A grid-based map for the Biogeographical Regions of Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biogeographical units are widely adopted in ecological research and nature conservation management, even though biogeographical regionalisation is still under scientific debate. The European Environment Agency provided an official map of the European Biogeographical Regions (EBRs), which contains the official boundaries used in the Habitats and Birds Directives. However, these boundaries bisect cells in the official EU 10 km × 10 km grid used for many purposes, including reporting species and habitat data, meaning that 6881 cells overlap two or more regions. Therefore, superimposing the EBRs vector map over the grid creates ambiguities in associating some cells with European Biogeographical Regions.

New information

To provide an operational tool to unambiguously d

SUBMITTER: Cervellini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340631 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature