Data

Ecoregions for rivers and lakes

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Prod-ID: DAT-42-en

Created 07 Jan 2004 Published 07 Jan 2004 Last modified 09 Feb 2023

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Topics: Water and marine environment

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Ecoregions are based on fauna living in European inland waters

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Metadata

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Water Framework Directive - Transposition in national legislation

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.