Reference data for ecosystem mapping

Terrestrial

Land cover

100x100m

Corine Land Cover

http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover

Soil sealing

100x100m

HRL

imperviousness 2006

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-fast-track-service-precursor-on-land-monitoring-degree-of-soil-sealing#tab-european-data

Forest 25x25m

JRC

Forests

2006

http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download/data/

Roads and land

use

Open Street Map

OSM 2013

Europe (except Germany, France):

http://download.geofabrik.de/europe.html

Germany and France: http://osmdata.thinkgeo.com/openstreetmap-data/europe/

Constantly updated

product

Digital elevation

100x100m

EU DEM

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/

Altitude, slope, aspect, landform, upper tree line

Soil 1:1 Mio.

European

soil type map

Environmental

regions ca. 1:1

Mio.

Environmental stratification

Metzger,  M, Bunce, RGH, Jongman, RHG, Mucher,  CA & Watkins, JW 2005, 'A climatic stratification  of the environment of Europe' Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 14, pp. 549-563.

Including main climatic

variables

Potential natural vegetation

1:2,5 Mio

Bohn &

Neuhäusl

http://www.floraweb.de/vegetation/dnld_eurovegmap.html

Phenology

250x250 m

HANTS

(Harmoniz ed time series of adjusted MODIS NDVI data)

ALTERRA, Gerbert Roerink

Differentiation arable land vs. grassland

Habitats

EUNIS

http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/index.jsp

Not spatially explicit;

using EUNIS – Corine cross-walk

Marine

Ecosystem

types

2x2 arc minutes

NCEAS

dbSEABED

http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine

and http://instaar.colorado.edu/~jenkinsc/dbseabed/

Based on hard or soft substrate differentiation

Bathymetry

30x30 arc second

GEBCO 08

Grid

http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/

Global bathymetry data sets for the world's oceans.

Sea zones

VLIZ World

EEZ v7 (20.11.2012)

still under revision!

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ, 2012), http://www.marineregions.org

EEZ is the sea zone over which a state has the right to manage and use the marine resources.

Coastal areas

100 x 100m

CLC

Coastal area

2000,2006

ftp://lusiftp@lusiftp.uab.es/222_51_EcosystemMapping/Coastpasswd lusiftp

The coastal area (10 km stripe) based on CLC v16.

Sea ice

1x1km

NASA

MODIS_M OD29

2000- present

http://nsidc.org/data/modis/order_data.html

The sea ice algorithm identifies pixels as sea ice, ocean, land, inland water, cloud or other condition.