EFG T6.3 Polar tundra – 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 T6.3 Polar tundra. Check the current maps here.

  • Indicative Map (code: T6.3.IM.alt, version v2.1) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: T6.3.web.alt, version v2.0) replaced
  • Indicative Map (code: T6.3.IM.orig, version v1.0) discarded
  • Indicative Map (code: T6.3.IM.mix, version v1.0) discarded
  • Web navigation (code: T6.3.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review
  • Web navigation (code: T6.3.web.mix, version v1.0) requires review

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 (Tuanmu et al. 2014).
  • glUV1.0 (Beckmann et al. 2014).
  • KG-climate-2018 (Beck et al. 2018).
  • Nature-Map-2020 (Jung et al. 2020).
  • Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017).
dataset url
EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 https://earthenv.org//landcover
KG-climate-2018 http://www.gloh2o.org/koppen/ :: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6396959
Nature-Map-2020 https://explorer.naturemap.earth/map :: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666245 :: https://github.com/Martin-Jung/Habitatmapping :: https://uploads.users.earthengine.app/view/habitat-types-map
Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 https://ecoregions2017.appspot.com/ :: https://geospatial.tnc.org/datasets/7b7fb9d945544d41b3e7a91494c42930_0
glUV1.0 https://www.ufz.de/gluv/

Available files

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

T6.3.web.alt (v2.0): Mapbox tileset

T6.3.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)

T6.3.web.orig (v1.0): Mapbox tileset

T6.3.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
EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013469 :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
KG-climate-2018 https://www.gloh2o.org/terms-of-use/ :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ :: CC BY 4.0
Nature-Map-2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • Beckmann M., Václavík T., Manceur A.M., Šprtová L., von Wehrden H., Welk E., Cord A.F. (2014) glUV: A global UV-B radiation dataset for macroecological studies Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 372–383. DOI:10.1111/2041-210X.12168
  • Martin Jung, Prabhat Raj Dahal, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Paul F. Donald, Xavier De Lamo, Myroslava Lesiv, … Piero Visconti. (2020). A global map of terrestrial habitat types [Data set]. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3673586
  • 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
  • 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