Boreal Region of Canada - Study Area of the BEACONs Project
Dates
Original Data Basin Creation Date
2010-08-10 05:37:35
Original Data Basin Modified Date
2010-08-10 05:40:43
Summary
The study area for the BEACONs Project is the boreal and taiga regions of Canada as defined by the Boreal, Taiga, and Hudson Plain ecozones (Marshall and Schut 1999).The Algonquin Lake - Nipissing ecoregion of the Boreal Shield ecozone was removed from the study area because the tree species of this ecoregion are predominantly non-boreal (e.g., sugar and red maple, black ash, yellow birch, eastern hemlock, eastern white pine, and beech). Marshall, I.B. and Schut, P.H. 1999. A National Ecological Framework for Canada - Overview. A cooperative product by Ecosystems Science Directorate, Environment Canada and Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 7 pages. http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/ecostrat/intro.html The shapefiles [...]
Summary
The study area for the BEACONs Project is the boreal and taiga regions of Canada as defined by the Boreal, Taiga, and Hudson Plain ecozones (Marshall and Schut 1999).The Algonquin Lake - Nipissing ecoregion of the Boreal Shield ecozone was removed from the study area because the tree species of this ecoregion are predominantly non-boreal (e.g., sugar and red maple, black ash, yellow birch, eastern hemlock, eastern white pine, and beech).
Marshall, I.B. and Schut, P.H. 1999. A National Ecological Framework for Canada - Overview. A cooperative product by Ecosystems Science Directorate, Environment Canada and Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 7 pages. http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/ecostrat/intro.html
The shapefiles used to create this coverage are listed below:
Ecozone and ecoregion shapefiles can be downloaded from http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/ecostrat/gis_data.html.
Jurisdictional boundary of Canada can be downloaded from: Atlas of Canada 1:1 million National Frameworks Data, Administrative Boundaries on Geogratis - http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=1260C840-E898-DD4D-30DA-C7550BFFE0FE
