This repository contains code and ecoregion lookup files that are useful for developing reclassifications of the terrestrial ecoregions generated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The primary purpose of this reclassification is to provide fewer categories of biomes so that future analyses are more tractable. It was developed by Dan McGlinn and Cody Hincliff.
To visiually inspect the reclassification scheme see the output maps here:
https://github.com/dmcglinn/wwf_biome/blob/master/biome_maps/wwf_biome_maps.pdf?raw=true
Please feel free to add suggestions as an issue.
The WWF created a terrestrial ecoregion classificaiton which can be downloaded here: http://assets.worldwildlife.org/publications/15/files/original/official_teow.zip?1349272619
Metadata associated with the WWF ecoregion classficiation can be found here: http://worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world
Additional helpful metadata is located at this link: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/11/11.951/ecoplan/data/ecoregions/wwf_terr_ecos.htm
Dan McGlinn - [email protected] Cody Hinchliff - [email protected]