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Freshwater Ecoregions

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, (FEOW) provides a new global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. Covering virtually all freshwater habitats on Earth, this first-ever ecoregion map, together with associated species data, is a useful tool for underpinning global and regional conservation planning efforts, particularly to identify outstanding and imperiled freshwater systems; for serving as a logical framework for large-scale conservation strategies; and for providing a global-scale knowledge base for increasing freshwater biogeographic literacy. This version of the FEOW, modified by The Nature Conservancy, includes additional tabular data describing Major Habitat Types (MHTs, similar to terrestrial biomes). These MHTs were developed by TNC and WWF, Inc., but have not undergone rigorous review and are as of yet unpublished. All ecoregions are nested within the eleven MHTs' boundaries.

Data Resources (3)

 
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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Environmental and biodiversity protection
  • SDG14 Life Below Water
Language
  • English
Use limitations You can show these map services in your own application if you like; the only condition being that The Nature Conservancy is listed as the author, you are using the data for non-commercial purposes, and you don't alter them in any way.
Dataset reference date April 23, 2021
Temporal extent's start date January 23, 2012
Temporal extent's end date January 23, 2012
GeoNames
  • Global
West bounding coordinates -180.0
East bounding coordinates 180.0
South bounding coordinates -90.0
North bounding coordinates 83.6235961914062
Spatial Reference System WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) (CRS:84)
Lineage TNC Maps (https://maps.tnc.org/gis_data.html)
Responsible party Organization: The Nature Conservancy Person: Dave Smetana Email: dsmetana@tnc.org City: Arlington State or Province: Virginia Postal code: 22203 Country: US
License Other (Attribution)
Copyright Yes
Keywords ecoregion,freshwater
Date uploaded April 23, 2021, 19:59 (UTC)
Date modified May 5, 2021, 05:04 (UTC)