Habitats of Community Interest of Andalusia, publication 2021

Description

This content includes the updated information available on the Habitats of Community Interest in Andalusia for the year 2021, which may vary from that of the last year published according to the updates that have been made. 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 76 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 2021 on the distribution of Habitats of Community Interest in Andalusia. The publication refers to a total of 68 terrestrial and 8 marine habitats of interest, although subclasses have been defined (for the sake of better understanding and management) in 28 of the previous ones, which currently makes 155 layers of spatial information that compose it. 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. 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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Tags

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

Topics

  • ENVI

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