Ecosystem types of Europe 2012 - Marine habitats - version 3 revision 1, Feb. 2019

The data set aims to contribute to a better biological characterization of European marine ecosystems. As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS (EUropean Nature Information System) habitat presence at Level 3 for marine habitats including information on sea ice coverage (this corresponds to EUNIS level 2 for terrestrial habitats).

The map combines spatially explicit data on marine bathymetry and sea-bed with non-spatially referenced habitat information of the EUNIS classification. The objective of the data set produced by EEA and its Topic Centre ETC/ULS is to improve the biological description of marine based ecosystem types and their spatial distribution.

The work supports Target 2 Action 5 of the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, established to achieve the Aichi targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). It further addresses the MAES process (Mapping and Assessing of Ecosystems and their Services). The data set represents 2 classes of the MAES classification level 3, namely “Marine inlets and transitional waters” and “Marine”.

The dataset comprises the following information:

• Sea region (1 – Arctic, 2 – Atlantic, 3 – Baltic, 4 – Mediterranean, 5 – Black Sea)

• Sea zone (1 – Littoral, 2 – Infralittoral, 3 – Circalittoral, 4 – Offshore circalittoral, 5 – Upper bathyal, 6 – Lower bathyal, 7 – Abyssal,8 - Coastal Lagoons, 9 - Coastal Lagoons)

• Substrate (0 – undetermined substrate, 1 – rock and biogenic, 3 – coarse sediment, 4 – mixed sediment, 5 – sand, 6 – mud)

• Sea ice coverage (0 – no sea ice presence, 1 – seasonal sea ice presence, 2 – perennial sea ice presence)

Date (Creation): 2018-12-31

Edition: 03.01

Citation identifier: eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-marine_p_2012_v03_r01

Citation identifier: DAT-146-en

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	Point of contact
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes
Sea regions
Land cover
Oceanographic geographical features

Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

EEA39

GEMET

ecosystem type
habitat
ecosystem
environmental assessment
land cover

Spatial scope

European

EEA Management Plan

2018 1.7.5

EEA topics

Biodiversity
Land use
Seas and coasts

Sous-regions marines

/Métropole
/Métropole/Manche mer du Nord
/Métropole/Mers Celtiques
/Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne
/Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale

Thématiques - SIMM

/Etat du Milieu/Bathymétrie

Thématiques - SIMM

/Etat du Milieu/Géologie

Thématiques - SIMM

/Etat du Milieu/Habitats

Thématiques - SIMM

/Etat du Milieu/Littoral

Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS

/Données dérivées/Produits composites

Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM

Convention sur la Diversité Biologique

Use limitation: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 100 m

Language: English

Topic category

Biota
Environment
Oceans

Begin date: 2012-01-01

End date: 2012-12-31

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

Name	Version
GeoTIFF	1

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FILEPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-marine_p_2012_v03_r01/eea_r_3035_100_m_etm-marine_2012_v3-1_r00.tif
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/aa791cf1-ead5-4364-b0c3-4c54dc83c7e4	Direct download
OGC:WMS	https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Ecosystem/EcosystemTypeMap_v3_1_Marine/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
ESRI:REST	https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Ecosystem/EcosystemTypeMap_v3_1_Marine/MapServer

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The process of creation of this dataset is as follows:

A – Marine habitats Level 1

1. Create Sea mask, Sea Extent and Sea Region extended mask from CLC 2012 v18.5, Europe Seas 2010-2017 (vector 100k) and MSFD marine regions 2017 (vector 100k)

B – New EUNIS-crosswalks

2. Apply “EUSEAMAP/new EUNIS Crosswalk” to derive EUNIS Level 3 from EUSEAMAP 2017

3. Apply “Geology/new EUNIS Crosswalk” to derive seabed geology from EMODNET

C – Continental Shelf (for Mediterranean Region only)

4. Derive Mediterranean continental shelf and littoral mask from Continental marine margins, EMODNET bathymetry and Sea Regions extended mask

D – Marine habitats level 3 separate processing per each of the 5 sea regions

5. Apply Sea Region bathymetry rules to define sea zone

6. Apply Biological zone rules to extract biological zone per each sea region:

- Littoral

- Infralittoral

- Circalittoral

- Offshore Circalittoral

- Upper bathyal

- Lower bathyal

- Abyssal

E – Sea Ice (for Arctic and Baltic only)

7. Apply minimum and maximum Sea Ice extent to derive sea ice coverage for Arctic and Baltic region

F – Final Integration

8. Combine of all EUNIS maps (Cell statistics)

9. Euclidean Allocation for gap filling

10. Adjustment of final extent

H - Transitional habitats

11. Deriving "Estuaries" and "Coastal Lagoons" from CLC Accounting, Riparian Zones and Natura 2000

More information can be found in the ETC/BD Technical Paper 11/2018 "Ecosystem Type Map v3.1-Terrestrial and marine ecosystems" provided with the dataset (Ecosystem_mapping_v3_1.pdf).