Ecosystem types of Europe based on EUNIS level 2 (raster 100m) - version 2.1, Dec. 2015

The data set combines the Corine based MAES (Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services) ecosystem classes with the non-spatial EUNIS habitat classification (LEVEL 2) for a better biological characterization of ecosystems across Europe (EEA-39). As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence for each MAES ecosystem type.

The data set aims to combine spatially explicit land cover information with non-spatially referenced habitat information to improve our knowledge about ecosystems and their distribution across Europe. The work supports the MAES process, Target 2 Action 5 of the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, established to achieve the Aichi targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD).

The objective of the ecosystem data set produced by EEA and its Topic Centre ETC/SIA was to improve the biological description of land cover based ecosystem types. It represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence in ecosystem types at European level. Since it is not based on spatial explicit mapping the spatial and thematic accuracy is not of same quality as delineated maps.

The MAES ecosystem typology differentiates three levels: whereas the level 2 of the MAES proposal follows closely the EUNIS level 1, the third level of the MAES typology corresponds to the EUNIS level 2. This level will be the base for the mapping approach.

Date (Publication): 2015-12-08

Date (Creation): 2015-12-08

Edition: 02.01

Citation identifier: eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-l2_p_2006_v02_r01

Status: Superseded

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

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

EEA topics

Biodiversity

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land cover
Habitats and biotopes

Keywords

GEMET

ecosystem
habitat
land cover
environmental assessment
ecosystem type
ecosystem services

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: 100 m

Language of dataset: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota
Environment

Begin date: 2006-01-01

End date: 2006-12-31

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types_p_2006_v02_r01/eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-l2_p_2006_v02_r01/
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/bacb0dcd-dcb2-44a5-8b2c-4a569c5deafa	Direct download
ESRI:REST	https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/MAES/MAES_ecosystem_type_maps_WM/MapServer
OGC:WMS	https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/MAES/MAES_ecosystem_type_maps_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

Hierarchy level: 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 data set production implied 2 steps. First re-classification of CORINE Land Cover 2006 and bathymetry data using the 7 terrestrial (urban, cropland, grassland, woodland and forest, heathland and shrub, sparsely vegetated land, wetland), 1 freshwater (river and lakes), and 4 marine (marine inlets and transitional waters, coastal, shelf, open ocean) classes of the MAES ecosystem typology (Maes et al., 2013). The classes also provide links to major policy lines such as agriculture, forestry, territorial cohesion, water and marine related policies. The second step comprised refinement of the ecosystem types by attributing EUNIS habitat information to each ecosystem type (see http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats.jsp). The refinement process used reference data such as potential natural vegetation, elevation, slope, aspect, soil, geology, environmental regions and other spatial referenced information which allowed attribution of the EUNIS habitat characteristics to the spatial mapping units of the MAES ecosystem types. The geometric and thematic accuracy of EUNIS class presence was also estimated and mapped. The method is described in the EEA Technical Report 06/2015: European Ecosystem Assessment – Concept, Data, and Implementation.

The basis for the update was CORINE land cover 2006 (CLC 2006). It includes Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/99), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom. For Greece that has not participated in the CLC 2006 activity the CLC 2000 data was used instead.

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