EFG F2.1 Large perm lakes – previous maps

F2. Lakes 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 F2.1 Large perm lakes. Check the current maps here.

  • Indicative Map (code: F2.1.IM.alt, version v3.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: F2.1.IM.alt, version v2.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: F2.1.IM.orig, version v1.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: F2.1.WM.nwx, version v1.0) in preparation
  • Web navigation (code: F2.1.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • FEOW-2008 (Abell et al. 2008).
  • GSW-1.1 (Pekel et al. 2016).
  • HydroLAKES-1.0 (Messager et al. 2016).
  • KG-climate-2018 (Beck et al. 2018).
dataset url
FEOW-2008 https://www.feow.org/ :: https://geospatial.tnc.org/datasets/38da4656e8074e1c820c42cc21cd76cd_0
GSW-1.1 https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/download :: https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/JRC_GSW1_1_YearlyHistory
HydroLAKES-1.0 https://www.hydrosheds.org/page/hydrolakes
KG-climate-2018 http://www.gloh2o.org/koppen/ :: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6396959

Available files

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

F2.1.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

F2.1.web.orig (v1.0): Mapbox tileset

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
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/
HydroLAKES-1.0 Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International License :: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
KG-climate-2018 https://www.gloh2o.org/terms-of-use/ :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ :: CC BY 4.0

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • Beck, H., Zimmermann, N., McVicar, T. et al. (2018) Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution Sci Data 5, 180214 DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.214
  • 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
  • Messager, M.L., Lehner, B., Grill, G., Nedeva, I., Schmitt, O. (2016) Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach Nature Communications 13603 DOI:10.1038/ncomms13603