b5e8446a-9ae2-4e51-b063-62d084fb1fbc EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation, predicted distribution of habitat suitability 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 littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes) 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. Littoral biogenic habitats (commonly known as salt marshes) are formed by animals such as worms and mussels or plants. The verified saltmarsh 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. 2021 1.1.4 EEA Management Plan habitat natural area terrestrial ecosystem modelling GEMET Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 EEA38 (from 2020) United Kingdom Continents, countries, sea regions of the world European Spatial scope 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, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021 https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_km_eunis-hab-u_p_1940-2017_v01_r00 EUNIS documentation for habitat classification https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/f5946d76-bf09-4261-8f2e-6218210ae3af?path=%2FEUNIS%20habitat%20classification%20revision%20documentation EEA geospatial data catalogue https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/96b7f7df-3f79-4001-b489-1d918c813a62?language=all Suitability Layer https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/EUNIS/Mosaic_Sparsely/ImageServer Europe -31.28 44.81 71.16 27.64 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, predicted distribution of habitat suitability - version 1, Nov. 2021. https://doi.org/10.2909/96b7f7df-3f79-4001-b489-1d918c813a62