Habitats of Community Interest of Andalusia, publication 2020

Description

This content includes the updated information available on the Habitats of Community Interest in Andalusia for the year 2020, which may vary from that of the last year published according to the updates that have been made. It focuses on terrestrial habitats, as information from marine HICs is not yet fully integrated. REDIAM is carrying out a review of Habitats of Community Interest (HIC), from the point of view of interpretation, location, delimitation and assessment of conservation status. The interpretation of HICs and their territorial delimitation is a complex task in a wide and biodiverse territory such as Andalusia, where up to 79 different habitats (marine and terrestrial) have been detected. Each of them encompasses a peculiar casuistry, where it is not always easy to transfer the definition of the HIC to the territory, configure its relationship with phytosociology or detect them based on photointerpretation, the main tool available. It is the reference information for 2020 on the distribution of Habitats of Community Interest in Andalusia. In the publication, a total of 71 terrestrial habitats of interest are referenced, although subclasses have been defined (for the sake of better understanding and management) in 24 of the previous ones, which means that currently there are 110 layers of spatial information that compose it. In addition, a raster with the total area covered by HIC is published indicating whether the habitat is a priority (P), non-priority (NP), is proposed as a priority for Andalusia (PP) or is proposed as a non-priority for Andalusia (PNP). Among the documents of the content, the one that details the relationship between the habitats present in Andalusia of the standard list of terrestrial habitats of Spain (LPHET), the plant communities and the Habitats of Community Interest is attached. To facilitate the identification of habitats in a specific place, a single layer has been generated that summarizes all the available layers. The information generated constitutes an exploitation of SIPNA (Information System of the Natural Heritage of Andalusia), where the habitats converge with SIOSEA (System of Soil Occupation of Spain in Andalusia) and the Cartography of the Vegetation of Andalusia. The generated cartography is an approximation to the location of the HICs, representing the maximum probability that they appear in the territory with the available knowledge, although this probability is not absolute or exclusive. Fieldwork done by subject matter experts can prevail over these layers.

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  • ideandalucia
  • vegetación
  • opendata
  • nicho-ecológico
  • ecosistemas
  • hábitat

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  • ENVI

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