Distribution map of Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis)
These maps
were produced by combining numerous and heterogeneous data collected
from atlas monographs providing complete species distribution maps, from
national to regional atlases, occurrence geo-databases, scientific and
grey literature. The maps were created using ESRI shapefiles (*.shp,
*.shx, *.dbf, *.prj files) archived in the ZIP file. Species range is
mapped with polygon features (name suffix "plg"), which define
continuous areas of occupancy of the species, and with point features
(name suffix "pnt"), which identify more fragmented and isolated
populations. If synanthropic occurrences are reported outside the
species natural range, additional point and/or polygon shapefiles are
also present (suffix "syn").
Polygon borders delimiting species
ranges are generalized across the mainland and sea boundaries. This
offers the possibility to mask sea areas or to clip and extract the
terrestrial range parts using GIS data layers of the users' choice. An
additional version of polygon ranges are clipped with a coastline (name
suffix "clip"), which have been derived from Natural Earth dataset
"Admin 0 - Countries" 1:50M version 4.1.0
(https://www.naturalearthdata.com).
Please cite as: Caudullo,
G., Welk, E., San-Miguel-Ayanz, J., 2017. Chorological maps for the
main European woody species. Data in Brief 12, 662-666. DOI:
doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.05.007
Additional information and used references are on 'supplementary materials' document: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5091901
Chorological maps are part of the "European Atlas of Forest Tree Species" project: https://w3id.org/mtv/FISE-Comm/v01