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Biogeographical regions

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Created 16 Feb 2006 Published 16 Feb 2006 Last modified 28 Jun 2016

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems

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Europe 2005 - 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)

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Biogeographical regions colour codes

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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)

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Metadata

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 (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Council of Europe (CoE), Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV).
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 ENV)
Processors:: European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD)

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.

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Geographic coverage

Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom

For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/biogeographical-regions-europe-2005 or scan the QR code.

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