Spatial definition of the South East Africa Montane Archipelago (SEAMA)

Spatial definition of the South East Africa Montane Archipelago (SEAMA), an ecoregion described by Bayliss et al. (2024) as “a range of ancient granitic inselbergs in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique, climatically isolated by topography and trade winds, hosting humid evergreen forest, montane grassland and shrublands notable for their high levels of endemism across multiple taxa.”
The files are provided in GPKG and KML formats, using geographic (WGS1984) and projected (UTM Zone 37S, GPKG only) coordinate reference systems. Two extents are provided:
seama_coresites delineates each of 30 core sites across the ecoregionseama_convexhull is a convex hull defined by the farthest extents of the core sites, plus other inselbergs at the periphery with the requisite elevation and humidityPlease cite the following article when using these data in published works: Bayliss et al. (2024). A biogeographical appraisal of the threatened South East Africa Montane Archipelago ecoregion. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54671-z