Advancing land-sea integration for ecologically meaningful coastal conservation and management: Dataset

Dataset from "Advancing land-sea integration for ecologically meaningful coastal conservation and management". This dataset is an ESRI shapefile of South Africa's ecologically determined coastal zone. It is available on South Africa's National Integrated Coastal Map Project page: http://bgis.sanbi.org/Projects/Detail/213 (click on the 2018 Coastal Map tab on the left for shapefiles). Any further iterations and refinements of this map will also be available from this Coastal Map Project page; this way, readers will always have access to the latest version of the map of coastal ecosystem types for South Africa.The map was developed by fine-scale mapping of a seashore zip (comprising a backshore and shore zone) that seamlessly joins the existing terrestrial National Vegetation Map (see: http://bgis.sanbi.org/Projects/Detail/60), National Estuaries Map (http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/2683), and National Marine Map (http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/2681).