[tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications?

Robert Stevenson robert.stevenson at umb.edu
Thu Mar 17 13:27:49 CET 2011


Tony,

Here are a couple of more schemes and ideas from the US to consider

USGS
http://landcover.usgs.gov/classes.php

and from NatureServe
http://www.natureserve.org/publications/usEcologicalsystems.jsp

marine
http://www.natureserve.org/publications/coastalmarine.jsp

A hierarchical scheme

http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/gla/reports/hierarchy.htm

Cheers
Rob Stevenson

On 3/16/11 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-----
>> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-
>> 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
>> Ph: 0362 325318 (Int: +61 362 325318)
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>> e-mail: Tony.Rees at csiro.au
>> Manager, OBIS Australia regional node, http://www.obis.org.au/
>> Biodiversity informatics research activities:
>> http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/biodiversity.htm
>> Personal info:
>> http://www.fishbase.org/collaborators/collaboratorsummary.cfm?id=1566
>>
>>
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