Data
Biogeographical regions
GIS data
Spatial Lite format, vector polygon
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Spatial Lite Version 3.
www.sqlite.org - www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins
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Spatial Lite format, vector polygon
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Shapefile format, vector polygon
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Shapefile format, vector polygon
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Coordinate reference system (ESRI friendly)
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Coordinate reference system (ESRI friendly)
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INSPIRE compliant metadata set
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INSPIRE metadata
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Additional information
Codelist for bio-geographical regions
Metadata
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Reporting obligations (ROD)
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- Not applicable
- Relation:
- Derived data set: GIS area of Natura 2000 network
- Derived data set: GIS area of Natura 2000 network
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Scale of the data set:
- 1:10000000
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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).
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Coordinate reference system:
- EPSG:3035
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Data sources
Bundesamt fur Naturschutz (BfN), 2003. Map of natural vegetation of Europe. Web site: http://www.bfn.de/. National data included.
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Owners:
- Council of Europe (CoE)
- Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD)
Additional information
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.
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/biogeographical-regions-europe-3 or scan the QR code.
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