Predicted distribution of habitat suitability for EUNIS habitat types

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Prod-ID: DAT-140-en
Created 27 Jan 2015 Published 27 Nov 2015 Last modified 22 May 2017
The modelled suitability for the EUNIS habitat types is an indication of where conditions are favourable for each habitat type based on verified sample plot data (Braun-Blanquet database) and the Maxent software package. The modelled suitability maps may be used as a proxy for the potential geographical distribution of the habitat types in given environmental and climatic envelopes. Note however that it is not representing the actual distribution of the habitat types. A first set of habitat suitability maps for forest types is available. Over the next years more suitability maps of habitat types will be provided from this page.

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Predicted habitat suitability model

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Relation:
Parent data set:  EUNIS habitat classification
Temporal coverage:
Last upload:
23 Nov 2015
Geographic accuracy:
1000m resolution
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: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Methodology:

The methodology is described in the report: EEA technical report no 18/2015 ‘Linking in situ vegetation data to the EUNIS habitat classification: results for forest habitats’

Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:3035
Data sources

Vegetation plot data from Braun-Blanquet database, see Braun-Blanquet project: parameterization of European vegetation types (http://euroveg.org/projects).

 

Environmental layers

Source

Potential evapotranspiration (PET)

http://www.cgiar-csi.org/data/global-aridity-and-pet-database

Topsoil pH (Soil_pH)

www.isric.org

Solar radiation (Solar)

http://www.worldgrids.org/doku.php?id=wiki:inmsre3

Temperature seasonality (BioClim 4)

http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim

Mean temperature of wettest quarter (BioClim 8)

http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim

Annual precipitation (BioClim 12)

http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim

Precipitation seasonality (BioClim 15)

http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim

Precipitation of warmest quarter (BioClim 18)

http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim

The maximum NDVI (NDVI peak)

Alterra, HANTS, 2012 (Roerink et al., 2000, 2003; Clereci et al., 2012)

Distance to water (i.e rivers, lakes or sea)

Rivers from Bartholomew topographic maps; lakes and sea from Corine Land Cover database, 2006
Owners:
European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:
ALTERRA
 

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