Base_Layers.md

Sources

Base Layers

COUNTRIES (2024)

• LAND
  • GISCO CNTR_RG_01M_2024
  • GISCO CNTR_AT
• MARINE
  • GISCO EEZ_RG_01M_2020

COUNTRIES (2019)

• COUNTRY CODES (ISO 3166-1 AND ISO 3166-3). International Organization for Standardization (2019). Downloaded on 20191122.

• Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase (EEZ). Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Version 11. https://doi.org/10.14284/382. Downloaded on 20191122.

• Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL). FAO-UN (2015). Downloaded on 20160718. This dataset is discontinued.

ECOREGIONS

(V2016,2019,2020)

• Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K.R. 2001. Bioscience 51(11):933-938. Downloaded on 201603.

(V2016,2019,2020,2024)

• Marine Ecoregions and Pelagic Provinces of the World.The Nature Conservancy (2012). GIS layers developed by The Nature Conservancy with multiple partners, combined from Spalding et al. (2007) and Spalding et al. (2012). Cambridge (UK): The Nature Conservancy. Downloaded on 20160720.

(2024)

+An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm. Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, Anup Joshi, Carly Vynne, Neil D. Burgess, Eric Wikramanayake, Nathan Hahn, Suzanne Palminteri, Prashant Hedao, Reed Noss, Matt Hansen, Harvey Locke, Erle C Ellis, Benjamin Jones, Charles Victor Barber, Randy Hayes, Cyril Kormos, Vance Martin, Eileen Crist, Wes Sechrest, Lori Price, Jonathan E. M. Baillie, Don Weeden, Kierán Suckling, Crystal Davis, Nigel Sizer, Rebecca Moore, David Thau, Tanya Birch, Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova, Alexandra Tyukavina, Nadia de Souza, Lilian Pintea, José C. Brito, Othman A. Llewellyn, Anthony G. Miller, Annette Patzelt, Shahina A. Ghazanfar, Jonathan Timberlake, Heinz Klöser, Yara Shennan-Farpón, Roeland Kindt, Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Paulo van Breugel, Lars Graudal, Maianna Voge, Khalaf F. Al-Shammari, Muhammad Saleem. BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545.

Downloaded on 20240423 from link reported in Announcing the release of Ecoregion Snapshots.

+FRESHWATER ECOREGIONS OF THE WORLD - WWF AND TNC (The Nature Conservancy)-2008

Downloaded on 20230419 from: https://geospatial.tnc.org/datasets/TNC::freshwater-ecoregions-of-the-world-feow/about

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