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Terrestrial Ecoregions GIS Database Request

The digital ecoregion database is available for download as an ArcView Shapefile. It has been compressed using WinZip (www.winzip.com) and is 50 MB in size.

This database is available for use for valid scientific, conservation, and educational purposes. We ask that you credit the Terrestrial Ecoregions data as follows:

Olson, D. M, E. Dinerstein, E.D. Wikramanayake, N.D. Burgess, G.V.N. Powell, E.C. Underwood, J.A. D'amico, I. Itoua, H.E. Strand, J.C. Morrison, C.J. Loucks, T.F. Allnutt, T.H. Ricketts, Y. Kura, J.F. Lamoreux, W.W.Wettengel, P. Hedao, & K.R. Kassem. 2001. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth. BioScience 51:933-938

Any modification of the original map by users to ecoregion boundaries, units, names, or realm and biome classes must be noted.

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