Millennium Ecosystem Assessment at millenniumassessment.org

January 12, 2015

DESCRIPTION

This zip file contains the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment data retrieved from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) project at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) with the help of scientists who worked on the project. On January 15, 2012, the NBII ceased operations and the data became unavailable. Because of resource contraints, minimal support, data process, and documentation are provided. 
Please refer to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reports for documentation.  The Millennium Assessment reports are available to be downloaded online at: 

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis (Island Press, Washington, DC). http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends (Island Press, Washington, DC). http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Condition.html

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Scenarios (Island Press, Washington, DC). http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Scenarios.html

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Policy Responses (Island Press, Washington, DC). http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Responses.html

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Multiscale Assessments (Island Press, Washington, DC). http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Multiscale.html

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2006) Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems (Island Press, Washington, DC)
http://millenniumassessment.org/en/Bridging.html

Metadata for this data set are available on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment website:
http://millenniumassessment.org/en/GraphicResources.html


ACCESSING THE DATA

The data may be downloaded from the internet at http://millenniumassessment.org/en/GraphicResources.html

DATA FORMAT INDEX REFERENCE

MA Ecosystems (c2000)
Coastal areas: Shape file 
Cultivated areas: Raster grids
Cultivated area classification: dBase spreadsheet
Dryland areas: Shape file and Raster grids
Dryland area classification: dBase spreadsheet
Forest and woodland: Raster grids
Forest and woodland classification: dBase spreadsheet
Inland water: Raster grids
Inland water classification: dBase spreadsheet
Island: Shape file and Raster grids
Island classification: dBase spreadsheet
Island: Shape file
Mountain: Raster grids
Mountain classification: dBase spreadsheet
Mountain elevation: Raster grids
Mountain elevation classification: dBase spreadsheet
Polar: Raster grids
Polar classification: dBase spreadsheet
Urban: Raster grids
Reporting Units For Condition: ArcInfo Coverage
Reporting Units For Scenarios: Shape file
Sub-global locations, Areas and center points: Shape file

Environmental: 
MA Climate and Land Cover (1901-2000)
Climate, 0.5 degree temperature and precipitation grids: Raster grids
Climate, 10 minute temperature and precipitation data: Raster grids
Global Land Cover: Raster grids
Global land cover legend/classification: dBase spreadsheet
International protected areas, points and polygons: Shape files
National protected areas, points and polygons: Shape files

MA Rapid Land Cover Change (1950-2015)
Agriculture - Cropland: Raster grids 
Deforestation - Forest: Raster grids
Desertification: Raster grids
Fire: Raster grids
Urbanization - Cities: Shape file

Socioeconomic:
MA Population (1990-2002)
GPW: Raster grids
GRUMP: Raster grids
Hunger: Raster grids
Infant Mortality: Raster grids

Biodiversity:
MA Biodiversity (1950-2001)
Amphibian: Shape file
Infectious diseases: Shape file
Drylands: cattles, pasture and shoats: Raster grids
Drylands: Classification of pastures: dBase spreadsheet
Islands: Fishing pressure index and Sewage pollution index: dBase spreadsheet
Islands: Tourism: Excel spreadsheet
Loss of natural land cover - biomes and realms: Excel spreadsheet
Polar Population: Excel spreadsheets
Species distribution models: Net primary productivity: Raster grids
WWF Terrestrial ecoregions and realms: shape file

Scenarios: 
MA Scenarios (1995-2100)
Acidification / nitrogen deposition scenarios: ASCII grids
Cereal production / consumption scenarios: Excel spreadsheet
Water availability scenarios: Shape file
Income scenarios: Word table
Meat production / consumption scenarios: Excel spreadsheet
Population scenarios: Excel spreadsheets
Water stress scenarios: Shape file


The data files are compressed zip files . Downloaded files need to be uncompressed in a single folder using either WinZip, WinRar or similar Windows file compression utility applications. Users should expect an increase in the size of downloaded data after decompression. 


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