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World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions 2008
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- World Wildlife Fund
- Originator
- ESRI
- Publication Date
- 20080401
- Title
- World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions 2008
- Edition
- 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ESRI® Data Maps
- Issue Identification
- 2008 World, Europe, United States, Canada, and Mexico
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/downloads/c6d0ac63-3532-4080-a93b-a952693efd1c/file/aafd6f00-866c-46a5-9b07-c8df06bdc111
- Abstract
- World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions represents global terrestrial ecoregions. Ecoregions are defined as relatively large areas of land or water in the world containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. This data set contains all terrestrial ecoregions, which include those of the Global 200. Global 200 ecoregions are a collection of the Earth's most outstanding and diverse terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats where the Earth's biological wealth is most distinctive and rich, where its loss will be most severely felt, and we must protect if we are to preserve the web of life. For more information, contact http://www.worldwildlife.org.
- Purpose
- World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions provides a global view of terrestrial ecoregions defined by the World Wildlife Fund Conservation Science Program, and can be used for geographic display and analysis at national and world levels.
- Supplemental Information
- Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:3,000,000.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Bounding Box
- West
- -179.999989
- East
- 179.999993
- North
- 83.623131
- South
- -89.891973
- Theme Keyword
- polygon
- ecoregions
- ecosystems
- species richness
- species endemism
- ecological
- evolutionary
- habitat
- global rarity
- biodiversity
- global 200
- biota
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- World
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- 2001
- 2005
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- Access granted to Licensee only.
- Use Restrictions
- The data are provided by multiple, third party data vendors under license to ESRI for inclusion on ESRI Data Maps for use with ESRI® software. Each data vendor has its own data licensing policies and may grant varying redistribution rights to end users. Please consult the redistribution rights below for this data set provided on ESRI Data Maps. As used herein, “Geodata” shall mean any digital data set consisting of geographic data coordinates and associated attributes. The redistribution rights for this data set: Internal Use Only. No redistribution rights are granted by the data vendor and the data is for the end user's own internal use only. Special notice from World Wildlife Fund for this data set: Any modification of the original map by users to ecoregion boundaries, units, names, or realm and biome classes must be noted. The terms and conditions below apply to all the data sets provided on ESRI Data Maps. 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- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Annually
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Princeton University Library
- City
- Princeton
- State
- New Jersey
- Postal Code
- 08544
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 609-258-6804
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- shawatw@princeton.edu
- Hours of Service
- 8:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m. EST, Monday–Friday
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.706
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format using either ESRI SDC Data Development Kit Professional 2 (DDKP2) or tools in ArcGIS. The SDC data set is then loaded into ArcSDE® to verify and validate the geometry.
- Completeness Report
- After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- The geospatial part of this data set is based on the Digital Chart of the World (1:1,000,000 scale) that has been generalized. Generalizing reduces positional accuracy and the tolerance was not recorded so the positional accuracy is not known.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- World Wildlife Fund
- Publication Date
- 200501
- Title
- World Wildlife Fund Conservation Science Program
- Edition
- 2005
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC, USA
- Publisher
- World Wildlife Fund
- Other Citation Details
- Olson, D. M. and E. Dinerstein. The Global 200: Priority ecoregions for global conservation. (PDF file) Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 89:125-126. [2001] Cited in reference sections, on maps, or on databases with the full citation: Olson, D.M., E. Dinerstein, E.D. Wikramanayake, N.D. Burgess, G.V.N. Powell, E.C. Underwood, J.A. D'Amico, H.E. Strand, J.C. Morrison, C.J. Loucks, T.F. Allnutt, J.F. Lamoreux, T.H. Ricketts, I. Itoua, W.W. Wettengel, Y. Kura, P. Hedao, and K. Kassem. 2001. Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: A new map of life on Earth. BioScience 51(11):933-938.
- Source Scale Denominator
- 1000000
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 200501
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Attribute and geospatial data
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 832
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000009
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000009
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257224
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- wwf_terr
- Entity Type Definition
- The polygons represent global terrestrial ecoregions defined as relatively large areas of land in the world that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. Ecoregions function effectively as conservation units because they encompass similar biological communities and because their boundaries roughly coincide with the area over which key ecological processes most strongly interact. These features can help conservation planners better achieve representation and persistence of biodiversity when developing conservation strategies for individual ecoregions.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- Attributes
- ObjectID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- ECO_NAME
- The descriptive name for the ecoregion. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- REALM
- The continental-scale biogeographic regions defined by differences in geologic and climatic history that contain distinct assemblages of plants and animals, particularly at higher taxonomic levels. The realms used are roughly based on Pielou's "biogeographic regions." (Pielou, E.C., 1979, Biogeography. Wiley, NY). (Descriptions for the features.)
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- BIOME
- Broad kinds of ecoregions that: a) Experience comparable climatic regimes; b) Have similar vegetation structure; c) Display similar spatial patterns of biodiversity; and d) Contain flora and fauna with similar guild structures and life histories. e) Similar minimum requirements and thresholds for maintaining certain biodiversity features. f) Have similar sensitivities to human disturbance.
- 1
- Tropical Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests.
- 2
- Tropical Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests.
- 3
- Tropical Subtropical Coniferous Forests.
- 4
- Temperate Broadleaf Mixed Forests.
- 5
- Temperate Conifer Forests.
- 6
- Boreal Forests/Taiga.
- 7
- Tropical Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas Shrublands.
- 8
- Temperate Grasslands, Savannas Shrublands.
- 9
- Flooded Grasslands Savannas.
- 10
- Montane Grasslands Shrublands.
- 11
- Tundra.
- 12
- Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands Scrub.
- 13
- Deserts Xeric Shrublands.
- 14
- Mangroves.
- 98
- Lake.
- 99
- Rock and ice.
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- BIOME_DESC
- The descriptions of the biomes. (Descriptions for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- ECO_NUM
- The number is a unique number for each ecoregion within each biome nested within each realm.
- 0
- Not an Ecoregion Number.
- Number
- Unique numbers for the features.
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- STATUS
- The 30-year prediction of future conservation status given current conservation status and trajectories. (Descriptions for the features.)
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- PRIORITY
- The indicator that the ecoregion is a Global 200 ecoregion.
- Yes
- The ecoregion is a Global 200 ecoregion.
- blank
- The ecoregion is not a Global 200 ecoregion.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- G200_NUM
- The unique number identifying Global 200 ecoregions.
- 0
- Not a Global 200 Number.
- Number
- Unique numbers for the features.
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- Distribution Information
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20081006
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Princeton University Library
- Contact Person
- Tsering Wangyal Shawa
- Contact Address
- City
- Princeton
- State or Province
- New Jersey
- Postal Code
- 08544
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 609-258-6804
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- shawatw@princeton.edu
- Hours of Service
- 8:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m. EST, Monday–Friday
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata Extensions
- Online Linkage
- http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name
- ESRI Metadata Profile
