EEA geospatial data catalogue
EUNIS grassland and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types probability maps - version 1, Nov. 2021
This metadata describes the EUNIS grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types probability maps distribution datasets created from habitat probability mapping. Probability maps are refined versions of habitat suitability maps. Suitability maps model areas where the environment is suitable for a certain habitat type. Probability maps include information on existing land cover and narrow the modelled suitable distribution to areas where the habitat type is probable to occur.
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 probability 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.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-11-15
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-03-01
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_r_3035_100_m_eunis-hab-probability-r_p_1940-2017_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-137-en
Identifier
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 100 m
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1940-01-01 2017-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- EEA topics
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and biotopes
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- GEMET
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natural area
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grassland
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habitat
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lichen
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terrestrial ecosystem
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moss
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Russian Federation (European part)
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Moldova
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Belarus
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EEA38 (from 2020)
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Monaco
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Andorra
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Georgia
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United Kingdom
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San Marino
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Ukraine
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
- Language
- English
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download
- OnLine resource
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https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/EUNIS/MosaicProb_Grassland/ImageServer
- OnLine resource
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EUNIS documentation for habitat classification
- OnLine resource
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Maps 2019 revised EUNIS grassland heath scrub tundra forest probability.pdf
Processing European habitats probability maps for EUNIS Forest (T), Heathland, scrub and tundra (S) and Grassland (R) habitat types based on vegetation relevés, environmental data and Copernicus land cover
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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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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 an ETC/BD Technical report. See all reports in the "EUNIS habitat documentation" compilation.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 0c4270c4-fd7e-4099-ac2f-5af2079ddbd8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-12-05T10:07:11.802Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:36:16.973213Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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