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World Wildlife Fund Ecoregions, 2000
- 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
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
- Publication Date
- 2000
- Title
- World Wildlife Fund Ecoregions, 2000
- Edition
- 2000
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ESRI Data Maps
- Issue Identification
- 2000
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
- Other Citation Details
- Location: ESRI Data Maps 2000 (CD 1) \world
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/landinfo_world_wwf_2000.zip
- Abstract
- World Wildlife Fund Ecoregions represents global terrestrial and freshwater ecoregions defined as relatively large areas of land or water in the world that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. It contains the terrestrial habitats and some freshwater habitats of the Global 200 ecoregions, a collection of the Earth's most outstanding and diverse terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats--areas where the Earth's biological wealth is most distinctive and rich, where its loss will be most severely felt, and where we must fight the hardest for conservation. The data is from the World Wildlife Fund Conservation Science Program 1998 - 1999. For more information, contact http://www.worldwildlife.org.
- Purpose
- World Wildlife Fund Ecoregions provides a global view of mainly terrestrial ecoregions defined by the World Wildlife Fund Conservation Science Program 1998 - 1999, 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
- Time Instant
- 1999
- Bounding Box
- West
- -180.000000
- East
- 180.000000
- North
- 83.623596
- South
- -67.600006
- Theme Keyword
- Biota
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories.
- Theme Keyword
- ecoregions
- ecosystems
- species richness
- species endemism
- ecological
- evolutionary
- habitat
- global rarity
- biodiversity
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- World
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 1999
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For current Columbia affiliates only.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Unknown
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping, LLC
- Delivery Point
- PO Box 261961
- City
- Highlands Ranch
- State
- CO
- Postal Code
- 80163-1951
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 303-790-9730
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- sales@landinfo.com
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.6.1500
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- Nine data sets were merged together to create this one shapefile and great lengths were taken to ensure no duplicate features are present, but it can't be guaranteed. The shapefile is exported using Avenue request ExportClean. This request verifies and enforces the correctness of shapes.
- 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
- 1999
- Title
- World Wildlife Fund Conservation Science Program 1998 - 1999
- Edition
- 1998 - 1999
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC, USA
- Publisher
- World Wildlife Fund
- Source Scale Denominator
- 1000000
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1999
- 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
- 24944
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- 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_eco
- Entity Type Definition
- The polygons represent global terrestrial and freshwater ecoregions defined as relatively large areas of land or water in the world that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- ECOREGION
- The descriptive name for the ecoregion. Ecoregions are relatively large areas of land or water that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- MHT_NAME
- The major habitat for the area.
- Boreal forest/taigas
- Boreal forest/taigas major habitat.
- Deserts and xeric shrublands
- Deserts and xeric shrublands major habitat.
- Flooded grasslands
- Flooded grasslands major habitat.
- Mangroves
- Mangroves major habitat.
- Mediterranean scrub
- Mediterranean scrub major habitat.
- Montane grasslands
- Montane grasslands major habitat.
- Snow, ice, glaciers, and rock
- Snow, ice, glaciers, and rock major habitat.
- Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests major habitat.
- Temperate coniferous forests
- Temperate coniferous forests major habitat.
- Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands major habitat.
- Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
- Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests major habitat.
- Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
- Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests major habitat.
- Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands major habitat.
- Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
- Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests major habitat.
- Tundra
- Tundra major habitat.
- Unknown
- Major habitat is unknown.
- Water
- Water.
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- BDI
- The biological distinctiveness index. It is based on the species richness, endemism, rareness, etc.
- 1
- Globally outstanding in biological distinctiveness.
- 2
- Regionally outstanding in biological distinctiveness.
- 3
- Bioregionally outstanding in biological distinctiveness.
- 4
- Locally important in biological distinctiveness.
- 0
- Not assessed or unknown.
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- THREAT
- The degree of threat to the ecoregion. Such threats are from logging, conversion to agriculture/urbanization, etc.
- 1
- Critical in degree of threat.
- 2
- Endangered in degree of threat.
- 3
- Vulnerable in degree of threat.
- 4
- Relatively stable in degree of threat.
- 5
- Relatively intact in degree of threat.
- 0
- Not assessed or unknown.
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- FINAL
- The final assessment of the ecoregion as the estimated threat to the ecoregion over the next 20 years.
- 1
- Critical in estimated threat over the next 20 years.
- 2
- Endangered in estimated threat over the next 20 years.
- 3
- Vulnerable in estimated threat over the next 20 years.
- 4
- Relatively stable in estimated threat over the next 20 years.
- 5
- Relatively intact in estimated threat over the next 20 years.
- 0
- Not assessed or unknown.
- Definition Source
- World Wildlife Fund
- Distribution Information
- Distributor
- LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping, LLC
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20080923
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St., 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212)854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
