Ecoregions of Florida

Maps of ecoregions have been produced to provide resource managers with a logical regional strategy for locating representative reference sites, designing sampling schemes, analyzing and evaluating data, and assessing regional patterns of attainable terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem quality. This ecoregions and subregions map is designed to serve as a spatial framework for environmental resource management. The most immediate uses by the State of Florida are for developing regional biological criteria and water quality standards, and for setting management goals for nonpoint-source pollution. This Florida ecoregion map depicts revisions of ecoregions, compiled originally at a relatively small scale (US EPA 1995, Omernik 1987), as well as subregions of those ecoregions. Compilation of this map, performed at the larger 1:250,000 scale, was part of a collaborative project between the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) - Corvallis, OR., and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.本数据集生成的生态区（ecoregion）地图，旨在为资源管理者提供一套逻辑清晰的区域化策略，用于定位典型参考点位、设计采样方案、分析与评估数据，以及研判可实现的陆地与水生生态系统质量的区域分布模式。这套生态区与亚区地图旨在作为环境资源管理的空间框架。佛罗里达州对此地图最直接的应用场景包括制定区域生物基准与水质标准，以及为非点源污染（nonpoint-source pollution）设定管理目标。本佛罗里达生态区地图涵盖了最初以较小比例尺编制的生态区（原始编制依据为美国环境保护署1995年、奥默尼克1987年的成果）的修订版本，以及这些生态区的亚区。本地图以1:250,000的大比例尺编制，是美国环境保护署（United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA）下属俄勒冈州科瓦利斯市国家健康与环境效应研究实验室（NHEERL）与佛罗里达州环境保护部合作项目的组成部分。