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Percent Tree Cover in Mountain Regions 2002
The mountains dataset has been overlaid with a global data set on percent tree cover taken from MODIS 1-km resolution percent tree cover data, courtesy of University of Maryland... -
I B Pow ( Island Biodiversity Programme of Work) database
The dataset shows the global distribution of islands greater than about 0.06 sq-km. The information given here relates to version 1 of the dataset. This dataset, also known as... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 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... -
Global Map of Terrestrial Habitat Types
Global spatially explicit characterization of 47 (version 001) terrestrial habitat types, as defined in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) habitat... -
Global Distribution of Saltmarshes
This dataset displays the extent of our knowledge regarding the distribution of saltmarshes globally, drawing from occurrence data (surveyed and/or remotely sensed). The dataset... -
World Dryland Areas
The original dataset developed by the MA is a subset of the aridity zone map created by CRU/UEA, UNEP/GRID for the World Atlas of Desertification. Aridity zones were derived... -
Global Ecological Forest Classification and Forest Protected Area Gap...
Deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate worldwide and jeopardize the tremendous diversity of species and habitat types present in forests around the... -
Global Distribution of Coral Reefs
This dataset is the most comprehensive global dataset of warm-water coral reefs to date, acting as a foundation baseline map for future, more detailed, work. This dataset was... -
Ocean Data Viewer
The Ocean Data Viewer (ODV) offers users the opportunity to view and download a range of global datasets on coastal and marine biodiversity (such as corals, mangroves and... -
CITES Wildlife TradeView
CITES Wildlife TradeView is an interactive online tool for exploring and visualising CITES trade data. It enables users to visualise trends in international wildlife trade... -
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...