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Vegetation sensitivity

Vegetation sensitivity

Map (static)Published 12 Nov 2009Modified 20 Sept 2024

This index is one of the components of the sensitivity to desertification index

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Temporal coverageOther organisations involvedEuropean Environment Agency (EEA), The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

It is based four aspects of the vegetation: the fire risk, the protection provided against different types of erosion, the resistance to water shortages and the amount of land surface coverage. The dataset was created by assigning values for each parameter to Corine Land Cover third level classes.

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