EUSeaMap 2021. A European broad-scale seabed habitat map
- Year of publication
- 2021
- Involved from NIVA
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Trine Bekkby
- Contributors
- Mickaël Vasquez, Harriet Allen, Eleonora Manca, Lewis Castle, Helen Lillis, Sabrina Agnesi, Zyad Al Hamdani, Aldo Annunziatellis, Natalie Askew, Trine Bekkby, Luis Bentes, Valentina Doncheva, Vivi Drakopoulou, Graeme Duncan, Jorge Gonçalves, Roberto Inghilesi, Leena Laamanen, Valia Loukaidi, Simon Martin, Fergal McGrath, Giulia Mo, Pedro Monteiro, Mihaela Muresan, Christina Nikilova, Eimear O'Keeffe, Roland Pesch, Jordan Pinder, Jacques Populus, Amy Ridgeway, Dimitris Sakellariou, Adrian Teaca, Fernando Tempera, Valentina Todorova, Leonardo Tunesi, Elina Virtanen
Summary
EUSeaMap 2021 is the fifth iteration of EUSeaMap. All versions have been produced as part of the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project, which is one of several thematic lots in EMODnet. The project has brought together a European consortium of specialists in benthic ecology and seabed habitat mapping. The partners first collaborated in EMODnet phase 1 (2009-2012) to deliver a prototype predictive seabed habitat map in four trial basins (Greater North Sea, Celtic Seas, Baltic, Western Mediterranean). This predictive model was named EUSeaMap (Cameron and Askew, 2011). In EMODnet Phase 2 (2012-2016), the consortium extended EUSeaMap coverage to all European regions (Populus et al, 2017). In phase 3 (2017-2021), a first version (2019) extended the spatial coverage further North in order to include the Barents Sea, developed better environmental data were incorporated, and dramatically improved the spatial detail. The new version, developed in the period 2019-2021 and named 2021, is substantially evolved from the previous version as it accounts for new seabed substrate data published by EMODnet Geology in 2021, including in Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway and Spain, 2) is published in new classifications, including the new version of the marine section of EUNIS, named EUNIS 2019 and 3) addresses some issues identified in EUSeaMap 2019.