There are four ways of restricting to a particular habitat choosing a habitat. You can select none, one or more of these and collections meeting all the selected criteria will be shown.
– The first selection box uses keywords from the collector's description of the locality and habitat as recorded on the collecting sheet or label.
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alpine
arctic
base-poor
base-rich
bog or boggy
boreal
burnt ground
cadaveric
coniferous woodland
deciduous woodland
dune
farmland
fenland
grassland
heathland
maquis
mixed woodland
pine barrens
plantation
pondside, streamside, lakeside, riverside
roadside, pathside, campsite, car park (non urban)
sandy ground
shrubland
slagheap
subalpine
subtropical
tropical
tropical or subtropical highland
tundra
urban
with Sphagnum or deeply-mossy
woodland
– By using the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s definition of the habitat.
This habitat is estimated by mapping habitat and substrate collection information, as recorded by the collector, to an IUCN habitat using a standardised set of rules. Please see
this page for a full list of IUCN habitats.
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1.1 Forest – Boreal
1.4 Forest – Temperate
1.5 Forest – Subtropical/tropical dry
1.9 Forest – Subtropical/tropical moist montane
2.1 Savanna - Dry
3.3 Shrubland – Boreal
3.4 Shrubland –Temperate
3.7 Shrubland – Subtropical/tropical high altitude
3.8 Shrubland – Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation
4.1 Grassland – Tundra
4.2 Grassland – Subarctic
4.4 Grassland – Temperate
4.7 Grassland – Subtropical/tropical high altitude
5.10 Wetlands (inland) – Tundra wetlands (inc. pools and temporary waters from snowmelt)
5.1 Wetlands (inland) – Permanent rivers/streams/creeks (includes waterfalls)
5.11 Wetlands (inland) – Alpine wetlands (inc. temporary waters from snowmelt)
5.3 Wetlands (inland) – Shrub dominated wetlands
5.4 Wetlands (inland) – Bogs, marshes, swamps, fens, peatlands
13.3 Coastal Sand Dunes
14.1 Arable Land
14.2 Pastureland
14.3 Plantations
14.5 Urban Areas
17.1 Quarry
– By using the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF)
division of the world into terrestrial ecoregions .
The ecoregion is estimated by mapping from the GPS coordinates of the collection using data made available by
Dinerstein et al (2017) . Use
this webtool to explore the ecoregions visually or see a full list of current ecoregions
on Wikipedia . Be aware that this division of the world into ecoregions is relatively coarse and does not take into account microhabitats,
so for example the alpine regions in Europe would be mapped into an ecoregion of temperate conifer forests, although the area above the treeline is clearly a rather different habitat.
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Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra
Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
Allegheny Highlands forests
Alps conifer and mixed forests
Appalachian Piedmont forests
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
Appenine deciduous montane forests
Arctic coastal tundra
Arizona Mountains forests
Atlantic coastal pine barrens
Australian Alps montane grasslands
Balkan mixed forests
Baltic mixed forests
Beringia upland tundra
Blue Mountains forests
Borneo montane rain forests
British Columbia coastal conifer forests
Brooks-British Range tundra
Caledon conifer forests
California Central Valley grasslands
California coastal sage and chaparral
California interior chaparral and woodlands
Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
Canadian High Arctic tundra
Canadian Low Arctic tundra
Canadian Middle Arctic Tundra
Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
Cantabrian mixed forests
Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands
Carpathian montane forests
Caucasus mixed forests
Celtic broadleaf forests
Central American dry forests
Central Anatolian steppe and woodlands
Central Canadian Shield forests
Central European mixed forests
Central Mexican matorral
Central Pacific Northwest coastal forests
Central Tallgrass prairie
Central US forest-grasslands transition
Central-Southern Cascades Forests
Chihuahuan desert
Chukchi Peninsula tundra
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Colorado Rockies forests
Cook Inlet taiga
Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests
Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland
Cyprus Mediterranean forests
Davis Highlands tundra
Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
East Central Texas forests
East Siberian taiga
Eastern Australian temperate forests
Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition
Eastern Canadian Shield taiga
Eastern Canadian forests
Eastern Cascades forests
Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
Eastern Mediterranean conifer-broadleaf forests
English Lowlands beech forests
European Atlantic mixed forests
Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests
Faroe Islands boreal grasslands
Fiordland temperate forests
Flinders-Lofty montane woodlands
Fraser Plateau and Basin conifer forests
Fynbos shrubland
Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
Hispaniolan pine forests
Hokkaido deciduous forests
Honshu alpine conifer forests
Iberian conifer forests
Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra
Illyrian deciduous forests
Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga
Interior Yukon-Alaska alpine tundra
Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
Jamaican moist forests
Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
Kalaallit Nunaat Arctic steppe
Kalaallit Nunaat High Arctic tundra
Kamchatka taiga
Kamchatka tundra
Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
Kazakh steppe
Klamath-Siskiyou forests
Kola Peninsula tundra
Low Monte
Luang Prabang montane rain forests
Madeira evergreen forests
Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
Mediterranean woodlands and forests
Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas
Mid-Canada Boreal Plains forests
Mississippi lowland forests
Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee
Muskwa-Slave Lake taiga
Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests
Naracoorte woodlands
Nelson Coast temperate forests
New Caledonia rain forests
New England-Acadian forests
New Zealand North Island temperate forests
New Zealand South Island montane grasslands
New Zealand South Island temperate forests
Nihonkai evergreen forests
Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
North Atlantic moist mixed forests
North Cascades conifer forests
Northeast Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
Northeast Siberian taiga
Northeast Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
Northeast US Coastal forests
Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
Northern California coastal forests
Northern Canadian Shield taiga
Northern Cordillera forests
Northern Indochina subtropical forests
Northern Pacific Alaskan coastal forests
Northern Rockies conifer forests
Northern Shortgrass prairie
Northland temperate kauri forests
Northwest Iberian montane forests
Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra
Northwest Territories taiga
Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests
Okanogan dry forests
Ordos Plateau steppe
Ozark Highlands mixed forests
Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
Pannonian mixed forests
Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests
Peninsular Malaysian rain forests
Pindus Mountains mixed forests
Piney Woods
Po Basin mixed forests
Pontic steppe
Puget lowland forests
Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
Queen Charlotte Islands conifer forests
Queensland tropical rain forests
Richmond temperate forests
Rodope montane mixed forests
Russian Arctic desert
Samoan tropical moist forests
Sarmatic mixed forests
Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands
Scandinavian and Russian taiga
Scandinavian coastal conifer forests
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sierra Nevada forests
South Apennine mixed montane forests
South Central Rockies forests
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
Southeast Australia temperate forests
Southeast Australia temperate savanna
Southeast Tibet shrublands and meadows
Southeast US conifer savannas
Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
Southern Andean Yungas
Southern Great Lakes forests
Southern Hudson Bay taiga
Southwest Australia woodlands
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Taiheiyo evergreen forests
Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra
Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
Tasmanian Central Highland forests
Tasmanian temperate forests
Tasmanian temperate rain forests
Tehuacán Valley matorral
Torngat Mountain tundra
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests
Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Unknown region
Upper Midwest US forest-savanna transition
Valdivian temperate forests
Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
Watson Highlands taiga
West Siberian taiga
Western European broadleaf forests
Western Great Lakes forests
Western Gulf coastal grasslands
Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
Willamette Valley oak savanna
Wrangel Island Arctic desert
Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
Yamal-Gydan tundra
Zagros Mountains forest steppe
– Finally, by using WWF biomes rather than ecoregion. Biomes are a more coarse-grained division than ecoregion. Again GPS data is used to determine the biome for the collection and so it is important to be aware that this is a rather coarse mapping into biomes.
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Boreal Forests/Taiga
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Temperate Conifer Forests
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tundra
Unknown biome