ICES Metadata Catalogue
European and Caribbean Intertidal Habitats (2025)
This dataset provides a map of global intertidal habitats from European and Caribbean regions.
The map is produced from Murray et al. (2022) High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019 dataset, which provides the global distribution of intertidal habitats. We masked the Caribbean region based on Caribbean study area extent and European region based on EMODnet Bathymetry Coastline dataset, which was buffered by 30 kilometers in order to maintain the intertidal areas deeper inland.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-06-19
- Citation identifier
- 02FE508E-2171-4237-B5E7-D3FA3783A82B
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Finnish Environment Institute
Owner
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License v4.0
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 250000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 2025-06-19
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
GML
3.2.1
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view/wms? eu_carib_intertidal_2025
OGC:WFS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open/wfs? emodnet_open:eu_carib_intertidal_2025
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/IntertidalHabitats_Composite.zip European and Caribbean Intertidal Habitats Download
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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This map was created from Global Intertidal dataset provided by Murray et al (2022) High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019.
The dataset provides a global distribution of intertidal habitats between the 60 degree latitudes in north and south. We selected the areas from Caribbean and European study areas based on
existing datasets. In the Caribbean region we used the Caribbean study area extent to select the datasets from the original and in the Europe we used EMODnet Bathymetry Coastline dataset,
which was buffered by 30 kilometers in order to maintain the intertidal areas deeper inland. Datasets were then combined as one abd turned into shapefile.
The attribute table of the output layer were created as follows:
- GUI = Empty
- ORIG_HAB = Original habitat from the source dataset
- ORIG_CLASS = Original class from the source dataset
- HAB_TYPE = RAMSAR habitat classification
- HAB_CLASS = Source of the RAMSAR habitat classification, Ramsar Classification System for Wetland Type
- DET_NAME = Organisation which determined the dataset
- DET_DATE = Date when dataset was created
- TRAN_COM = Original classification and to which classification it was turned into
- T_RELATE = Original classification are equals to RAMSAR classification, marked "="
- SUM_CONF = Original sum_conf
- TEXT_CONF = "unknown"
Metadata
- File identifier
- 02FE508E-2171-4237-B5E7-D3FA3783A82B XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-10-13T08:22:02.375213Z
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Finnish Environment Institute
Point of contact
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