aa791cf1-ead5-4364-b0c3-4c54dc83c7e4 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T11:07:57.124422Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:3035 Ecosystem types of Europe 2012 - Marine habitats - version 3 revision 1, Feb. 2019 2018-12-31 creation 03.01 eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-marine_p_2012_v03_r01 DAT-146-en The data set aims to contribute to a better biological characterization of European marine ecosystems. As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS (EUropean Nature Information System) habitat presence at Level 3 for marine habitats including information on sea ice coverage (this corresponds to EUNIS level 2 for terrestrial habitats). The map combines spatially explicit data on marine bathymetry and sea-bed with non-spatially referenced habitat information of the EUNIS classification. The objective of the data set produced by EEA and its Topic Centre ETC/ULS is to improve the biological description of marine based ecosystem types and their spatial distribution. The work supports Target 2 Action 5 of the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, established to achieve the Aichi targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). It further addresses the MAES process (Mapping and Assessing of Ecosystems and their Services). The data set represents 2 classes of the MAES classification level 3, namely “Marine inlets and transitional waters” and “Marine”. The dataset comprises the following information: • Sea region (1 – Arctic, 2 – Atlantic, 3 – Baltic, 4 – Mediterranean, 5 – Black Sea) • Sea zone (1 – Littoral, 2 – Infralittoral, 3 – Circalittoral, 4 – Offshore circalittoral, 5 – Upper bathyal, 6 – Lower bathyal, 7 – Abyssal,8 - Coastal Lagoons, 9 - Coastal Lagoons) • Substrate (0 – undetermined substrate, 1 – rock and biogenic, 3 – coarse sediment, 4 – mixed sediment, 5 – sand, 6 – mud) • Sea ice coverage (0 – no sea ice presence, 1 – seasonal sea ice presence, 2 – perennial sea ice presence) European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link European Environment Agency public website pointOfContact European Environment Agency Environmental data centre for land use Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu custodian http://sdi.eea.europa.eu/public/catalogue-graphic-overview/aa791cf1-ead5-4364-b0c3-4c54dc83c7e4.png Habitats and biotopes Sea regions Land cover Oceanographic geographical features GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme EEA39 Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions ecosystem type habitat ecosystem environmental assessment land cover GEMET 2018-08-16 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet European Spatial scope 2019-05-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistSpatialScope-SpatialScope 2018 1.7.5 EEA Management Plan 2021-08-25 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.eea-mp Biodiversity Land use Seas and coasts EEA topics 2020-09-24 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.eea-topics /Métropole /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord /Métropole/Mers Celtiques /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale Sous-regions marines geonetwork.thesaurus.local.place.dcsmm.area /Etat du Milieu/Bathymétrie Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Etat du Milieu/Géologie Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Etat du Milieu/Habitats Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Etat du Milieu/Littoral Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Données dérivées/Produits composites Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee Convention sur la Diversité Biologique Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.reglementaire License CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA). no limitations to public access grid 100 biota environment oceans -43.9877 44.0108 24.9885 85.009 2012-01-01 2012-12-31 GeoTIFF 1 https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-marine_p_2012_v03_r01/ EEA:FOLDERPATH https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/aa791cf1-ead5-4364-b0c3-4c54dc83c7e4 WWW:URL Direct download https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Ecosystem/EcosystemTypeMap_v3_1_Marine/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Ecosystem/EcosystemTypeMap_v3_1_Marine/MapServer ESRI:REST Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification The process of creation of this dataset is as follows: A – Marine habitats Level 1 1. Create Sea mask, Sea Extent and Sea Region extended mask from CLC 2012 v18.5, Europe Seas 2010-2017 (vector 100k) and MSFD marine regions 2017 (vector 100k) B – New EUNIS-crosswalks 2. Apply “EUSEAMAP/new EUNIS Crosswalk” to derive EUNIS Level 3 from EUSEAMAP 2017 3. Apply “Geology/new EUNIS Crosswalk” to derive seabed geology from EMODNET C – Continental Shelf (for Mediterranean Region only) 4. Derive Mediterranean continental shelf and littoral mask from Continental marine margins, EMODNET bathymetry and Sea Regions extended mask D – Marine habitats level 3 separate processing per each of the 5 sea regions 5. Apply Sea Region bathymetry rules to define sea zone 6. Apply Biological zone rules to extract biological zone per each sea region: - Littoral - Infralittoral - Circalittoral - Offshore Circalittoral - Upper bathyal - Lower bathyal - Abyssal E – Sea Ice (for Arctic and Baltic only) 7. Apply minimum and maximum Sea Ice extent to derive sea ice coverage for Arctic and Baltic region F – Final Integration 8. Combine of all EUNIS maps (Cell statistics) 9. Euclidean Allocation for gap filling 10. Adjustment of final extent H - Transitional habitats 11. Deriving "Estuaries" and "Coastal Lagoons" from CLC Accounting, Riparian Zones and Natura 2000 More information can be found in the ETC/BD Technical Paper 11/2018 "Ecosystem Type Map v3.1-Terrestrial and marine ecosystems" provided with the dataset (Ecosystem_mapping_v3_1.pdf).