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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
World Atlas of Biodiversity
World Atlas of Biodiversity addresses the remarkable growth in concern at all levels for living things and the environment and the increased appreciated of the links between... -
The Benefits of Natural World Heritage
This study, funded by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, represents the first time that ecosystem services and the wider benefits delivered by natural World... -
African Natural Heritage: Possible Priorities for the World Heritage List
Africa is the world’s second-largest continent, covering about a fifth of the planet’s land area, and home to a wide variety of environments from coral reefs to rainforests.... -
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... -
Boundary of the Study Area (UN-GIS, 2018)
Boundary of the study area (UN-GIS, 2018) Processed by UNEP/GRID-Geneva on November 11, 2019.