1 Data information

This layer shows the extent of Seagrass collated by EMODnet Seabed Habitats in European waters. Seagrasses provide essential habitat and nursery areas for many marine fauna. There are approximately 72 seagrass species that belong to four major groups: Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae, Posidoniaceae and Cymodoceaceae. Zosterabeds and Cymodecea meadows are named on the OSPAR Threatened or Declining Habitats list. Posidonia beds are protected under Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive.This EOV layer for Seagrass is a work in progress. This file was produced during EMODnet Seabed Habitats Phase 3 (2017-2019). It is hoped there will be future iterations of the project which will allow for updates to the EOV layer.

1.1 Metadata

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1.2 Interactive map

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2 Geographical extent

2.1 Coordinates

## [1] "West-Longitude: 14.12"
## [1] "South-Latitude: 35.55"
## [1] "East-Longitude: 15.31"
## [1] "North-Latitude: 36.21"

2.2 Defined area

Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.

3 Essential Ocean Variables - Seagrass cover

3.1 Access data

The Web Feature Service (WFS) of the EMODnet Seabed habitats portal allows collecting the data:
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/emodnet_open/wfs?/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.0

Available labels:

##  [1] "FID"          "map_id"       "hab_origin"   "eunis_code"   "eunis_name"  
##  [6] "anxi_code"    "anxi_name"    "ospar_hab"    "habsubtype"   "determiner"  
## [11] "det_date"     "source"       "wkb_geometry"


Download data for the defined geographical extent:

Excel file Geographic information
csv geojson shapefile

3.2 Map

3.3 Table

The following table displays only a maximum of 10 columns and coordinates. To access the complete data, download the csv or json file.

map_id hab_origin eunis_code ospar_hab habsubtype determiner det_date source
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20 Malta Environment and Planning Authority, Malta
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20
EUSM16me Posidonia oceanica meadows A5.535 NA Posidonia oceanica MV, IFREMER 2016-09-20

3.4 Map with id