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Title: "World Wildlife Fund Marine Ecoregions" (2006)
 
Description: World Wildlife Fund Marine Ecoregions represents global marine ecoregions. Ecoregions are defined as relatively large areas of land or water in the world containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. This data set contains the marine ecoregions of the Global 200. Global 200 ecoregions are a collection of the Earth's most outstanding and diverse terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats where the Earth's biological wealth is most distinctive and rich, where its loss will be most severely felt, and we must protect if we are to preserve the web of life. For more information, contact http://www.worldwildlife.org. World Wildlife Fund Marine Ecoregions provides a global view of marine ecoregions defined by the World Wildlife Fund Conservation Science Program 2001, and can be used for geographic display.
 
Keywords and Themes: Biodiversity, Biota, Ecoregions, Ecosystems, Evolution, Global 200, Global Rarity, Habitat, Oceans, Species Endemism,
 
Filename Prefix: wwf_mar.sdc
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Mapped Drive Folder: /esri2006/data_maps/world/data/
Total size of data files: 0.02 MB
 
Data Type: ESRI SDC data set
Feature Type: Polygon
Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984
Datum: D_WGS_1984Map Units: Decimal degrees

Spatial Extent: World
Source Scale: 1:50,000,000
Scale Note: Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:50,000,000.

Created by: varies
Released by: ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
Content Date: varies
Published Date: 20061001

Collection Name: ESRI® Data & Maps 2006
Physical Location: Reference GIS Data Cabinet
Call Number: G70.212 .E77 2051
Acquired Date: 20061122
Distribution Restrictions: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/esridm/2006/help/rdstrght.htm

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Record ID: 2715_edm06

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