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Ecoregions for rivers and lakes

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Ecoregions are based on fauna living in European inland waters

Themes
Water Water

GIS data

ZIP compressed shape file, vector data, polygon

Additional information

The data was published as a map in Annex XI, Water Framework Directive, in Official Journal of the European Communities.
Geographical coverage note: data set covers Pan-Europe excluding Turkey.

Produced maps and graphs

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Publish date:
07 Jan 2004
Last upload:
07 Jan 2004
Geographic information quality label:
Completeness:
        
Excellent
Logical consistency:
        
Excellent
Position accuracy:
        
Undefined
Temporal accuracy:
        
Excellent
Thematic accuracy:
        
Excellent
Tags:
ecology | EEA owned data sets | freshwater | geospatial data | lake | river | vector data | water
Rights:
Agreement was given by Chris Steenmans to distribute the GIS data on WFD Ecoregions (e-mail dated 5/01/04 to Mette Palitzsch Lund with cc J Bliki and C De Roose/paper filed CDR data policy).
Source:

The outline made by J. Illies (1978) in Limnofauna Europaea (G. Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart) has been used as a basis for the Ecoregions.

Owners:
European Environment Agency
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