EEA geospatial data catalogue
EUNIS heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021
This metadata corresponds to the EUNIS heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data dataset.
These habitat types correspond to non-coastal land which is dry or only seasonally inundated (with the water table at or above ground level for less than half of the year) with greater than 30% vegetation cover. Tundra is characterised by the presence of permafrost. Heathland and scrub are defined as vegetation dominated by shrubs or dwarf shrubs of species that typically do not exceed 5 m maximum height. Includes shrub orchards, vineyards, hedges (which may have occasional tall trees). Also includes stands of climatically-limited dwarf trees (krummholz) < 3 m high, such as occur in extreme alpine conditions. Includes Salix and Frangula carrs. Excludes coppice (T47) and Alnus and Populus swamp forest (T15).
The verified heathland, scrub and tundra 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-s_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
- 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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habitat
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tundra
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natural area
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heathland
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Andorra
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EEA38 (from 2020)
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Georgia
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United Kingdom
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Ukraine
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Belarus
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Monaco
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Moldova
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San Marino
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Russian Federation (European part)
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- EEA topics
- EEA Management Plan
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2021 1.1.4
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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
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 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
- 1f8814c7-eb8b-4674-9955-1ebf485cfc57
- 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)
- 2019-04-25T12:26:49Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:39:47.742702Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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