ac97918a-170d-40b2-ac94-60be8d30acb9 EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation 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 2021-11-15 English This metadata describes the EUNIS inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation probability maps 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. These habitat types are non-coastal habitats on substrates with no or little development of soil, mostly with less than 30% vegetation cover which are dry or only seasonally wet (with the water table at or above ground level for less than half of the year). Habitats which may have a high vegetation cover include crevices of rocks, screes or cliffs and habitats formed by carpets of moss. Includes subterranean non-marine caves and passages including underground waters and disused underground mines and habitats characterised by the presence of permanent snow and surface ice other than marine ice bodies. The verified inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation 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 habitat natural area terrestrial ecosystem GEMET Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 Monaco Moldova EEA38 (from 2020) Russian Federation (European part) Andorra Georgia Ukraine San Marino United Kingdom Belarus 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 Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation probability maps - version 1, Nov. 2021 https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_eunis-hab-probability-u_p_1940-2020_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/a6c48c2d-114f-406e-ba99-c9085a5f5aee?language=all Europe -29.00 58.00 82.00 28.00 1940-01-01 2017-12-31 European Environment Agency Point of contact sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu/ European Environment Agency (2021).EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation probability maps - version 1, Nov. 2021. https://doi.org/10.2909/a6c48c2d-114f-406e-ba99-c9085a5f5aee