Areas of high ecological value

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Prod-ID: DAT-52-en
Created 24 Mar 2003 Published 24 Mar 2003 Last modified 28 Jun 2016
NOTE: In 2010, the Natura 2000 database was published and is available for download from this site. The Areas of high ecological value is outdated and should not be used.

GIS data

Areas of high ecological value, zipped, vector (polygon) and point data

Methodology

Coastal Erosion Indicators Study

Metadata

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Relation:
Parent data set:  Corine biotopes
Temporal coverage:
Last upload:
17 Feb 2005
Geographic accuracy:
Quality of CORINE Biotopes is considered as sufficient to carry out the coastal erosion assessment. However, the database itself suffers from various semantical and structural inconsistencies, which should be partly fixed by the ongoing Natura 2000 enhancement project.
Scale of the data set:
1:100000
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 (DG ENV).
Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:4258
Data sources
EUROSION was a project commissioned by the General Directorate Environment of the European Commission 2002-2004.

CORINE Biotopes is a relational database made of different tables including: (i) species tables (mammals, birds, reptiles, etc.), (ii) habitats tables, (iii) natural sites tables, and (iv) look up files. Since CORINE Biotopes data are not referenced in a GIS format, geocoding operations of the whole database are being carried by EUROSION.

Only the Natura 2000 proposed Sites of Community Interest for the Macaronesian ecoregion (of which Canary is part) have been validated and therefore made accessible to EUROSION.

Owners:
Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)

Additional information

This layer contains information on the location and characteristics of areas with a high ecological value in coastal regions as defined by the Eurosion project.

Because of restrictions in accessing the most updated and accurate information on areas of high ecological areas (provided by Member States in the framework of the Habitats Directive), the following approach has been adopted by Eurosion: - in a first stage, data on areas of high ecological value will be derived from CORINE Biotopes. The data depict the location of major nature sites in Europe (NB: only coordinates of centroids are provided, not the geographical boundaries of the sites). The characteristics of these sites in terms of size, number of species hosted by the sites, or legal status are provided as attributes of the centroids. This makes it possible cartographic representation in the forms of bubbles (see screenshots). - in a second stage, the above mentioned Biotopes database will be progressively replaced by the database of proposed Sites of Community Interest (pSCI) - which is being established in the framework of the Habitats Directive and Natura 2000 network (as data become public). For the time being, only pSCIs for the Macaronesian ecoregion (Canary, Azores, Madeira) are publicly available, which makes impossible any exploitation of these data for European-wide applications.

 

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