Regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. The freshwater ecoregion map serves as a complement to the global terrestrial and marine ecoregion maps and differs from them in that freshwater species (primarily fish) and freshwater processes drove the map delineation. Encompasses 426 units, whose boundaries generally - though not always - correspond with those of watersheds. Within individual ecoregions there will be turnover of species, such as when moving up or down a river system, but taken as a whole an ecoregion will typically have a distinct evolutionary history and/or ecological processes. Ecoregions are delineated based on the best available information, but data describing freshwater species and ecological processes are characterized by marked gaps and variation in quality, and improved information in the future may warrant map revisions.
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Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
Additional Info
- Project: Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
- Dataset Title: Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
- Data Series: Conservation Science Data Sets
- Orginator: Nature Conservancy; World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
- Institution Type: independent
- Author: see originator
- Distributor: Freshwater Ecoregions of he World (FEOW)
- Reports: yes
- Data Type: GIS
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: 2008
- Source Date: 2013
- Version: 1st Edition
- Access Constraints: open download - no login
- Use Constraints: none
- Completion Status: complete
- Maintenance: as needed
- Maintenance Frequency: as needed
- Metadata Available: yes
- Metadata Contact: WWF, Freshwater Team, Washington, DC, USA
- Spatial Extent: International
- Traditional Knowledge: no
- Wildlife: no
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: ecoregion; aquatic; water; freshwater; river; lake; zone; boundary;
- Data Category: vector
- Format: shp
- Feature Type: polygon
- Feature Count: 449
- Dataset Descriptive Name: GIS_hs_snapped
- File Name: feow_hydrosheds.shp
- Scale: unknown
- Projection: undefined
- Downloadable: yes
- Downloadable Format: zip
- Other Digital Formats: kml
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