Date (Creation)

2016-01-26

Date (Publication)

2016-01-26

Edition

01.00

Citation identifier

eea_v_3035_1_mio_biogeo-regions_p_2016_v01_r00

Citation identifier

DAT-85-en

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

EEA topics

• Biodiversity

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Bio-geographical regions

Keywords

Keywords

Spatial scope

• European

GEMET

• biodiversity
• biogeographical region
• biogeography

INSPIRE priority data set

• Pan-European biogeographical regions (Habitats Directive)

• Directive 92/43/EEC

EEA Management Plan

• 2015 1.7.2

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

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

Inherited license conditions from parent dataset Administrative units 2010 at country level (1:1M) including Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99), Oct. 2012:

The source and intellectual property have always to be acknowledged. To this end, an acknowledgement as specified below must be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data. Acknowledgement notice, depending on the language used in the publication: English: Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

10000000

Language of dataset

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Biota
• Environment

Begin date

2011-01-01

Coordinate reference system identifier

EPSG:3035

Distribution format

• SHP ( )

• Spatialite ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FILEPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_1_mio_biogeo-regions_p_2016_v01_r00/
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/c6d27566-e699-4d58-a132-bbe3fe01491b	Direct download
ESRI:REST	https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/BioRegions/BiogeographicalRegions_WM/MapServer
OGC:WMS	https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/BioRegions/BiogeographicalRegions_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS	0
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/report_2002_0524_154909	Europe's biodiversity - biogeographical regions and seas

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

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.

Changes in version 2011:

• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden.

Changes in version 2015:

• Update of coast lines (the Caspian and Black Sea)

• Update Ukraine from continental to Pannonian region

• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan

Changes in 2015, version 2:

• Errors in the delineation of the ATL region have been corrected.

Changes in 2016, version 1:

• Correction of the lack of Pannonian region in Serbia

• Removal of some Arctic islands which do not belong to the European part of Russia

The scale varies inside the dataset. Some regions, e.g. in EU countries, are 1:1 000 000 while other regions are 1:1 000 000 or even 1:10 000 000.

Source

• Administrative units 2010 at country level (1:1M) including Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99), Oct. 2012
• EEA coastline for analysis (line) - version 1.0, Jun. 2013

Metadata

File identifier

c6d27566-e699-4d58-a132-bbe3fe01491b XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-03-03T11:51:56.399079Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu		Point of contact