Title
Land Cover by Ecoregion
License
Open Government Licence 2.0 - Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0)
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Abstract

The National Ecological Framework for Canada's "Land Cover by Ecoregion” dataset provides land cover information within the ecoregion framework polygon. It provides landcover codes and their English and French language description as well as information about the percentage of the polygon that the component occupies.

Publication Date
Type
Vector Data
Keywords
Category
Biota
Flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat.
Regions
Canada
Responsible
Group
Government of Canada
Attribution
Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch
More info
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Maintenance Frequency
There Are No Plans To Update The Data
Restrictions

Open Government Licence - Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Edition
Record Modified: 2021-07-27
Purpose

This dataset supplies the land cover class definitions for components for each polygon for the corresponding level of generalization.

Language
English
Supplemental Information

Source: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8f08ef29-d6e9-4e09-9b79-ec7577dbe58e

Spatial Representation Type
vector data is used to represent geographic data

Layer WMS GetCapabilities document

Attribute Name Label Description
fid
OBJECTID_1
OBJECTID
COMPONENT_ Component Number Specifies the number of an ecological framework polygon component.
LANDCOVER_ Land Cover Percentage Specifies the area of the ecological framework polygon occupied by the land cover component, in percent.
ECOREGION_ Ecoregion ID Specifies a unique identifier that relates an ecoregion number from the spatial dataset to the attribute data.
LANDCOVER1 Land Cover Code Specifies the land cover code for an ecological framework polygon component.
DESCRIPTIO English Description Provides an English description for the associated code attribute.
DESCRIPT_1 French Description Provides a French description for the associated code attribute.
SHAPE_Leng
SHAPE_Area

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