EMODnet product catalogue
Biogenic substrate in European waters
This layer shows the current known extent of biogenic substrate in European waters. This product was first produced in 2021 with the aim to add a new class of substrate into the EUSeaMap substrate layer. This was required in order to classify the EUSeaMap broad-scale habitat map according to the 2019 version of the EUNIS habitat classification system, which includes a biogenic substrate category. This layer has been updated in 2023 to feed into an updated version of EUSeaMap. The geographic extent of this product was extended in 2023 to include jurisdictional waters (including continental shelf and claimed extended continental shelf) of EU Member States, the United Kingdom (UK) and Norway including areas in the Caribbean Sea.
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- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-19
- Citation identifier
- 2328d839-8024-47f3-aca6-32d788afe3dd
- Credit
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Contains data from Global Distribution of Coral Reefs (v4.1 March 2021). UNEP-WCMC, WorldFish Centre, WRI, TNC (2021). Global distribution of warm-water coral reefs, compiled from multiple sources including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 4.1. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001). Cambridge (UK): UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Data DOI: https://doi.org/10.34892/t2wk-5t34
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Owner
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Data is available under a creative commons attribution-NonCommercial licence (CC BY-NC 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 1991-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
GML
3.2.1
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view/wms? biogenic_substrate_2023
OGC:WFS https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open/wfs? biogenic_substrate_2023
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/BiogenicSubstrate_2023.zip Biogenic substrate 2023 download
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geoviewer/?layers=12620:1:1&basemap=ebwbl&active=12620&bounds=-15143188.804734685,1082806.6888501532,5737887.704689144,10842972.314680232&filters=&projection=EPSG:3857 View this layer on the EMODnet Map Viewer
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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This dataset was first created in 2021 by extracting relevant polygons from the EMODnet Seabed Habitats collation of individual habitat maps from surveys. This product was updated in 2023 using the individual habitat maps from survey that were available on the 18th May 2023 in combination with Caribbean data from the UNEP WCMC Global Distribution of Coral Reefs data. Only a subset of the UNEP-WCMC data were used in this product, namely in the areas of interest in the Caribbean Sea and particular habitats. The products were clipped to these areas and then filtered and combined with the EMODnet Seabed Habitats data. The attributes were amended to remove many fields that are redundant for this data layer e.g. taxonomic fields and areas. Information about the source were retained. Where overlaps in polygons occurred preference was given to the habitat maps from survey collated by EMODnet Seabed Habitats.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2328d839-8024-47f3-aca6-32d788afe3dd XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-03-20T11:16:50.723Z
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Point of contact
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