EUNIS vegetated man-made habitat types, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021

This metadata corresponds to the EUNIS Vegetated man-made habitats types, distribution based on vegetation plot data dataset.

Anthropogenic habitats which are dominated by vegetation and usually subject to regular management but also arising from recent abandonment of previously cultivated ground. This includes areas cultivated for crops, orchards and grasslands such as lawns and sports fields which are a result of reseeding and often heavily fertilised together with planted and managed forests and other anthropogenic habitats with trees such as avenues. Non vegetated anthropogenic habitats are Constructed, industrial and other artificial habitats (Y).

The verified vegetated man-made habitat samples used are derived from the Braun-Blanquet database (http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/vegsci/braun_blanquet.php?lang=en) which is a centralised database of vegetation plots and comprises copies of national and regional databases using a unified taxonomic reference database. The geographic extent of the distribution data are all European countries except Armenia and Azerbaijan. The dataset is provided both in Geodatabase and Geopackage formats.