EFG MT3.1 Artificial shores – previous maps

MT3. Anthropogenic shorelines 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 MT3.1 Artificial shores. Check the current maps here.

  • Web navigation (code: MT3.1.web.grid, version v2.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: MT3.1.IM.orig, version v1.0) requires more work
  • Indicative Map (code: MT3.1.IM.grid, version v1.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: MT3.1.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • MEOW-2008 (Spalding MD et al. 2008).
  • SRTM30-PLUS-V11 (Becker et al. 2009).
dataset url
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
SRTM30-PLUS-V11 ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/srtm30_plus/ :: https://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html

Available files

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

MT3.1.web.grid (v2.0): Mapbox tileset

MT3.1.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

MT3.1.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
MEOW-2008 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0
SRTM30-PLUS-V11 https://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/srtm30_plus/topo30/COPYRIGHT.txt

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

  • Becker JJ, Sandwell DT, Smith WHF, Braud J, Binder B, Depner J, Fabre D, Factor J, Ingalls S, Kim S-H, Ladner R, Marks K, Nelson S, Pharaoh A, Trimmer R, Von Rosenberg J, Wallace G, Weatherall P (2009) Global Bathymetry and Elevation Data at 30 Arc Seconds Resolution: SRTM30_PLUS, Marine Geodesy 32: 355-371. DOI:10.1080/01490410903297766