A dataset with complete geographic distributions of eight zonal monospecific forest types in mainland Spain

Autor: Rut Sánchez de Dios, Gabriel del Barrio, Jaime Martínez Valderrama, Alberto Ruiz, María E. Sanjuán, Helios Sainz
Přispěvatelé: Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef'
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Data in Brief
E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM
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RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante (UA)
Data in Brief, Vol 34, Iss, Pp 106681-(2021)
E-Prints Complutense: Archivo Institucional de la UCM
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
ISSN: 2352-3409
Popis: Distribution area and surface are both parameters of paramount importance for habitat management, monitoring and conservation. Here we present the distribution of eight zonal forest types of mainland Spain that are consistent with the Habitat Types (HT) listed in Annex I of the European Union Habitats Directive 92/43 EC. Their dominant species and HT codes are Fagus sylvatica (9120, 9130 and 9150), Quercus robur and Q. pyrenaica (9230), Q. suber (9330), Pinus uncinata (9430), P. nigra ssp. salzmannii (9530) and P. pinea (subset of 9540). These distributions are based on tesserae from the 1:50,000 Spanish Forest Map and are the result of sorting assisted by supplementary databases. The distributions are presented as vector coverages, and provide three information levels of increasing detail: geographic distribution, basic forest type and structural forest patch. Two R scripts are also included with the dataset. They implement a segmented regression approach to investigate forest fragmentation on these or other patch-like data. Tragsatec (Grupo Tragsa) funded this research through the following projects: Climatic Regionalization and Ecosystem Fragmentation (Contract No. 39.916) and Methods to Estimate Rates of Change of Occupied Surface of Forest and Shrubland Habitat Types within their Respective Distribution Ranges (Contract No. 38.454).
Databáze: OpenAIRE