Forests 2000 by Major Ecological Domains
Along with the core information on state and changes in forests, FRA 2000 is reporting on various ecological aspects of forests. Forest resources information will be reported by ecological zone, which will contribute to understanding the implications of forest change on (ecosystem) biological diversity and carbon-cycling processes. The 2000 global ecological zone map has been developed, building upon the FRA 1990 experience for the tropics and extending the coverage to include the temperate and boreal forests. A globally consistent classification has been adopted, based on the Koppen-Trewartha climate system in combination with natural vegetation characteristics. A total of 19 global ecological zones have been defined and mapped, ranging from the evergreen tropical rainforest zone to the boreal tundra woodland zone. A main principle of delineating the global ecological zones involved the aggregation or matching of available regional ecological or potential vegetation maps into the global framework.
Simple
- Date ( Creation )
- 2001-07-01
- Edition
- First edition.
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- Main uses of the map include: a) reporting purposes, to provide baseline forest statistics by ecological zone; b) analysis and modelling purposes, i.e. assessment of forest-based biological diversity, both at ecosystem and species level, and biomass modelling.
- Status
- On going
- Keywords
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- FORESTS
- Tag_forestry
- Keywords
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- Ecology
- FRA 2000
- Keywords ( Place )
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- World
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 1999-07-01
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- Supplemental Information
- Main partners of FAO in the development of the EZ map were the UNEP-WCMC, EDC and the have been instrumental in the production of the map by providing their expertise, advice and input data. A key event was the Cambridge expert consultation (July 1999), attended by some 20 regional ecozone experts, where the proposed classification framework was presented and adopted.
- OnLine resource
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Link to FAO Forestry website
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Link to FAO Forestry website
- OnLine resource
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forests_2000_major_ecological_domains
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OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
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Forests 2000 by Major Ecological Domains
- OnLine resource
- frst_gez.axl ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
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frst_gez2.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Forests 2000 by Major Ecological Domains - grid file
- OnLine resource
- frst_gez2.axl ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Description
- Last Updated
- Date / Time
- 2002-05-31 19:58:00
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- ba6b7980-88fd-11da-a88f-000d939bc5d8 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2010-11-19T11:35:18
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
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