EFG M1.5 Marine animal forests – previous maps

M1. Marine shelf biome

M1
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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 M1.5 Marine animal forests. Check the current maps here.

  • Web navigation (code: M1.5.WM.nwx, version v1.0) in preparation

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • Octocorals-suitability-2012 (Yesson et al. 2012).
dataset url
Octocorals-suitability-2012 https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/40 :: http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.775081

Available files

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

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
Octocorals-suitability-2012 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • Yesson C, Taylor ML, Tittensor DP, Davies AJ, Guinotte J, Baco A, Black J, Hall-Spencer JM, Rogers AD (2012) Global habitat suitability of cold-water Octocorals Journal of Biogeography 39: 1278-1292 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02681.x