EFG T5.1 Semi-desert steppe – previous maps

T5. Deserts and semi-deserts biome

T5
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 T5.1 Semi-desert steppe. Check the current maps here.

  • Indicative Map (code: T5.1.IM.alt, version v2.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: T5.1.IM.orig, version v1.0) replaced
  • Web navigation (code: T5.1.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • CRU-TS-v4 (Harris et al. 2014).
  • EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 (Tuanmu et al. 2014).
  • Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017).
  • NA (UNEP 1992).
dataset url
CRU-TS-v4 https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/
EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 https://earthenv.org//landcover
Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 https://ecoregions2017.appspot.com/ :: https://geospatial.tnc.org/datasets/7b7fb9d945544d41b3e7a91494c42930_0

Available files

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

T5.1.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

T5.1.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
CRU-TS-v4 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013469 :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • NA
  • Tuanmu, M.-N. and W. Jetz (2014) A global 1-km consensus land-cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modeling Global Ecology and Biogeography 23(9):1031–1045 DOI:10.1111/geb.12182
  • Dinerstein E, Olson D, Joshi A, Vynne C, Burgess ND, Wikramanayake E, Hahn N, Palminteri S, Hedao P, Noss R, Hansen M, Locke H, Ellis EE, Jones B, Barber CV, Hayes R, Kormos C, Martin V, Crist E, Sechrest W, Price L, Baillie JEM, Weeden D, Suckling K, Davis C, Sizer N, Moore R, Thau D, Birch T, Potapov P, Turubanova S, Tyukavina A, de Souza N, Pintea L, Brito JC, Llewellyn Barnekow Lillesø JP, van Breugel P, Graudal L, Voge M, Al-Shammari KF, Saleem M (2017) An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience 67: 534–545. DOI:10.1093/biosci/bix014. Data-set available on-line
  • 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