c5281177-c9e6-4226-acef-c28c90c7a0c3 Sextant Ifremer ZI Pointe du Diable Plouzane Brittany 29280 France sextant@ifremer.fr https://sextant.ifremer.fr/eng pointOfContact 2025-05-16T00:03:40.043461Z ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT 1.0 EPSG:4326 World Atlas of Mangroves (version 3.1). A collaborative project of ITTO, ISME, FAO, UNEP-WCMC, UNESCO-MAB, UNU-INWEH and TNC. London (UK): Earthscan, London. 319 pp 2021-03-01 revision 2010-01-01 publication c5281177-c9e6-4226-acef-c28c90c7a0c3 This dataset shows the global distribution of mangroves, and was produced as joint initiatives of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems (ISME), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (UNESCO-MAB), United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Major funding was provided by ITTO through a Japanese Government project grant; the project was implemented by ISME. This dataset was used in the World Atlas of Mangroves (Spalding et al. 2010); some statistics in the publication are not derived from the dataset (see annex 3, p. 288 for details of the data used). UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre oceanplus@unep-wcmc.org distributor Spalding M author Kainuma M author Collins L author UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre publisher https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c5281177-c9e6-4226-acef-c28c90c7a0c3/attachments/260_mangrove.png /Biological Environment/Habitats Thèmes Sextant 2022-01-25 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.sextant-theme Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2018-07-27 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme Data Mission Atlantic - Resources 2021-12-08 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-resources Canary Current system Atlantic Ocean Mission Atlantic - Case Studies 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-case-studies /Environment/Habitat Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters 2022-01-25 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-bodc-parameters Spatial data products Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP) 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-data-type WP1 Atlantic Ocean IEA Mission Atlantic - Work Package 2021-08-10 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-work-package UNEP-WCMC General Data License For commercial use, please contact business-support@unep-wcmc.org and isme@mangrove.or.jp. Please also refer to the license file (“WCMC-011-AtlasMangrove2010-License.pdf”) distributed with the dataset. Please send any modification and revision of the dataset to the ISME Secretariat (Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, Senbaru 1, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0129 Japan; isme@mangrove.or.jp). vector utf8 oceans -180.00 180.00 -90.00 90.00 1999-01-01 2003-01-01 ESRI Shapefile 1.0 https://doi.org/10.34892/w2ew-m835 DOI World Atlas of Mangroves https://datadownload-production.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/WCMC011_AtlasMangrove2010_v3_1.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD Downlaod data https://www.routledge.com/World-Atlas-of-Mangroves/Spalding-Kainuma-Collins/p/book/9781844076574 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--publication-URL World Atlas of Mangroves By Mark Spalding, Mami Kainuma, Lorna Collins The dataset was created mostly from satellite imagery processed at UNEP-WCMC or FAO. For a number of countries, existing (WCMC-012 (1997)) or newly available (vector) data were incorporated. The methodology is detailed in chapter 3 of Spalding et al. (2010), which is distributed with the dataset ("WCMC-011-AtlasMangrove2010-Methodology.pdf")