Title

TM_Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW)

License

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Abstract

A biogeographic classification of the world's coastal and continental shelf waters following a nested hierarchy of realms, provinces and ecoregions.
see http://www.marineregions.org/sources.php#meow

Pubblication Date

May 4, 2017, 7:24 a.m.

Type

Vector Data

Keywords

Biogeography , Ecoregion , features , marine , meow_ecos , realm

Category

Conservation

Information about

Regions

Global

Responsible

leonardo.arias

More info

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Restrictions

Any modification of the original map to ecoregion boundaries, units, names, or realm and province classes must be noted and explained alongside the original citation. (For citation, see Data Set Credit.) The MEOW Working Group (authors Spalding et al.) shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. Any sale, distribution, loan, or offering for use of these digital data, in whole or in part, is prohibited without the approval of the MEOW Working Group. The use of these data to produce other GIS products and services with the intent to sell for a profit is prohibited without the written consent of the MEOW Working Group. All parties receiving these data must be informed of these restrictions. The MEOW Working Group and its members' respective organizations shall be acknowledged as data contributors to any reports or other products derived from these data.

Purpose

This classification represents a new work, derived by a team representing various conservation NGOs and acadamics. It is partly derived from existing classi…

Language

English

Supplemental Information

USERS PLEASE NOTE - shapefile does NOT accurately represent outer MEOW boundaries:
As specified in the original publications, the boundaries in this sha…

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