EFG T6.1 Permanent snow – previous maps

T6. Polar/alpine (cryogenic) biome

T6
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 T6.1 Permanent snow. Check the current maps here.

  • Web navigation (code: T6.1.web.alt, version v2.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: T6.1.IM.orig, version v1.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: T6.1.IM.mix, version v1.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: T6.1.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review
  • Web navigation (code: T6.1.web.mix, version v1.0) requires review

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • Antartica-LC-2000 (Hui et al. 2017).
  • EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 (Tuanmu et al. 2014).
  • GLIMS-2007 (GLIMS and NSIDC 2005-2018).
  • GLIMS-2007 (Raup et al 2007).
  • Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017).
dataset url
EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 https://earthenv.org//landcover
GLIMS-2007 http://glims.colorado.edu/glacierdata/ :: http://www.glims.org/download/
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:

T6.1.web.alt (v2.0): Mapbox tileset

T6.1.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

T6.1.web.orig (v1.0): Mapbox tileset

T6.1.web.mix (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
Antartica-LC-2000 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
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.

  • Hui, F., J. Kang, Y. Liu, X. Cheng, P. Gong, F. Wang, Z. Li, Y. Ye, and Z. Guo. 2017. AntarcticaLC2000: The new Antarctic land cover database for the year 2000. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences 60: 686-696. doi: 10.1007/s11430-016-0029-2.
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  • 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
  • Raup, B.H.; A. Racoviteanu; S.J.S. Khalsa; C. Helm; R. Armstrong; Y. Arnaud (2007) The GLIMS Geospatial Glacier Database: a New Tool for Studying Glacier Change Global and Planetary Change 56:101–110 DOI:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.07.018