EFG F2.5 Ephemeral lakes – previous maps
F2. Lakes biome
F2
alt versions
Version history
This page provides information about older or alternative versions of indicative distribution map for this ecosystem functional group F2.5 Ephemeral lakes. Check the current maps here.
- Indicative Map (code: F2.5.IM.alt, version v2.0) discarded
- Indicative Map (code: F2.5.IM.orig, version v1.0) discarded
- Web navigation (code: F2.5.web.map, version v1.0) duplicated
- Web navigation (code: F2.5.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review
Datasets
Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map
- FEOW-2008 (Abell et al. 2008).
- GLWD-2004 (Lehner and Döll 2004).
- GSW-1.1 (Pekel et al. 2016).
- HydroAtlas-1.0 (Linke et al. 2019).
- HydroLAKES-1.0 (Messager et al. 2016).
- KG-climate-2018 (Beck et al. 2018).
Available files
You can download geospatial data for older versions of these maps from the following sources:
F2.5.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)
F2.5.web.map (v1.0): Mapbox tileset
F2.5.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 |
| GLWD-2004 | The data is available for free download for non-commercial scientific :: conservation and educational purposes |
| 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/ |
| HydroAtlas-1.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ :: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International License |
| 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
- Lehner, B. and Döll, P. (2004): Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands. Journal of Hydrology 296/1-4: 1-22. Data-set
- Linke, S., Lehner, B., Ouellet Dallaire, C., Ariwi, J., Grill, G., Anand, M., Beames, P., Burchard-Levine, V., Maxwell, S., Moidu, H., Tan, F., Thieme, M. (2019) Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution Scientific Data 6: 283 DOI:10.1038/s41597-019-0300-6