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Terrestrial and Aquatic Biomes

ipbes.Rd

This resource is part of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and represents a division of the Earth's surface into several subcategories. The classification differentiates between biomes and anthromes. Biomes are differentiated between terrestrial and aquatic biomes.

Usage

get_ipbes_biomes()

Source

https://zenodo.org/records/3975694

Value

A function that returns a character vector of file paths.

Details

Terrestrial biomes include:

  • Tropical and subtropical dry and humid forests

  • Temperate and boreal forests and woodlands

  • Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub

  • Tundra and High Mountain habitats

  • Tropical and subtropical savannas and grasslands

  • Temperate Grasslands

  • Deserts and xeric shrublands

  • Wetlands – peatlands, mires, bogs

Aquatic biomes include:

  • Cryosphere

  • Aquaculture areas

  • Inland surface waters and water bodies/freshwater

  • Shelf ecosystems (neritic and intertidal/littoral zone)

  • Open ocean pelagic systems (euphotic zone)

References

IPBES (2019): Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. S. Díaz, J. Settele, E. S. Brondízio, H. T. Ngo, M. Guèze, J. Agard, A. Arneth, P. Balvanera, K. A. Brauman, S. H. M. Butchart, K. M. A. Chan, L. A. Garibaldi, K. Ichii, J. Liu, S. M. Subramanian, G. F. Midgley, P. Miloslavich, Z. Molnár, D. Obura, A. Pfaff, S. Polasky, A. Purvis, J. Razzaque, B. Reyers, R. Roy Chowdhury, Y. J. Shin, I. J. Visseren-Hamakers, K. J. Willis, and C. N. Zayas (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. 56 pages. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3553579