EFG F1.6 Episodic arid rivers – previous maps

F1. Rivers and streams biome

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Published

June 7, 2024

Version history

This page provides information about older or alternative versions of indicative distribution map for this ecosystem functional group F1.6 Episodic arid rivers. Check the current maps here.

  • Indicative Map (code: F1.6.IM.alt, version v2.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: F1.6.IM.orig, version v1.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: F1.6.WM.nwx, version v1.0) in preparation
  • Indicative Map (code: F1.6.IM.mix, version v1.0) superceeded
  • Web navigation (code: F1.6.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • FEOW-2008 (Abell et al. 2008).
  • GIRES-v1.0 (Messager et al. 2021).
  • GloRIC-1.0 (Ouellet Dallaire et al. 2018).
  • GSW-1.1 (Pekel et al. 2016).
dataset url
FEOW-2008 https://www.feow.org/ :: https://geospatial.tnc.org/datasets/38da4656e8074e1c820c42cc21cd76cd_0
GIRES-v1.0 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14633022.v1 :: http://messamat.github.io/globalirmap/
GSW-1.1 https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/download :: https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/JRC_GSW1_1_YearlyHistory
GloRIC-1.0 https://www.hydrosheds.org/page/gloric

Available files

You can download geospatial data for older versions of these maps from the following sources:

F1.6.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

F1.6.IM.mix (v1.0): Google Cloud bucket :: Zenodo repository (bundle of maps)

F1.6.web.orig (v1.0): GitHub repository

Note that you need to login to some services like mapbox or earthengine, and in some cases you also need to request access to the files.

License information

Indicative maps have been released with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

But see details of dataset licenses below:

dataset license_info
FEOW-2008 https://www.feow.org/copyright :: custom license :: non commercial use
GIRES-v1.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
GSW-1.1 produced under the Copernicus Programme and is provided free of charge, without restriction of use :: Copernicus Regulation :: http://www.copernicus.eu/main/data-access/
GloRIC-1.0 freely available for scientific; educational and commercial use :: https://data.hydrosheds.org/file/technical-documentation/HydroSHEDS_TechDoc_v1_4.pdf

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • Messager, M. L., Lehner, B., Cockburn, C., Lamouroux, N., Pella, H., Snelder, T., Tockner, K., Trautmann, T., Watt, C. & Datry, T. (2021) Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams Nature DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03565-5
  • Ouellet Dallaire, C., Lehner, B., Sayre, R., Thieme, M. (2018): A multidisciplinary framework to derive global river reach classifications at high spatial resolution. Environmental Research Letters 14: 024003. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aad8e9
  • Abell R, Thieme ML, Revenga C, Bryer M, Kottelat M, Bogutskaya N, Coad B, Mandrak N, Contreras Balderas S, Bussing W, Stiassny MLJ, Skelton P, Allen GR, Unmack P, Naseka A, Ng R, Sindorf N, Robertson J, Armijo E, Higgins JV, Heibel TJ, Wikramanayake E, Olson D, López HL, Reis RE, Lundberg JG, Sabaj Pérez MH, Petry P (2008) Freshwater ecoregions of the world: A new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation, BioScience 58: 403–414. DOI:10.1641/B580507
  • Pekel JF, Cottam A, Gorelick N, Belward AS (2016) High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes Nature 540, 418-422 DOI:10.1038/nature20584