Biogeographical regions

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Created : Nov 13, 2009 Published : Aug 20, 2008 Last modified : Jan 08, 2013 04:27 PM

Topics: Biodiversity ,

Europe 2008 - 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!

GIS data

Zipped geodatabase format, vector polygon

biogeo_geodatabase.zip (ZIP archive)
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Zipped shapefile format, vector polygon

biogeo_shapefile.zip (ZIP archive)
31.15 MB Download file

Methodology

Colour codes for the biogeographical regions

Colour codes for biogeographical regions.xls (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet)
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Metadata

Temporal coverage:: 2008
Last upload:: 20 Aug 2008
Geographical coverage:
Tags:: geospatial data | Biogeographical region | vector data
Scale of the data set:: 1:1000000
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 Environment).
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Data sources: Bundesamt fur Naturschutz (BfN), 2003. Map of natural vegetation of Europe. Web site: http://www.bfn.de/. National data included.
Owners:: Council of Europe (CoE); Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment)
Processors:: European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity (ETC/NPB)

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Additional information

Modifications adopted by the Bern Convention Standing Committee and approved by habitats Committee in 05-04/03. Opposed to former versions this layer has an improved geographical scale of 1:1000000. This means that it can also be used to analysis purposes. Note, however, that this version has a poorer geographical coverage than the former versions.