EFG F2.6 Perm salt 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 F2.6 Perm salt lakes. Check the current maps here.

  • Indicative Map (code: F2.6.IM.mix, version v3.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: F2.6.IM.alt, version v2.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: F2.6.IM.orig, version v2.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: F2.6.IM.mix, version v2.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: F2.6.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review
  • Web navigation (code: F2.6.web.map, version v1.0) duplicated
  • Indicative Map (code: F2.6.IM.mix, version v1.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: F2.6.IM.orig, version v1.0) replaced

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • CRU-TS-v4 (Harris et al. 2014).
  • FEOW-2008 (Abell et al. 2008).
  • GSW-1.1 (Pekel et al. 2016).
  • HydroAtlas-1.0 (Linke et al. 2019).
  • HydroLAKES-1.0 (Messager et al. 2016).
  • Saline-lake-list (Wurtsbaugh et al. 2017).
dataset url
CRU-TS-v4 https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/
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
HydroAtlas-1.0 https://www.hydrosheds.org/page/hydroatlas
HydroLAKES-1.0 https://www.hydrosheds.org/page/hydrolakes
Saline-lake-list https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3052

Available files

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

F2.6.IM.orig (v2.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

F2.6.web.orig (v1.0): GitHub repository

F2.6.web.map (v1.0): Mapbox tileset

F2.6.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

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
CRU-TS-v4 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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/
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/

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • Harris, I., Jones, P.D., Osborn, T.J. and Lister, D.H. (2014), Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset. International Journal of Climatology 34, 623-642 doi:10.1002/joc.3711 Revised appendix
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wurtsbaugh, W., Miller, C., Null, S. et al. Decline of the world’s saline lakes. Nature Geoscience 10, 816–821 (2017). 10.1038/ngeo3052