Richness of forest-related species and habitats indicator 2012 dataset, Nov. 2018

This dataset refers to the Richness index of Species and Habitats of Conservation Concern indicator. This indicator has been developed to be used as a sub-indicator for contributing to the identification of the High Nature Value (HNV) Forest Areas as it will be integrated with other sub-indicators of horizontal structure, management and naturalness to generate the final composite indicator. It is composed itself of three sub-indicators: “Forest Non-bird species”, “Forest bird species” and “Forest habitats”. All the three sub-indicators build on distribution data from the reporting of habitat and species conservation status under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive and Article 12 of the Birds directive which describe their distribution at 10km grid resolution. The forest species and the forest habitats proposed to be used for the HNV forest area identification were selected based on expert judgement (ETC/BD) and raster files reporting the count of forest species and habitats were created. At this stage, no weight is applied based on Habitat and Species prioritization, conservation status or endemism.

The sub-indicators were then normalized for each European forest type and successively combined not assigning any specific weight to a particular sub-indicator.

The values for this indicator, present in this dataset, ranges between 0 and 1. The values close to 1 mean high presence of habitats and species related to forest, whereas the lower richness are closer to 0. It covers the forested areas of the EU 27 (2007) Member States except for Cyprus (data from Croatia will be reported starting from the next update regarding the period 2013-2018).

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Date (Publication)
2018-11-30
Date (Creation)
2018-11-30
Edition

01.00
Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_1_km_forest-richness-hab-sps_p_2007-2012_v01_r00
Citation identifier
DAT-219-en
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name 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

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Habitats and biotopes

  • Species distribution
Keywords
    Keywords

      GEMET

      • forest policy

      • primary forest

      • environmental indicator

      • conservation

      • forest conservation

      • forest

      • forest ecosystem

      • indigenous forest

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • Poland

      • Malta

      • Bulgaria

      • Slovakia

      • Slovenia

      • Romania

      • Lithuania

      • Czechia

      • Estonia

      • Latvia

      • Hungary

      • EU15
      Spatial scope

      EEA Management Plan

      • 2019 1.7.8

      EEA topics

      • Biodiversity

      • Forests and forestry

      • Nature protection and restoration
      Use limitation

      EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Spatial representation type
      Grid
      Distance
      1  km
      Language of dataset
      English
      Topic category
      • Environment
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      Begin date
      2007-01-01
      End date
      2012-12-31
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • GeoTIFF ( )

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      EEA:FILEPATH

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_km_forest-richness-hab-sps_p_2007-2012_v01_r00/eea_r_3035_1_km_forest-richness-hab-sps_2012.tif

      WWW:URL

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/81754d01-8bc3-49aa-a52c-86b3d212f94e

      Direct download

      ESRI:REST

             		https://forest.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Forest/Richness_forest_habitats_sps/MapServer

      OGC:WMS

             		https://forest.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Forest/Richness_forest_habitats_sps/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

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      Dataset

      Conformance 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
      Statement

      The dataset shows a dimensionless indicator (values between 0 and 1) to assess the biodiversity values of forested areas in Europe. It has been developed starting from 10km resolution data and the final output is at 1km resolution, GeoTIFF format. The values close to 1 mean high presence of habitats and species related to forest, whereas the lower richness are closer to 0.

      The input data derives from the information about habitat and species conservation status that Member States report under the Art.17 and Art.12 reporting obligations.

      The information about presence-absence of each species has been used to count the total number of forest bird species, forest non-bird species and forest habitats per 10km pixel and produce three related sub-indicators. A mask Forest-NonForest at 1km resolution has been applied to the input sub-indicators to consider only forested area.

      Each sub-indicator has then been normalized per forest type: Boreal, Hemiboreal, Alpine Coniferous, Acidophylous oakwood, Mesophytic deciduous, Beech, Mountainous beech, Thermophilous beech, Broadleaved evergreen and Coniferous Mediterranean. The composite indicator of forest biodiversity was then derived summing per each pixel the values of the single input sub-indicators. The final Forest Biodiversity indicator was then rescaled to values between 0 and 1.

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      Metadata

      File identifier
      81754d01-8bc3-49aa-a52c-86b3d212f94e XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2024-01-15T16:10:15.176Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139
      Metadata standard version

      1.0
      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

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      Spatial extent

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      Keywords

      EEA Management Plan

      2019 1.7.8
      EEA topics

      Biodiversity Forests and forestry Nature protection and restoration
      GEMET

      conservation environmental indicator forest forest conservation forest ecosystem forest policy indigenous forest primary forest
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Habitats and biotopes Species distribution
      Spatial scope

      European


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