Bio-geographical Regions of Finland

The Bio-geographical regions are internally homogeneous biogeographical regions of Finland. The number of regions is 21. The regions were spatially defined by an expert committee in 1930 as collections of municipalities. Consequently, the province boundaries follow the delineation of of municipalities in the 1930's including some enclaves, exclaves, and narrow stripes as the province boundaries have not been changed or updated since then excluding the cession of territory after the Second World War. In the "Extended" data set regions have names and abbreviations in Finnish, Swedish, and Latin. No other attribute data is available.

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Date (Publication)
2008-12-30
Date (Creation)
2016-12-21
Identifier
FI_FMNH_BR_20170119
owner
  Finnish Museum of Natural History
Keywords

  • Bioprovince
Keywords

  • Eliömaakunta

https://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept?cp=br&langcode=en&ns=5

  • Biomaantieteelliset alueet

  • Biogeografiska regioner
Keywords

  • Luonnontieteellinen maakunta

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Bio-geographical regions
Use limitation

No conditions apply
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Other restrictions
Other constraints

no limitation
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
20000
Metadata language
Finnish
Topic category
  • Biota
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Reference system identifier
3067 / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3067
Distribution format
  • Bio-geographicalRegions GML application schema (Finland / FMNH) ( 3.0rc2, GML, version 3.2.1 )

    Specification

    D2.8.III.17 Data Specification on Bio-geographical Regions – Draft Guidelines

OnLine resource
http://maps.luomus.fi/geoserver/www/inspire/index.html
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2008-12-04
Explanation

See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement

[1] The regions were spatially defined by an expert committee in the 1930's as collections of municipalities. Consequently, the province boundaries follow the delineation of of municipalities in the 1930's including some enclaves, exclaves, and narrow stripes as the province boundaries have not been changed or updated since then excluding the cession of territory after the Second World War. [2] The digital version described here has been prepared by the FMNH. The positional accuracy of the data is estimated to be about 20 meters. Topological consistency ("edgematching") has been confirmed by separating region boundaries (n = 85). [3] The Bio-geographical regions of Finland do not correspond to the European regions. Parts of the two most northern Finnish regions belong to European Alpine zone whereas the rest of Finland belong to the boreal zone. [4] References (in Finnish): - https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_luonnontieteelliset_maakunnat - http://www.luomus.fi/fi/eliomaakunnat

File identifier
FI_FMNH_BR_20170119 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2018-09-04T13:16:57
Metadata standard name

ISO19115
Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006
pointOfContact
  Finnish Museum of Natural History (FMNH)
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Bio-geographical regions

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