The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (GET) is the first internationally agreed framework for describing and mapping the world's ecosystems. This is a Look-up Table generated from the Global Ecosystem Typology vocabulary at https://w3id.org/iucn-get/IUCNEcosystemTypology.
Format
A data frame with 9 columns:
- efg
Character vector with urls of the permanent ID of the concept in the vocabulary
- efg_id
Character vector of short code for the ecosystem functional groups (level 3 in the classification)
- efg_name
Character vector of the name for the ecosystem functional groups (level 3 in the classification)
- biome_id
Character vector of short code for the functional biomes (level 2 in the classification)
- biome_name
Character vector of the name for the functional biomes (level 2 in the classification)
- realm_id
Character vector of short code for the realms (level 1 in the classification)
- realm_name
Character vector of the name for the realms (level 1 in the classification)
- version
Character vector with version name
- version_date
Character vector with date version was uploaded or updated
Source
Keith, D. A., J. R. Ferrer-Paris et al. (2022) A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems Nature 610, 513–518. DOI:10.1038/s41586-022-05318-4.
See also
Other data:
TASVEG_LUT,
TASVEG_mini,
TASVEG_mini_expert_wide,
TASVEG_xref