EUNIS grassland and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021

This metadata corresponds to the EUNIS grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data dataset.



These habitat types correspond to non-coastal land which is dry or only seasonally wet (with the water table at or above ground level for less than half of the year) with greater than 30% vegetation cover. The vegetation is dominated by grasses and other non-woody plants, including mosses, macrolichens, ferns, sedges and herbs. Includes semiarid steppes with scattered Artemisia scrub. Includes successional weedy vegetation. Excludes regularly tilled habitats (V1) dominated by cultivated herbaceous vegetation such as arable fields and managed grasslands such as recreation fields and lawns.



The verified grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat samples used are derived from the Braun-Blanquet database ( http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/vegsci/braun_blanquet.php?lang=en) which is a centralised database of vegetation plots and comprises copies of national and regional databases using a unified taxonomic reference database. The geographic extent of the distribution data are all European countries except Armenia and Azerbaijan. The dataset is provided both in Geodatabase and Geopackage formats.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2021-11-15
Date (Creation)
2019-03-01
Edition

01.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_10_mio_eunis-hab-r_p_1940-2017_v01_r00

Citation identifier
DAT-137-en

Identifier

Code
10.2909/2aee4bd1-c509-4b0c-94a1-f0ed57763ccb
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000000
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
1940-01-01 2017-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Habitats and biotopes

GEMET

  • natural area

  • grassland

  • habitat

  • lichen

  • terrestrial ecosystem

  • moss

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Ukraine

  • Russian Federation (European part)

  • Moldova

  • Belarus

  • EEA38 (from 2020)

  • Monaco

  • Andorra

  • Georgia

  • United Kingdom

  • San Marino

Spatial scope
EEA Management Plan

  • 2021 1.1.4

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_10_mio_eunis-hab-r_p_1940-2017_v01_r00/

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

Vegetation Plot Layer

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/EUNIS/Grassland_Distribution_point/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OnLine resource

EUNIS documentation for habitat classification

OnLine resource

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

The database compiled for the Braun-Blanquet project comprises various national and regional vegetation databases. The maintenance of these databases is in principle in the hands of the custodians. However, before uploading datasets into the Braun-Blanquet database a quality check is performed by Alterra and Masaryk University. If possible, detected errors are corrected and reported back to the data provider. Attributes added to the distribution data are: YEAR (year of recording) and PRECISION (precision in meters, indicating how precise the location is indicated).

More information can be found in the Braun-Blanquet project website: http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/vegsci/braun_blanquet.php?lang=en.



Supporting information on the creation of this dataset is available in the ETC/BD Technical paper 9/2018: Distribution and habitat suitability maps of revised EUNIS grassland, heathland, scrub, tundra and forest types at: https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-bd/products/etc-bd-reports/maps_revised_eunis_grassland_heath_scrub_tundra_forest.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
2aee4bd1-c509-4b0c-94a1-f0ed57763ccb

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/2aee4bd1-c509-4b0c-94a1-f0ed57763ccb

Date info (Creation)
2019-04-25T12:43:48Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:42:43.469042Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2021 1.1.4
EEA topics

Biodiversity
GEMET

grassland habitat lichen moss natural area terrestrial ecosystem
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes
Spatial scope

European


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