Spatial analysis tools for biodiversity indicators on habitats and ecosystems

Expert meeting on multi-scales mapping and integrated analysis of landscape & green corridors

Ferran PáramoEuropean Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment

May 2005

Structure of the presentation

• Data sources

• Corilis Methodology

• GPB: Green Potential Background

• DLT: Dominant Landscape Types

DATA SOURCES

CORINE Land Cover

CORINE Land Cover

CORINE Land Cover

European Reference Grid 1x1 Km

Discontinuous urban fabric

Industrial or commercial units

Coniferous forest

Sclerophyllous vegetation

Water courses71

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K1000 E3666 N2073

Total surface: 100 Ha

CORILIS METHODOLOGY

Thresholds

Thresholds

CLC

CORILIS

EBGDLT

CRITERIA DEPENDENT LAYERS

Aggregation and/or

Dominance

STANDARD LAYERS

Green potential background map

Continuous urban fabricDiscontinuous urban fabric

Industrial or commercial unitsRoad and rail networks and associated land

Sport & leisure areasAirports

Mineral extraction sitesDump sites

Construction sitesGreen urban areas

Port and leisure facilitiesNon-irrigated arable land

Permanently irrigated landRice fieldsVineyards

Fruit trees and berry plantationsOlive groves

PasturesAnnual crops associated with permanent crops

Complex cultivation patternsLand principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation

Agro-forestry areasBroad-leaved forest

Coniferous forestMixed forest

Natural grasslandsMoors and heathland

Sclerophyllous vegetationTransitional woodland-shrub

Beaches, dunes, sandsBare rocks

Sparsely vegetated areasBurnt areas

Glaciers and perpetual snowInland marshes

Peat bogsSalt marshes

SalinesIntertidal flats

Water coursesWater bodies

Coastal lagoonsEstuaries

Sea and OceanNo data

1. Artificial surfaces

2a. Arable land & permanent crops

2b. Pastures & mixed farmland

3a. Forests and transitional woodland shrub

4. Wetlands

CLC Level 3 Aggregated Nomenclature

3b. Natural grassland, moors, heathland and sclerophylous vegetation

3c. Open spaces with little or no vegetation

5. Water bodies

Ecological BackgroundSmoothing radius: 5 kmGrouping of 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4 and 5 classes

Ecological BackgroundSmoothing radius: 10 kmGrouping of 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4 and 5 classes

Ecological BackgroundSmoothing radius: 20 kmGrouping of 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4 and 5 classes

Legend0 - 80 %

80 - 100 %

Ecological BackgroundSmoothing radius: 5 kmGrouping of 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4 and 5 classes

Legend0 - 80 %

80 - 100 %

Ecological BackgroundSmoothing radius: 10 kmGrouping of 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4 and 5 classes

Legend0 - 80 %

80 - 100 %

Ecological BackgroundSmoothing radius: 20 kmGrouping of 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4 and 5 classes

Dominant Landscape Types map

Continuous urban fabricDiscontinuous urban fabric

Industrial or commercial unitsRoad and rail networks and associated land

Sport & leisure areasAirports

Mineral extraction sitesDump sites

Construction sitesGreen urban areas

Port and leisure facilitiesNon-irrigated arable land

Permanently irrigated landRice fieldsVineyards

Fruit trees and berry plantationsOlive groves

PasturesAnnual crops associated with permanent crops

Complex cultivation patternsLand principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation

Agro-forestry areasBroad-leaved forest

Coniferous forestMixed forest

Natural grasslandsMoors and heathland

Sclerophyllous vegetationTransitional woodland-shrub

Beaches, dunes, sandsBare rocks

Sparsely vegetated areasBurnt areas

Glaciers and perpetual snowInland marshes

Peat bogsSalt marshes

SalinesIntertidal flats

Water coursesWater bodies

Coastal lagoonsEstuaries

Sea and OceanNo data

1. Artificial surfaces

2. Arable land & permanent crops

3. Pastures & mixed farmland

4. Forests and transitional woodland shrub

CLC Level 3 Aggregated Nomenclature

5. Shrubs & other semi-natural land

a) Threshold value = mean + sdev

b) Codominance criteria

A1 - ARTIFICIAL DOMINANCE

A2 - DISPERSED URBAN AREASB1 - BROAD PATTERN INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE

B2 - RURAL MOSAIC AND PASTURE LANDSCAPE

C1 - FORESTED LANDSCAPEC2 - OPEN SEMI-NATURAL OR NATURAL LANDSCAPE

D1 - COMPOSITE LANDSCAPE

Dominant Land Cover TypesSmoothing radius: 5 km

A1 - ARTIFICIAL DOMINANCE

A2 - DISPERSED URBAN AREASB1 - BROAD PATTERN INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE

B2 - RURAL MOSAIC AND PASTURE LANDSCAPE

C1 - FORESTED LANDSCAPEC2 - OPEN SEMI-NATURAL OR NATURAL LANDSCAPE

D1 - COMPOSITE LANDSCAPE

Dominant Land Cover TypesSmoothing radius: 10 km

A1 - ARTIFICIAL DOMINANCE

A2 - DISPERSED URBAN AREASB1 - BROAD PATTERN INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE

B2 - RURAL MOSAIC AND PASTURE LANDSCAPE

C1 - FORESTED LANDSCAPEC2 - OPEN SEMI-NATURAL OR NATURAL LANDSCAPE

D1 - COMPOSITE LANDSCAPE

Dominant Land Cover TypesSmoothing radius: 20 km

Legend

A1 - ARTIFICIAL DOMINANCE

A2 - DISPERSED URBAN AREAS

B1 - BROAD PATTERN INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE

B2 - RURAL MOSAIC AND PASTURE LANDSCAPE

C1 - FORESTED LANDSCAPE

C2 - OPEN SEMI-NATURAL OR NATURAL LANDSCAPE

D1 - COMPOSITE LANDSCAPE

Dominant Land Cover TypesSmoothing radius: 5 km

Legend

A1 - ARTIFICIAL DOMINANCE

A2 - DISPERSED URBAN AREAS

B1 - BROAD PATTERN INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE

B2 - RURAL MOSAIC AND PASTURE LANDSCAPE

C1 - FORESTED LANDSCAPE

C2 - OPEN SEMI-NATURAL OR NATURAL LANDSCAPE

D1 - COMPOSITE LANDSCAPE

Dominant Land Cover TypesSmoothing radius: 10 km

Legend

A1 - ARTIFICIAL DOMINANCE

A2 - DISPERSED URBAN AREAS

B1 - BROAD PATTERN INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE

B2 - RURAL MOSAIC AND PASTURE LANDSCAPE

C1 - FORESTED LANDSCAPE

C2 - OPEN SEMI-NATURAL OR NATURAL LANDSCAPE

D1 - COMPOSITE LANDSCAPE

Dominant Land Cover TypesSmoothing radius: 20 km

Dominant Land Cover TypesEuropean Thresholds

Dominant Land Cover TypesSea Catchment thresholds

Sea Catchments Elevation Breakdown

Analytical units

4

3

Adding the elevation breakdown

CLC

CORILIS

EBGDLT

CRITERIA DEPENDENT LAYERS

Aggregation and/or

Dominance

STANDARD LAYERS

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