EUSeaMap 2025 Broad-Scale Predictive Habitat Map for Europe - Confidence in Salinity Based Classification in the Baltic

Confidence in the classification of salinity based classifications in the Baltic in the 2025 EUSeaMap broad-scale predictive habitat map, this was updated in the 2025 version.

Values are 1 (Low confidence), 2 (Moderate confidence) or 3 (High confidence).

The habitats within the Baltic region were classified using the following habitat descriptors: Biological zone Energy class Salinity regime Seabed substrate - updated in 2025

The confidence in the classification of the habitat type is taken as the minimum of the confidence in all of the relevant habitat descriptors at that location.

A report on the methods used in the 2025 version of EUSeaMap will be published in due course and reports on previous versions (v2016, v2019, v2021, v2023) are linked in lineage.

Created by the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project consortium.

Credit: Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 from the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Seabed Habitats initiative (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/seabed-habitats), funded by the European Commission.