FW: Habitat classifications?
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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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Mark Costello published something for marine habitats. Also IUCN put in GBIF vocabularies.
But Tony, you will duplicate a lot of work made at GSD level ...
BW Nicolas.
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday 17 March 2011 11:27 To: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications?
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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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Tony, we have encoded the IUCN habitat classification into a definition suitable for dwc archives & GBIF tools: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/iucn/habitat.xml
If you ever decide to go for some other, simpler classification please let me know. Id like to capture this as a "gbif" vocabulary.
Markus
On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:51, Bailly, Nicolas (WorldFish) wrote:
Mark Costello published something for marine habitats. Also IUCN put in GBIF vocabularies.
But Tony, you will duplicate a lot of work made at GSD level ...
BW Nicolas.
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday 17 March 2011 11:27 To: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications?
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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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Thanks, Markus.
I did spot one error in your version: Estuaries are coded 9, should be 9.10 as per http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habita... I think.
Otherwise looks suitable at first glance, I'll consider further over the next few days before making a decision.
Cheers - Tony ________________________________________ From: Markus Döring [m.doering@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 8:37 PM To: Bailly, Nicolas (WorldFish) Cc: Rees, Tony (CMAR, Hobart); tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications?
Tony, we have encoded the IUCN habitat classification into a definition suitable for dwc archives & GBIF tools: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/iucn/habitat.xml
If you ever decide to go for some other, simpler classification please let me know. Id like to capture this as a "gbif" vocabulary.
Markus
On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:51, Bailly, Nicolas (WorldFish) wrote:
Mark Costello published something for marine habitats. Also IUCN put in GBIF vocabularies.
But Tony, you will duplicate a lot of work made at GSD level ...
BW Nicolas.
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday 17 March 2011 11:27 To: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications?
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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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There are some in the Environment Ontology (EnvO) [1], but last time I checked it still had lots of gaps in that area. Nonetheless, it continues to be developed, and I suspect much welcome your suggestions for what should be added.
-hilmar
[1] http://www.environmentontology.org/
On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Tony.Rees@csiro.au Tony.Rees@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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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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/habita... http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habitats-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.htmBob Morris
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Tony.Rees@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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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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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From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Bob Morris Sent: Thursday 17 March 2011 13:27 To: Tony.Rees@csiro.au Cc: tdwg-content@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@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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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 tel:%2B61%20362%20325318 ) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000 tel:%2B61%20362%20325000 ) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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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@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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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Tony and Robert:
Sorry to take so long to chime in on resources for habitat classifications. Alexa McKerrow of the US Gap Analysis Program (GAP) suggests that the United States National Vegetation Classification (USNVC) website (http://usnvc.org) may also be useful, and also NatureServe's discussion of the IVC (International Vegetation Classification) at http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/classeco.htm and elsewhere.
Also FYI, GAP used the Ecological Systems classification as a basis for a map legend, but they are working towards the USNVC as the standard. It is hierarchical and the crosswalk standard for US federal programs.
Annie Simpson US Geological Survey Core Science Systems Mailstop 302 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192
From: Robert Stevenson robert.stevenson@umb.edu To: Tony.Rees@csiro.au Cc: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Date: 03/17/2011 08:30 AM Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] FW: Habitat classifications? Sent by: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org
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@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@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:22 PM To: Taxacom@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) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@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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