ceb50ee9-9eee-426f-9004-46d910e25bb6 EUNIS heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types 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 corresponds to the EUNIS heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data dataset. These habitat types correspond to non-coastal land which is dry or only seasonally inundated (with the water table at or above ground level for less than half of the year) with greater than 30% vegetation cover. Tundra is characterised by the presence of permafrost. Heathland and scrub are defined as vegetation dominated by shrubs or dwarf shrubs of species that typically do not exceed 5 m maximum height. Includes shrub orchards, vineyards, hedges (which may have occasional tall trees). Also includes stands of climatically-limited dwarf trees (krummholz) &lt; 3 m high, such as occur in extreme alpine conditions. Includes Salix and Frangula carrs. Excludes coppice (T47) and Alnus and Populus swamp forest (T15). The verified heathland, scrub and tundra 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. The dataset is provided both in Geodatabase and Geopackage formats. 2021 1.1.4 EEA Management Plan Biodiversity: state of habitats and species EEA topics habitat heathland natural area terrestrial ecosystem tundra GEMET Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 European Spatial scope Andorra EEA38 (from 2020) Georgia United Kingdom Ukraine Belarus Monaco Moldova San Marino Russian Federation (European part) 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 heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021 https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/datastore/public?path=/eea_v_3035_10_mio_eunis-hab-s_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/1f8814c7-eb8b-4674-9955-1ebf485cfc57?language=all Vegetation Plot Layer https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/EUNIS/Hethland_Distribution_point/MapServer 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 heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021. https://doi.org/10.2909/1f8814c7-eb8b-4674-9955-1ebf485cfc57