[tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications?

Thu Mar 17 06:34:23 CET 2011

Agree with Bob.

I suspect somewhere that ecosystems and habitats should be given fuzzy
definitions, instead of trying to establish a non-overlapping partition.

Or at least, the allocation of species to habitats should be fuzzy. But
what a work ...

BW

Nicolas.

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[mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Bob Morris
Sent: Thursday 17 March 2011 13:27
To: Tony.Rees at csiro.au
Cc: tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications?

In my experience, more than in any other subdiscipline of the life
sciences, environmental and/or habitat classifications proliferate--and
perhaps are difficult to reconcile with one another--for several
reasons. However all those reasons seem to be related to the context of
the authors, including their primary use cases (e.g. decision support
vs. restoration vs. protection vs. environmental impact, ....) and
sometimes the organizing community's primary subdiscipline (e.g. ecology
vs genomics vs taxonomy vs economic uses vs....). 

So in my opinion, besides granularity, it is perhaps wise to consider
the point of view of the authors of a classification to see whether it
coincides with your purposes. 

Some more classifications and references:

http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/ha
bitats-classification-scheme-ver3

<http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/h
abitats-classification-scheme-ver3>
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/wetlands/classwet/referenc.htm

<http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/wetlands/classwet/referenc.htm>
http://www.ecosystems.ws/ecosystem_classification_systems.htm

<http://www.ecosystems.ws/ecosystem_classification_systems.htm> Bob
Morris

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:26 PM, <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> wrote:

Apologies for cross-posting - below is a message I just sent to the
TAXACOM list, but if there are TDWG persons not on TAXACOM who have not
seen it and may have useful information, I'd be happy to receive it.

Regards - Tony

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees at csiro.au
> Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM
> To: Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [ExternalEmail] [Taxacom] Habitat classifications?
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am interested in extending the habitat classification presently used
in
> my IRMNG genera and species database from the present "very basic"
> (marine/nonmarine/both) to something a bit more detailed - maybe
marine,
> freshwater, terrestrial with up to perhaps a dozen or so subcategories
of
> each, as appropriate (e.g. end up with a little nested hierarchy of
maybe
> 30-50 terms total).
>
> So, I am looking for suggestions of such classifications as may
already be
> in use in order to either pick one up more or less unchanged, or
develop
> something with the best features of several. For example I am familiar
> with the following off the top of my head:
>
> http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/SyntaxHabitat.htm - 23 terms, coverage a bit
> uneven
>
> http://mave.tweakdsl.nl/tn/syntax.html - scroll down to the section
headed
> "% HABITAT"   -- 56 terms, looks quite useable.
>
> Something like the EUNIS classification e.g. as accessible via
>
> http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats-code-browser.jsp   possibly gets
too
> detailed too quickly at this time for my needs, but you never know
what
> may end up being of value.
>
> If list persons can point me at any other resources worth looking at,
or
> comment on details of the above, I would be very appreciative. It also
> occurs to me that some people may have been through this exercise
> previously, e.g. for "species / structured descriptive data" purposes,
so
> any pointers to the results of those deliberations would also be
useful.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tony Rees
> Manager, Divisional Data Centre,
> CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research,
> GPO Box 1538,
> Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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> Biodiversity informatics research activities:
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> http://www.fishbase.org/collaborators/collaboratorsummary.cfm?id=1566
>
>
>
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