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Identifier	majorEcosystemType
Short name	majorEcosystemType
Dataset	CDDA
Table	Designated area
Reference URL	http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/datasets/latest/CDDA/tables/DesignatedArea/elements/majorEcosystemType
Name	Major ecosystem type
Definition	The major ecosystem type can be: marine, marine and terrestrial (incl. freshwater) or terrestrial (incl. freshwater).
Methodology for obtaining data	This value is required. It is for the countries to determine the appropriate major ecosystem type for each site. In the countries, you know which coastline dataset is the most appropriate in case a spatial analysis is used to provide the major ecosystem type information. If a spatial analysis is used, we recommend that you introduce a threshold to reduce the number of marineAndTerrestrial artifact sites. A spatial analysis using a coastline, likely digitised at a different scale than the designated areas, will inevitably introduce some misleading results. It is recommended to consider sites with less than 1% terrestrial ecosystem as fully marine sites and sites with less than 1% marine ecosystem as fully terrestrial. If your country has a complicated coastline, you may even consider to investigate manually all sites below a 5% threshold to determine the appropriate major ecosystem type. A coastal designated area located on the terrestrial side of the coastline should be considered fully terrestrial. Please note that when the Major ecosystem type = "marine" or Major ecosystem type = "terrestrial", no value is expected in the Percentage of marine area field.
Datatype	reference
Public or Internal	Public attribute
Responsible
Reporting obligation
Vocabulary	All valid concepts from the vocabulary Major Ecosystem type in the cdda set (Code = Notation) Only valid concepts accepted before the release of the data element are used from the vocabulary Major Ecosystem type in the cdda set

Vocabulary

Code	Label	Definition
marine	marine	Marine
marineAndTerrestrial	marine and terrestrial	Marine and terrestrial (incl. freshwater...
terrestrial	terrestrial	Terrestrial (incl. freshwater)