78944c91-a9cd-4ebf-a50a-6f7b16507f77 EUNIS coastal habitat types probability maps European Environment Agency Custodian sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu/ SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Chiara Bortoluzzi Data Manager chiara.bortoluzzi@sib.swiss https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6589-6635 2023-12-01 English This metadata describes the EUNIS coastal habitat types distribution datasets created from habitat probability mapping. Probability maps are refined versions of habitat suitability maps. Suitability maps model areas where the environment is suitable for a certain habitat type. Probability maps include information on existing land cover and narrow the modelled suitable distribution to areas where the habitat type is probable to occur. Coastal habitats are those above spring high tide limit (or above mean water level in non-tidal waters) occupying coastal features and characterised by their proximity to the sea, including coastal dunes and wooded coastal dunes, beaches and cliffs. Includes free-draining supralittoral habitats adjacent to marine habitats which are normally only very rarely subject to any type of salt water, in as much as they may be inhabited predominantly by terrestrial species, strandlines characterised by terrestrial invertebrates and moist and wet coastal dune slacks and dune-slack pools. Supralittoral sands and wracks may be found also in marine habitats (M). Excludes supralittoral rock pools and habitats, the splash zone immediately above the the mean water line, as well the spray zone and zone subject to sporadic inundation with salt water in as much as it may be inhabited predominantly by marine species, which are included in marine (M). The verified coastal habitat samples used are derived from the Braun-Blanquet database (<a href="http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/vegsci/braun_blanquet.php?lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/vegsci/braun_blanquet.php?lang=en</a>) which is a centralised database of vegetation plots and comprises copies of national and regional databases using a unified taxonomic reference database. The geographic extent of the distribution data are all European countries except Armenia and Azerbaijan. Biodiversity: state of habitats and species EEA topics coastal ecosystem habitat modelling natural area GEMET Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 European Spatial scope EEA38 (from 2020) United Kingdom Continents, countries, sea regions of the world No limitations to public access. Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ EUNIS coastal habitat types probability maps - version 1, Dec. 2021 https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_eunis-hab-propability-n_p_1940-2017_v01_r00 EUNIS documentation for habitat classification https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/f5946d76-bf09-4261-8f2e-6218210ae3af EEA geospatial data catalogue https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/99498d2c-7350-4655-b914-92c5b9e016c5?language=all Europe -32.84 71.56 72.16 29.61 1940-01-01 2017-12-31 European Environment Agency Point of contact sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu/ European Environment Agency (2023).EUNIS coastal habitat types probability maps - version 1, Dec. 2021. https://doi.org/10.2909/99498d2c-7350-4655-b914-92c5b9e016c5