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Bailey's Ecoregions of the World (1989)
The purpose of the work, which began in 1976, was to show how the national forests of the United States fit within the global ecoregional scheme. In this system an ecoregion is... -
Global tropical dry forest
We present a new global distribution map of tropical dry forest derived from the recently developed MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product, which depicts percentage... -
Overlapping hotspots of depletion of stocks of natural capital asssets...
Overlapping hotspots of depletion of stocks of natural capital asssets (atmosphere, water, soil and sediments, biodiversity) in terrestrial environments, as defined by the top... -
Mountains of the World - 2002
To provide a global context for a discussion of mountain forests, it is first necessary to define the locations and types of mountain forests, and this in turn requires a... -
Global Distribution of Modelled Mangrove Biomass
This dataset shows the modelled global patterns of above ground biomass of mangrove forests. The dataset was developed by the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge,... -
Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Sites 1997
This dataset shows the location of tropical montane cloud forest sites as recorded in a worldwide inventory compiled by UNEP-WCMC and published in "A Global Directory of... -
The World Database on other effective area based conservation measures
In 2018, the governments of the world adopted the following definition of an OECM:“A geographically defined area other than a Protected Area, which is governed and... -
R E S O L V E Ecoregions
Ecoregions, in the simplest definition, are ecosystems of regional extent. Specifically, ecoregions represent distinct assemblages of biodiversity―all taxa, not just... -
Global Distribution of Islands - Open Street Map ( O S M) (2015)
This dataset shows the global distribution of islands. This dataset has been substantially refined through the work of a number of organisations, including UNEP World... -
Global Distribution of Mangroves U S G S (2015)
This dataset shows the global distribution of mangrove forests, derived from earth observation satellite imagery. The dataset was created using Global Land Survey (GLS) data and... -
Mountains of the World - 2000
To produce this map, topographical data from the GTOPO30 global digital elevation model (USGS EROS Data Center 1996) were used to generate slope and local (5km radius) elevation... -
Biogeographical Realms of the World (2004)
This map is a simplified representation of the eight Biogeographical Realms of the world. This global map provides a useful general framework for conducting biogeographical or... -
Human Pressures on biodiversity, water and carbon
In order to describe the human pressures on the biodiversity component of nature, we used the 2009 Human Footprint (HF) map. The HF is a widely recognised dataset describing the... -
Marine Ecoregions and Pelagic Provinces of the World (2007; 2012)
This dataset combines two separately published datasets: the “Marine Ecoregions Of the World” (MEOW; 2007) and the “Pelagic Provinces Of the World” (PPOW; 2012). These datasets... -
Holdridge's Life Zones (1992)
Holdridge’s work was aimed to correlate world plant formations with simple climatic data. The system embraces all major environmental factors in three hierarchical tiers. Level... -
Udvardy's Biogeographical Provinces (1975)
Udvardy's map of biogeographical provinces. There are three versions of the dataset present. All are in geographic coordinates, WGS84. 1. Udvardy_py - the dataset in its... -
Global Distribution of Seamounts and Knolls (2011)
This dataset shows the global distribution of seamounts and knolls identified using global bathymetric data at 30 arc-sec resolution. A total of 33,452 seamounts and 138,412... -
Reefs at Risk Revisited
The Reefs at Risk Revisited report provides a detailed assessment of the status of and threats to the world's coral reefs. It evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range... -
World Atlas of Mangroves (2018)
This dataset shows the global distribution of mangroves, and was produced as a joint initiative of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), International Society... -
Global Generalised ' Original' and ' Current' Forest
This dataset, compiled from various sources at UNEP-WCMC, shows the current extent of global forest cover and the original extent of global forest cover before human impact. It...