EFG MFT1.3 Coastal saltmarsh – previous maps

MFT1. Brackish tidal biome

MFT1
alt versions
Published

June 7, 2024

Version history

This page provides information about older or alternative versions of indicative distribution map for this ecosystem functional group MFT1.3 Coastal saltmarsh. Check the current maps here.

  • Indicative Map (code: MFT1.3.IM.orig, version v2.1) requires review
  • Indicative Map (code: MFT1.3.IM.orig, version v2.0) replaced
  • Web navigation (code: MFT1.3.web.orig, version v1.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: MFT1.3.WM.nwx, version v1.0) in preparation

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • GlobalSaltmarshes2017 (McOwen et al. 2017).
  • MEOW-2008 (Spalding MD et al. 2008).
  • Tropical-Wetlands-v2 (Gumbricht et al. 2017).
dataset url
GlobalSaltmarshes2017 https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/43
MEOW-2008 https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/marine-ecoregions-of-the-world-a-bioregionalization-of-coastal-and-shelf-areas :: https://databasin.org/datasets/3b6b12e7bcca419990c9081c0af254a2 :: http://maps.tnc.org/gis_data.html
Tropical-Wetlands-v2 http://www.cifor.org/global-wetlands/ :: https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/dataset/1614/ :: https://doi.org/10.17528/CIFOR/DATA.00058

Available files

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

MFT1.3.IM.orig (v2.1): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

MFT1.3.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
GlobalSaltmarshes2017 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
MEOW-2008 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • Spalding MD, Fox HE, Allen GR, Davidson N, Ferdaña ZA, Finlayson M, Halpern BS, Jorge MA, Lombana A, Lourie SA, Martin KD, McManus E, Molnar J, Recchia CA, Robertson J (2007) Marine ecoregions of the world: a bioregionalization of coastal and shelf areas. Bioscience 57: 573–583. DOI:10.1641/B570707

  • McOwen CJ, Weatherdon LV, van Bochove JW, Sullivan E, Blyth S, Zockler C, Stanwell-Smith D, Kingston N, Martin CS, Spalding M, Fletcher S (2017) A global map of saltmarshes Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e11764 DOI:10.3897/BDJ.5.e11764

  • Thomas Gumbricht Rosa Maria Roman‐Cuesta Louis Verchot Martin Herold Florian Wittmann Ethan Householder Nadine Herold Daniel Murdiyarso (2017) An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor Glob Change Biol. 23: 3581– 3599 DOI:10.1111/gcb.13689