Description: Global Distribution of Coral Reefs
Date created: 2010
Version: 4.0
Date of version release: June 2018
Distributed under UNEP-WCMC's General Data License (excluding WDPA)
For more information, please contact marine@unep-wcmc.org.
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Requested citation:
UNEP-WCMC, WorldFish Centre, WRI, TNC (2010). Global distribution of warm-water coral reefs, compiled from multiple sources including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 4.0. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001). Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. URL: http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1
Citations for the separate entities:
IMaRS-USF (Institute for Marine Remote Sensing-University of South Florida) (2005). Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Unvalidated maps. These maps are unendorsed by IRD, but were further interpreted by UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
IMaRS-USF, IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement) (2005). Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Validated maps. Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Spalding MD, Ravilious C, Green EP (2001). World Atlas of Coral Reefs. Berkeley (California, USA): The University of California Press. 436 pp.
Description: Global Distribution of Mangroves USGS
Date created: 2011
Version: 1.3
Date of version release: June 2015
Distributed under UNEP-WCMC's General Data License (excluding WDPA)
For more information, please contact marine@unep-wcmc.org.
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Requested citation:
Giri C, Ochieng E, Tieszen LL, Zhu Z, Singh A, Loveland T, Masek J, Duke N (2011). Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data (version 1.3, updated by UNEP-WCMC). Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 154-159. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00584.x . Data URL: http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/4
Description: Global Distribution of Seagrasses
Date created: 2005
Version: 3.0
Date of version release: February 2015
Distributed under UNEP-WCMC's General Data License (excluding WDPA)
For more information, please contact marine@unep-wcmc.org.
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Requested citation:
UNEP-WCMC, Short FT (2005). Global Distribution of Seagrasses (version 3). Third update to the data layer used in Green and Short (2003), superseding version 2. Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. URL: http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/7
Other cited reference(s):
Green EP, Short FT (2003). World atlas of seagrasses. Prepared by UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Berkeley (California, USA): University of California. 332 pp.
Description: KWSMTS v0.1 is a global seamount database derived from the vertical gravity gradient (VGG) grid v16.1. The detection method is discussed in our paper:
Kim, S.-S., and P. Wessel (2011), New global seamount census from the altimetry-derived gravity data, Geophys. J. Int., 186, 615-631
Description: Enhanced seamount location database for the western and central
Pacific Ocean: Screening and cross-checking of 20 existing datasets.
Allain et al. 2008.