Ecosystem types of Europe 2012 - Terrestrial habitats - version 3 revision 1, Feb. 2019
Description
The data set aims to contribute to a better biological characterization of terrestrial ecosystems across Europe (EEA-39). As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS (EUropean Nature Information System) habitat presence at Level 2 (this corresponds to EUNIS level 3 for marine habitats).
The map combines spatially explicit data on land cover information with non-spatially referenced habitat information of the EUNIS classification. The objective of the data set produced by EEA and its Topic Centre ETC/BD is to improve the biological description of land based ecosystem types and their spatial distribution across Europe.
Since it is partly based on non-spatial explicit mapping the spatial and thematic accuracy is not of same quality as delineated maps. For terrestrial habitats the geometric and thematic accuracy is estimated in the reliability map 2012 v3.1 as secondary product.
The work supports 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). It further ad-dresses the MAES process (Mapping and Assessing of Ecosystems and their Services). The MAES ecosystem typology differentiates three levels and with certain differences follows the EUNIS classification: whereas MAES level 2 the proposal corresponds to EUNIS level 1, MAES level 3 follows closely the EUNIS level 2. A representation of MAES level 2 is contained in the reliability map as secondary product.
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https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Ecosystem/EcosystemTypeMap_v3_1_Terrestrial/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS |
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/7c0cf3f2-ab54-4cd0-a635-b322df7197f6 |
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-terrestrial-c_p_2012_v03_r01/eea_r_3035_100_m_etm-terrestrial-c_2012_v3-1_r00.tif |