Table 1,
cont’d.
Scale Data Source, date, update frequency Availability
Global Coral Reef
Distribution
1:200,000
6
Compilation of maps, some updates
through 2000
UNEP-WCMC
7
(Spalding et al., 2001)
Global Mangrove
Distribution
Compilation of maps, 1997
UNEP-WCMC (Spalding et al., 1997)
Global Seagrass
Distribution
Compilation of maps, 2002
UNEP-WCMC (Green and Short 2003)
Global Wetland
Distribution
Compilation of maps, 1998
UNEP-WCMC
World Database on
Protected Areas
Boundary polygons for about half of the
677 coral reef marine protected areas
(MPAs) in the United Nations List of
Protected Areas (Green et al. in review),
center points, areas, and World
Conservation Union (IUCN) management
attributes; 1993, 1997, 2003.
World Database on Protected Areas Consortium, UNEP-WCMC
(WCMC and IUCN 1998). Text data but not polygons available
online, see also Kelleher et al. (1993)
Terrestrial Ecoregions of
the World
New classification of smaller terrestrial
ecoregion units within biogeographic
regions and terrestrial biomes; 2000.
World Wildlife Fund (Olson et al. 2001). Available for
download at http://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions
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