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GIS NATURA is a geographic information system incorporating, under one system, the Italian fauna, flora and fungi checklists, the fauna and flora distribution databases, the existing data on marine biocoenoses, the distribution models of Italian vertebrates (REN), the distribution of priority habitats according to the Habitats Directive, the vegetation series (Corine Land Cover level 4), the phytoclimatic, ecopedological and landscape maps, the administrative cartography, the boundaries of parks and protected areas (including Special Protection Areas and Sites of Community Importance). Project ended in 2005 and the most important product for the marine environment is a multiscale patchwork of different (already available) cartographic datasets for both Posidonia oceanicaand other benthic biocoenoses.