Ecoregions for rivers and lakes

Data

Prod-ID: DAT-42-en

Created 07 Jan 2004 Published 07 Jan 2004 Last modified 28 Jun 2016

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Topics: Water and marine environment ,

Ecoregions are based on fauna living in European inland waters

GIS data

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Metadata

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Water Framework Directive - Transposition in national legislation

Temporal coverage:

1978

Last upload:

07 Jan 2004

Geographic coverage:

Austria , Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , Netherlands , Portugal , Spain , Sweden , United Kingdom

Tags:

ecology , lakes , rivers , water , vector data , eea owned data sets , geospatial data , freshwater

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).

Data sources

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 (EEA)

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.