Historical land-cover data for 1901 in southeastern Sweden

Citation

Sara A. O. Cousins, Louise Tränk (2016) Historical land-cover data for 1901 in southeastern Sweden. Dataset version 1. Bolin Centre Database. https://doi.org/10.17043/cousins-2016-land-cover-1

References

Cousins, S.A.O., A.G. Auffret, J. Lindgren, L. Tränk. 2015. Regional-scale land-cover change during the 20th century and its consequences for biodiversity. Ambio, 44, 17, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0585-9

Data description

Historical GIS vector layer (Häradskartan) from 1901 over a 1652 km² area. The file contains the following land-cover categories. Arable field; Dwelling; Forest Islet; Meadow; Open water; Pasture; Wet meadow; Wetland, coniferous; Wetland, deciduous; Wetland, open. See Table 1 in the article for descriptions. Coordinate system SWEREF99 TM (ESPG: 3006).

Contact information

Email address
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Phone number

+46 8 16 4767

Postal address

Sara Cousins
Department of Physical Geography
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

Metadata

GCMD science keywords

Earth science > Human dimensions > Environmental governance/management > Land management > Land use/land cover classification

GCMD location

Continent > Europe > Northern Europe > Scandinavia > Sweden

Status

Completed

Dataset language

English

Project

This work was funded by the cross-disciplinary project Ekoklim at Stockholm University to SAOC.

Publisher

Bolin Centre Database

Dataset version

1

Use limitations

None

DOI

10.17043/cousins-2016-land-cover-1

Published

2016-11-10 14:18:25

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