Biogeographical regions

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Created 08 Jan 2016 Published 28 Jan 2016 Last modified 19 Jun 2017

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems ,

Europe 2016 - The biogeographical 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). Changes in this version: The Pannonian region of Serbia was missing in previous versions and this has been corrected in the 2016 version. Some Arctic islands which do not belong to the European part of Russia and which were erroneously included in previous versions have been removed.

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Metadata

Relation:: Derived data set: GIS area of Natura 2000 network; Derived data set: GIS area of Natura 2000 network
Temporal coverage:: 2016
Last upload:: 08 Jan 2016
Geographic coverage:: Albania , Alpine , Anatolian , Andorra , Arctic , Armenia , Atlantic , Austria , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Belgium , Black Sea , Boreal , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Continental , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Europe , Finland , France , Georgia , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Kazakhstan , Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99) , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macaronesia , Macedonia (FYR) , Malta , Mediterranean , Moldova , Monaco , Montenegro , Netherlands , Norway , Pan-Europe (Pan-Europe, Cyprus, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Latvia, Malta, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Sweden, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Finland, Romania, United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Monaco, Montenegro, Moldova, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) , Pannonian , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia , San Marino , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Steppic , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , Ukraine , United Kingdom
Tags:: biogeographical regions , geospatial data , pan-europe , vector data , habitats directive
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: 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)

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Biogeographical boundaries were obtained from the EU Member States and from the Emerald Network countries. These were merged together to produce a European wide map of the biogeographical regions independent of political boundaries. A number of the regions were updated during the work under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and in 2010 the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention adopted a number of changes according to progress in the setting-up of the Emerald Network.

Changes in version 2011:
• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden.

Changes in version 2015:
• Update of coast lines (the Caspian and Black Sea)
• Update Ukraine from continental to Pannonian region
• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan

Changes in 2015, version 2:
• Errors in the delineation of the ATL region have been corrected.

The scale varies inside the dataset. Some regions, e.g. in EU countries, are 1:1 000 000 while other regions are 1:1 000 000 or even 1:10 000 000.