Ecosystem types of Europe
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GIS data
Based on EUNIS habitat classification level 1
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100m
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Based on EUNIS habitat classification level 2
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100m
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INSPIRE compliant metadata set
Metadata
- Relation:
- Parent data set: Conservation status of habitat types and species (Article 17, Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC)
- Parent data set: Corine Land Cover 2000 raster data
- Parent data set: EUNIS habitat classification
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Temporal coverage:
- 2006 2013
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Geographic coverage:
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Tags:
- eu 2020 biodiversity strategy target 2 , land cover , ecosystem , eunis habitat classification , eunis , maes , habitats , bise
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Scale of the data set:
- 1:100000
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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: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Disclaimer:
- The objective of the ecosystem map produced by EEA and its Topic Centre ETC/SIA was to improve the biological description of land cover based ecosystem types. It represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence in ecosystem types at European level. Since it is not based on spatial explicit mapping the spatial and thematic accuracy is not of same quality as delineated maps.
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Coordinate reference system:
- EPSG:3035
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Data sources
Corine Land Cover 2006 raster data V.16
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD)
Additional information
The data set aims to combine spatially explicit land cover information with non-spatially referenced habitat information to improve our knowledge about ecosystems and their distribution across Europe. The work supports the MAES process, Target 2 Action 5 of the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, established to achieve the Aichi targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD).
The objective of the ecosystem data set produced by EEA and its Topic Centre ETC/SIA was to improve the biological description of land cover based ecosystem types. It represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence in ecosystem types at European level. Since it is not based on spatial explicit mapping the spatial and thematic accuracy is not of same quality as delineated maps.
The MAES ecosystem typology differentiates three levels: whereas the level 2 of the MAES proposal follows closely the EUNIS level 1, the third level of the MAES typology corresponds to the EUNIS level 2. This level will be the base for the mapping approach.
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