8. Biotope

In this step, you will provide the spatial layers for each habitat.

The polygon dataset must contain one or more shapefiles that delineate the biotopes used in the weight file to determine the impact of each NIS in a particular place. Each file should be named as single_<habitatname>.shp (write all habitat names in lower case). Alternatively, a file with multiple biotopes (in which case the name of each biotope is stored in a field called "Habitat"), such as those provided by e.g. EUNIS, EMODNET, Corine, Copernicus, could be used.

Please make sure that the names in the shape file match the names in the weight file (e.g., Fig. 8). Project the habitat shapefiles in LAEA (EPSG:3035) .

All files must be provided as a single .zip file. After the upload is complete, you must select the file before advancing to the next step. Dummy testing data is also available (shps.zip).