EFG T5.4 Cool temperate deserts – 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 T5.4 Cool temperate deserts. Check the current maps here.

  • Indicative Map (code: T5.4.IM.alt, version v2.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: T5.4.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review
  • Indicative Map (code: T5.4.IM.orig, version v1.0) discarded

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • KG-climate-2018 (Beck et al. 2018).
  • Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017).
dataset url
KG-climate-2018 http://www.gloh2o.org/koppen/ :: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6396959
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:

T5.4.web.orig (v1.0): GitHub repository

T5.4.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
KG-climate-2018 https://www.gloh2o.org/terms-of-use/ :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ :: CC BY 4.0
Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • 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
  • Beck, H., Zimmermann, N., McVicar, T. et al. (2018) Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution Sci Data 5, 180214 DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.214