{"id":715392,"date":"2020-02-04T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=715392"},"modified":"2020-08-27T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T23:00:21","slug":"world-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/world-ecosystems","title":{"rendered":"A New Map of World Terrestrial Ecosystems"},"author":7841,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[26701,43821,43811,25871],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-715392","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-climate","tag-conservation","tag-ecosystems","tag-land-cover","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"short_description":"Mapping global ecosystems with unprecedented detail provides a more usable solution for ecological land management and conservation. ","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Long before coming to Esri, I worked on studying, protecting, and restoring the Florida Everglades. Most of us appreciate how unique this ecosystem is and why it is so deserving of conservation. But if someone asked, how would you describe the Everglades? Coastal wetlands, swamp, subtropical wilderness, a river of grass? These characterizations are either too generic or subjective for many applications. If we wanted to identify other areas around the world for conservation that have similar ecosystem structure, how might that be done?<\/p>\n

An important first step in that process has been undertaken by a team of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, The Nature Conservancy, and Esri. The result is a map of World Terrestrial Ecosystems<\/a>, broken down into 431 classes based on the unique combinations that arise from a massive union of global data layers on temperature, precipitation, landforms, and vegetation\/land cover. The 250-m per pixel resolution also provides a level of detail necessary for practical land management. First reported in Global Ecology and Conservation <\/em><\/a>, the map of World Terrestrial Ecosystems is now available in Living Atlas of the World as an analytical layer<\/a>, an ArcGIS Pro Package<\/a> download, or as a standalone GeoTIF<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"storymap","title":"","description":"","static":false,"storymap_url":"https:\/\/arcgis.com\/apps\/Minimalist\/index.html?appid=5787ee10f5484947b065a733dcc277db<\/a>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

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Conserving Similar Ecosystems<\/h2>\n

If we take the Everglades as an example, we can see that it is composed of<\/p>\n