Habitats of Community Interest of Andalusia, publication 2019

Description

REDIAM is carrying out a review of the Habitats of Community Interest (HICs) listed in Annex I to the Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora), in terms of interpretation, location, delimitation and assessment of conservation status. The interpretation of the HICs and their territorial delimitation constitutes a complex task in a wide and biodiverse territory such as Andalusia, where 8 marine habitats and 70 different terrestrial habitats have been detected, some of the terrestrial ones are subdivided for better understanding reaching a total of 105 layers of information. 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. 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. This information was created on a temporary basis and has not been validated by the responsible centres. Fieldwork done by subject matter experts can prevail over these layers. The mapping of HIC is constantly updated, so any user can propose the modification of them using the channels enabled for it (Application of vegetation: http://laboratoriorediam.cica.es/AplicacionVegetacion, and REDIAM Attends), although updates carried out over a year are not published until the first quarter of the following year.

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Tags

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

Topics

  • ENVI

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