Terrestrial Ecosystems of Ruritania

The Ruritania ecosystem typology includes 3 ecosystem types across 3 biomes (Table 2.1). The ecosystem typology is consistent with the IUCN global ecosystem typology (Keith et al. 2020) to support crosswalks and comparisons with Red Lists of ecosystems in other countries and regions. The Ruritania ecosystem typology has a hierarchical structure, where each ecosystem type is assigned to a realm, biome and functional group (ecotype). Realm refers to one of the four component media in the biosphere (Figure 2.1), biome is the segment of the biosphere united by major functional traits and macro-environmental features (Figure 2.2), and functional group is a group of related ecosystems within a biome (Figure 2.3). The distribution of Ruritania’s ecosystem types is shown in Figure 2.4, and map data is made publicly available (reference?).

Table 2.1: List of the terrestrial ecosystems of Ruritania developed in this project.

ECO_CODE	id	COD	ECO_NAME	Glob_Typol
REALM: Terrestre (T)
Bioma de bosques tropicales y subtropicales (T1)
Bosques lluviosos tropicales y subtropicales de tierras bajas (T1.1)
T1.1.1	00000000000000000000	D01	Null Island Tropical Forest	T1.1_NullIsland_forest_D01
Bioma polar/alpino (criogenico) (T6)
Pastizales y herbazales de altas montanas tropicales (T6.5)
T6.5.1	00000000000000000001	D03	Null Island Alpine Grassland	T6.5_NullIsland_alpine_D03
REALM: Marina (M)
Bioma de plataforma marina (M1)
Praderas marinas (M1.1)
M1.1.1	00000000000000000002	D02	Null Island Marine Shelf	M1.1_NullIsland_marine_shelf_D02

Figure 2.1: The distribution of the realms of Ruritania.

Figure 2.2: The distribution of the biomes of Ruritania.

Figure 2.3: The distribution of the biomes of Ruritania.

(Heat map of the distribution of natural ecosystem types not implemented yet.)

Figure 2.4

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Keith, David A, José R Ferrer-Paris, Emily Nicholson, and Richard Kingsford. 2020. IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology 2.0: Descriptive Profiles for Biomes and Ecosystem Functional Groups. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.13.en.