Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Biodiversity

Description

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Biodiversity provides data and information on amphibians, disease agents (extent and distribution of infectious and parasitic diseases), drylands (cattle, sheep and goats, and pasture), islands (fishing pressure, sewage pollution index and tourism), loss of natural land cover (biomes and realms), polar population, species distribution models, and terrestrial ecoregions and realms. Biodiversity is defined as the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part. The original information was received from multiple sources that include the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN, formerly the World Conservation Union), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) of Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on-board NASA satellites Terra and Aqua. Through the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and the Convention on Migratory Species, the data were also designed to meet the needs of stakeholders in the business, civil and native commUnities.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.7927%2FH4V9860B
21 Data Download Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ma-biodiversity/data-download
21 Documentation Page http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ma-biodiversity/docs
21 Data Set Overview Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ma-biodiversity
22 Sample browse graphic of the data set. https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/maps/ma/ma-biodiversity/sedac-logo.jpg

Tags

  • biosphere
  • ecological-dynamics
  • earth-science

Topics

Categories