EEA geospatial data catalogue
Biogeographical regions
The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention).
Biogeographical boundaries were obtained from the EU Member States and from the Emerald Network countries. These were merged together to produce a European wide map of the biogeographical regions independent of political boundaries. A number of the regions were updated during the work under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and in 2010 the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention adopted a number of changes according to progress in the setting-up of the Emerald Network.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-01-26
- Citation identifier
- eea_biogeo-regions_s
- Citation identifier
- DAT-85-en
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 10000000
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2008-01-01 2011-12-31
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-01-01
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-01-01 2015-12-31
- EEA Management Plan
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2015 1.7.2
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- EEA topics
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- Biodiversity
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Biodiversity
- GEMET
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- biogeography
- biogeographical region
- biodiversity
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biodiversity
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Bio-geographical regions
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Bio-geographical regions
- INSPIRE priority data set
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Pan-European biogeographical regions (Habitats Directive)
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Directive 92/43/EEC
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Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 11db8d14-f167-4cd5-9205-95638dfd9618
- 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
- Series
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/11db8d14-f167-4cd5-9205-95638dfd9618
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-09-29T14:15:27.673Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-11-05T15:44:59.326397Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3:2018
- Edition
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1.0
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