file format : GeoTIFF file format
file title  : biodvhot
last update : 15-jul-2010
producer    : T. Hengl
lineage     : http://spatial-analyst.net/scripts/getBIODIV.R
data type   : Byte
gdal driver : GTiff
columns     : 7200
rows        : 3600
meas. scale : Classes
description : Biodiversity hotspot regions based on Conservation International
proj4string : +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +no_defs
ref. system : geographic
ref. units  : arcdegrees
unit dist.  : 1
min. X      : -180
max. X      : 180
min. Y      : -90
max. Y      : 90
pos'n error : 5000
resolution  : 0.05
min. value  : 0
max. value  : 255
display min : 1
display max : 51
value units : factor
value error : unspecified
max. value  : 255
flag def'n  : unavailable data
src. Eng    : Hotspots Revisted dataset produced by Conservation International
src. URL    : http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/resources/pages/maps.aspx
src. scale  : 1:5M
src. refs   : Mittermeier, R. A., Robles-Gil, P., Hoffmann, M., Pilgrim, J. D., Brooks, T. B., Mittermeier, C. G., Lamoreux, J. L. & Fonseca, G. A. B. 2004. Hotspots Revisited: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Ecoregions. CEMEX, Mexico City, Mexico 390pp.
src. date   : 2000-2004
src. owner  : Conservation International Foundation 
legend cats : 35
Cat       1 : Atlantic Forest                              
Cat       2 : California Floristic Province                
Cat       3 : Cape Floristic Region                        
Cat       4 : Caribbean Islands                            
Cat       5 : Caucasus                                     
Cat       7 : Cerrado                                      
Cat       8 : Chilean Winter Rainfall and Valdivian Forests
Cat       9 : Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa            
Cat      11 : East Melanesian Islands                      
Cat      12 : Eastern Afromontane                          
Cat      14 : Guinean Forests of West Africa               
Cat      15 : Himalaya                                     
Cat      16 : Horn of Africa                               
Cat      17 : Hotspot Limit                                
Cat      19 : Indo-Burma                                   
Cat      21 : Irano-Anatolian                              
Cat      22 : Japan                                        
Cat      24 : Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands      
Cat      26 : Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands                   
Cat      27 : Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany                  
Cat      28 : Mediterranean Basin                          
Cat      30 : Mesoamerica                                  
Cat      32 : Mountains of Central Asia                    
Cat      33 : Mountains of Southwest China                 
Cat      34 : New Caledonia                                
Cat      36 : New Zealand                                  
Cat      38 : Philippines                                  
Cat      40 : Polynesia-Micronesia                         
Cat      42 : Southwest Australia                          
Cat      43 : Succulent Karoo                              
Cat      44 : Sundaland                                    
Cat      46 : Tropical Andes                               
Cat      47 : Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena                       
Cat      49 : Wallacea                                     
Cat      51 : Western Ghats and Sri Lanka