
Metadata for Data_RegionsGridded.shp

by Fritz et al.

If you use these datasets, please cite:



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DATA SUMMARY

Shapefile containing 1635 polygons (1° lat-long grid cells). Associated data file contains 1635 lines of 9 columns.


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DATA EXPLANATIONS: column names and content

- WorldMapID: an old ID column, not used
- Centroid_X: latitude (decimal) of the grid cell centroid
- Centroid_Y: longitude (decimal) of the grid cell centroid
- RandomID: another old ID column, not used
- CellArea: the area covered by the grid cell in square kilometres
- LandArea: the land area covered by the grid cell in square kilometres
- PropLand: the proportion of land area in the grid cell (LandArea divided by CellArea)
- WM_ID: the grid cell ID 
- Region: the region into which the grid cell fell, defined as shown in Fig. 1
