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Identifier	marineAreaPercentage
Short name	marineAreaPercentage
Dataset	CDDA
Table	Designated area
Reference URL	http://dd-test.01dev.eea.europa.eu/datasets/latest/CDDA/tables/DesignatedArea/elements/marineAreaPercentage
Name	Percentage of Marine area
Definition	Percentage of the total area of marine ecosystems in the designated area.
Methodology for obtaining data	This field should be filled when the designated area includes more than just marginal marine as well as terrestrial ecosystems (Major ecosystem type = "marineAndTerrestrial"). The value can be estimated. No value is allowed if the site is defined as purely marine or terrestrial (Major ecosystem type = "marine" or Major ecosystem type = "terrestrial"). If a spatial analysis is used, we recommend that you introduce a threshold to reduce the number of marineAndTerrestrial artifact sites. A spatial analysis, using a coastline likely digitised at a different scale than the designated areas, will inevitably introduce misleading results. It is recommended to consider sites with less than 1% terrestrial ecosystem as fully marine sites and sites with less than 1% marine ecosystem as fully terrestrial. If your country has a complicated coastline, you may even consider to investigate manually all sites below a 5% threshold to determine the appropriate major ecosystem type. It is not required to provide a highly precise value with decimal digits. In the future the data type of this element will be changed to integer. A coastal designated area located on the terrestrial side of the coastline should be considered fully terrestrial.
Datatype	float
Unit	%
Minimum inclusive value	0
Maximum inclusive value	100
Public or Internal	Public attribute
Responsible	Marek STARON
Reporting obligation	[EEA AWP] Nationally designated areas (CDDA)
Is language used	No