Title

National Ecological Framework for Canada - Terrestrial Ecozones

License

Open Government Licence 2.0 - Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0)

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Abstract

This layer was converted to a shapefile from a Esri File Geodatabase from Open Canada Portal, https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/3ef8e8a9-8d05-4fea-a8bf-7f5023d2b6e1

The “National Ecological Framework for Canada – Terrestrial Ecozones” dataset provides representations of ecozones.

An ecozone is the top level of the four levels of ecosystems that the National Ecological Framework for Canada defines. The framework divides Canada into 15 terrestrial ecozones that define its ecological mosaic on a sub-continental scale. Ecozones represent an area of the earth’s surface as large and very generalized ecological units. These units are characterized by interactive and adjusting abiotic and biotic factors.

Publication Date

Sept. 6, 2022, 7:30 p.m.

Type

Vector Data

Keywords

• Ecology
• Ecosystems
• Terrestrial ecosystems

Category

Biota

Flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat.

Regions

Canada

Responsible

AAFC

Group

Government of Canada

DOI

https://doi.org/10.34992/qp1r-8s13

Attribution

Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch

More info

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Maintenance Frequency

Frequency Of Maintenance For The Data Is Not Known

Restrictions

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

Edition

V2

Purpose

This dataset classifies the major ecologically distinctive areas of Canada's surface area, called ecozones. It provides location information for ecozones and links them to tables of associated attributes.

Language

English

Supplemental Information

Source: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/3ef8e8a9-8d05-4fea-a8bf-7f5023d2b6e1

Spatial Representation Type

vector data is used to represent geographic data

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