FAO Global Ecological Zones
Parameter
FAO Global Ecological Zones
Represented classes
Tropical rain forest TAr
Tropical moist deciduous forest TAwa
Tropical dry forest TAwb
Tropical shrubland TBSh
Tropical desert TBWh
Tropical mountain systems TM
Subtropical humid forest
Subtropical dry forest SCs
Subtropical steppe SBSh
Subtropical desert SBWh
Subtropical mountain systems SM
Temperate oceanic forest TeDo
Temperate continental forest TeDc
Temperate steppe TeBSk
Temperate desert TeBWk
Temperate mountain systems TeM
Boreal coniferous forest Ba
Boreal tundra woodland Bb
Boreal mountain systems BM
Polar P
Description
The Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) presents global and regional forest data by global ecological zone (GEZ). The GEZ spatial dataset used by FAO has developed over the years from covering only the tropical areas (1990) to the globe (2000). Due to the developments in remote sensing and the compiling of many spatial products relating to climate and land cover between 2000 and 2010, an update to the map was commissioned and resulted in the available GEZ 2010 product .
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Source data
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Description
The purpose of creating the FAO Forest Ecological Zones and associated map is to enable the presentation of some of the FAO forest statistics and maps to be shown by a set of classes that have some ecological meaning that can be more generally understood as broad forest types (e.g. tropical rain forests, boreal forests etc.).
Spatial resolution
Global coverage
Pixel size:
10 km x 10 km
Temporal resolution
GEZ 2010 product