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Title: World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions, 2008

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2008
  • Coverage: 2001

Publishers

  • ESRI

Summary

World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions is a polygon theme representing global terrestrial ecoregions. Ecoregions are defined as relatively large areas of land or water in the world containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. This data set contains all terrestrial ecoregions, which include those of the Global 200. Global 200 ecoregions are a collection of the Earth's most outstanding and diverse terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats where the Earth's biological wealth is most distinctive and rich, where its loss will be most severely felt, and we must protect if we are to preserve the web of life. For more information, contact http://www.worldwildlife.org. is a polygon theme representing

Subjects

  • World
  • Earth
  • Biota
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-179.999989, 179.999993, 83.623131, -85.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-179.999989, 179.999993, 83.623131, -85.0)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

World Wildlife Fund, ESRI. World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions, 2008. ESRI. Polygon data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-esri_2008_world_wwf_terr

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English