data set:: 1:10000000
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: Directorate-General for Environment, Council of Europe (CoE).
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Source:: Bundesamt fur Naturschutz (BfN), 2003. Map of natural vegetation of Europe. Web site: http://www.bfn.de/. National data included.
Owners:: Directorate-General for Environment; Council of Europe (CoE)
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity