EEA geospatial data catalogue
EUNIS forest and other wooded land habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021
This metadata corresponds to the EUNIS forest and other wooded land habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data dataset.
The forest and other wooded land habitat type is the land where the dominant vegetation is, or was until very recently, trees with a canopy cover of at least 10%. It includes temporarily unstocked areas due to clear-cutting as part of a forest management practice or natural disasters which are expected to be regenerated within 5 years but does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use. Trees are defined as woody plants, typically single-stemmed, that can reach a height of at least 5 m at maturity unless stunted by poor climate or soil. Includes Alnus and Populus swamp forest and riverine Salix forest. Excludes Corylus avellana scrub and Salix and Frangula carrs. Excludes lines of trees, coppices, regularly tilled tree nurseries. Excludes stands of climatically-limited dwarf trees (krummholz) < 3m high, such as occur at the arctic or alpine tree limit which are considered scrub (section S) . Excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems, such as fruit tree plantations, olive orchards and agroforestry systems (dehesa and montado) where crops are grown under tree cover - canopy less than 10%, which are listed under sparsely wooded grasslands. Old plantations which have many of the characteristics of natural or semi-natural forests are included, more intensively managed, and less natural, forests are included in vegetated man-made habitats.
The verified forest and other wooded land 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
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_10_mio_eunis-hab-t_p_1940-2017_v01_r00
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
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 10000000
- 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
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and biotopes
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- GEMET
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terrestrial ecosystem
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forest biodiversity
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woodland ecosystem
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habitat
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forest
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natural area
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Russian Federation (European part)
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Belarus
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Moldova
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Ukraine
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Georgia
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San Marino
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Monaco
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United Kingdom
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EEA38 (from 2020)
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Andorra
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- EEA topics
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
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 WEnR 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
- 1b43939a-cb20-4eb8-b6e7-b454971ed933
- 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)
- 2019-04-25T10:33:12Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:38:59.279841Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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