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The EUNIS habitat classification is a comprehensive pan-European system to facilitate the harmonised description and collection of data across Europe through the use of criteria for habitat identification. It is hierarchical and covers all types of habitat from natural to artificial, from terrestrial to freshwater and marine. An extensive review of the EUNIS habitat classification was initiated in 2012 based on
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EUNIS wetlands habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS forest and other wooded land habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS vegetated man-made habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GeopackageGDBESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS heathland, scrub and tundra habitat type, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS coastal habitat types, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GeopackageGDBESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS vegetated man-made habitat types, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GeopackageGDBESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS Littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes), distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GeopackageGDBESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS coastal habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GeopackageGDBESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS Littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes), predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GeopackageGDBESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS wetlands habitat types, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
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EUNIS grassland and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS forest and other wooded land habitat types, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS coastal habitat types probability maps - version 1, Dec. 2021GeoTIFFOGC:WMSESRI:REST
Published: 30 Nov 2023
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
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Producing European habitat probability maps for wetlands and coastal habitats based on in-situ vegetation plots, environmental data and Copernicus land cover.
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EUNIS forest and other wooded land habitat types probability maps - version 1, Dec. 2021GeoTIFFESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 1 May 2023
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
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Processing European habitats probability maps for EUNIS Forest (T), Heathland, scrub and tundra (S) and Grassland (R) habitat types based on vegetation relevés, environmental data and Copernicus land cover
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EUNIS heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types probability maps - version 1, Dec. 2021GeoTIFFOGC:WMSESRI:REST
Published: 30 Nov 2023
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
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Processing European habitats probability maps for EUNIS Forest (T), Heathland, scrub and tundra (S) and Grassland (R) habitat types based on vegetation relevés, environmental data and Copernicus land cover
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EUNIS grassland and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types probability maps - version 1, Nov. 2021GeoTIFFESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 14 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS wetlands habitat types probability maps - version 1, Nov. 2021GDBGeopackageESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 14 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
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Producing European habitat probability maps for wetlands and coastal habitats based on in-situ vegetation plots, environmental data and Copernicus land cover
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EUNIS littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes) probability maps - version 1, Nov. 2021GeoTIFFESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 14 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation probability maps - version 1, Nov. 2021GeoTIFFESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 14 Nov 2021
Temporal coverage: 1940-2017
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EUNIS habitat distribution plots (spatial data)
This series of metadata corresponds to the EUNIS distribution based on vegetation plot dataset for the following habitat types:
MA - Littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes)
N - Coastal habitat types
Q - Wetlands habitat types
R - Grassland and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types
S - Heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types
T - Forest and other wooded land habitat types
U - Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
V - Vegetated man-made habitat types