EFG T1.1 Trop lowland rainforests – current maps

T1. Tropical-subtropical forests biome

Published

June 7, 2024

Modified

July 24, 2024

This page provides information about the valid indicative distribution map for the ecosystem functional group T1.1 Tropical/Subtropical lowland rainforests. For older or alternative maps, see here.

Methods

Here is the methods summary for Map code and version: T1.1.web.mix v2.0.

Major and minor occurrences were initially identified using consensus land-cover maps (Tuanmu et al. 2014) and then cropped to selected terrestrial ecoregions (Dinerstein et al. 2017; DAWE 2012) at 30 arc seconds spatial resolution. Ecoregions were selected if: i) their descriptions mentioned features consistent with those identified in the profile of the Ecosystem Functional Group; and ii) if their location was consistent with the ecological drivers described in the profile.

Datasets

EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 (Tuanmu et al. 2014):

Source of global landcover product. Resolution: ca. 1km2, static. Accuracy evaluation: accuracy weighted consensus.

EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 (Tuanmu et al. 2014):

Source of global landcover product. Resolution: ca. 1km2, static. Accuracy evaluation: accuracy weighted consensus.

IBRA-v7 (DAWE 2012):

Source of biogeographical range. Resolution: variable (polygons), static. Accuracy evaluation: qualitative (experts judgement).

IBRA-v7 (DAWE 2012):

Source of biogeographical range. Resolution: variable (polygons), static. Accuracy evaluation: qualitative (experts judgement).

Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017):

Source of biogeographical range. Resolution: variable (polygons), static. Accuracy evaluation: qualitative (experts judgement).

Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017):

Source of biogeographical range. Resolution: variable (polygons), static. Accuracy evaluation: qualitative (experts judgement).

dataset url
EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 https://earthenv.org//landcover
IBRA-v7 https://www.environment.gov.au/fed/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B4A2321F0-DD57-454E-BE34-6FD4BDE64703%7D
Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 https://ecoregions2017.appspot.com/ :: https://geospatial.tnc.org/datasets/7b7fb9d945544d41b3e7a91494c42930_0

Processing

Processing steps used in this map are: Selection :: Clipping :: Reclassification :: Thresholds.

Map evaluation

This map is considered to be a Fine quality map based on the following characteristics:

Concept alignment is Indirect,general.

Ground observations are NA.

The accuracy evaluation Quantitative accuracy assessment,documented,quantitative.

How to use the data

Available files

Following maps are considered current and valid indicative distribution maps for this ecosystem functional group. Web navigation maps are optimised for use in webapps, but they have similar methods and differ only in details of format and processing.

  • Web navigation (code: T1.1.web.mix, version v2.0)
  • Indicative Map (code: T1.1.IM.mix, version v2.0)

You can download geospatial data for this map from the following repositories:

  • Web navigation (code: T1.1.web.mix, version v2.0) DOI
  • Indicative Map (code: T1.1.IM.mix, version v2.0)

Alternative links for accessing the maps in different formats:

T1.1.web.mix (v2.0): Google Cloud bucket :: Zenodo repository (bundle of maps) :: Zenodo repository (EFG map) :: Mapbox tileset :: Earth Engine assets

T1.1.IM.mix (v2.0): Google Cloud bucket

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.

Reproducible code

Code to reproduce the maps from the source datasets is not available at the moment.

License information

Indicative maps have been released with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Datasets used to create this map might have some restriction for commercial use, see details below.

dataset license_info
EarthEnv-LandCover-v1.0 https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013469 :: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
IBRA-v7 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

References

References used in this version of the maps.

  • Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (2012) Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia v. 7 (IBRA) ESRI shapefile
  • 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