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English: Map of tropical forest ecological zones based on Global Ecological Zones (second edition), UN FAO.
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Author Mark Marathon

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http://data.fao.org/maps/wms archive copy at the Wayback Machine

Global Ecological Zones (second edition)

Date 2013-11-25

Date type Creation: Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence

Edition Second edition.

Presentation form Digital map: Map represented in raster or vector form

Abstract The Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) presents global and regional forest data by global ecological zone (GEZ). The GEZ spatial dataset used by FAO has developed over the years from covering only the tropical areas (1990) to the globe (2000). Due to the developments in remote sensing and the compiling of many spatial products relating to climate and land cover between 2000 and 2010, an update to the map was commissioned and resulted in the available GEZ 2010 product

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: Data is continually being updated

Descriptive keywords FORESTS .

Descriptive keywords Global Ecological Zones , FRA 2015 .

Descriptive keywords World (place).

Spatial representation type Vector: Vector data is used to represent geographic data

Language English

Character set UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Topic category code Biota

Topic category code Environment

The spatial data identified as FAO Core Datasets share the following characteristics: • Coarse resolution data, between 30 arcsec and 10 arcmin for the rasters, and between 1:1 million and 1:10 million scale for the vectors. • Related to a global, continental or regional level. Country data are not considered at this stage. • FAO as the main producer of the data or with publication rights as partner of a group that released the data. • Data release and access is unrestricted (public domain). • Primary (observed, mapped) and modeled data qualify.

Remi D’Annunzio FAO FOM Forestry Department Forestry officer +390657053395 Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Rome 00151 Italy

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