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WCBF Cederberg terrestrial CBAs 2014

Identified ‘Critical Biodiversity Areas’(CBAs) and ‘Ecological Support Areas’ (ESAs) from the Western Cape Biodiversity Framework (Kirkwood et al., 2010), updated in 2014 (Pence) to more accurately reflect conditions relevant to land-use decision making.


The Western Cape Biodiversity Framework (WCBF) provides an edgematched, wall-to-wall coverage of all standard CBA categories to inform land-use decision making. Areas have either been formally assessed as part of a recognised Systematic Biodiversity Plan or only have ‘known’ CBA and ESA features indicated.

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Date (Publication)
2014
Edition

1.0

Purpose

All Critical Biodiversity Area (CBA) data for the Western Cape were updated to more accurately reflect: where CBAs were intentionally identified within agricultural fields, where CBAs have been lost to agricultural expansion (between 2007 and 2011), where CBAs are potentially rehabilitating from agricultural land-use, and where CBAs have now been secured into the Protected Area Network

Status
On going
Custodian
  CapeNature - Lesley Gibson ( Data Manager )
PGWC Shared Services Centre, corner Bosduif and Volstruis Streets , Cape Town , 7766 , South Africa
021 866 8000
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme
  • Critical Biodiversity Areas (CBAs)

  • Terrestrial

Place
  • Cederberg

  • South Africa

  • Western Cape

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Denominator
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Language
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Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2016-01-01
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984

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ZIP

Version

1

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Step 1: CBA data updated with DAFF field data


-Best available CBA layers were sourced from either the Western Cape Biodiversity Framework 2010 municipal datasets or the Updated Fine-Scale Biodiversity Planning project municipal datasets held by CapeNature.


-CBA records were isolated from the broader set of CBAs plus ESAs, ONAs, No Natural

Areas and PAs (from the “Category” field in the original attribute tables).


-A “New_CAT” (New Category) field was added (type = text or string).


-The new CBA-only data layers were unioned (ArcMap 10.2.1) first with the 2007 DAFF field dataset and then the 2013 DAFF field dataset1 (wc_fields_20070621_I_utm34wgs.shp and WcFb_2011Spot5_2013_UTM34S.shp,

respectively).


-Following the unions, all non-CBA records where first deleted and then a series of queries were used to identify places (i.e., records) where: (1) CBAs do not overlap with agricultural fields, (2) CBAs overlap with fields in 2007 only, (3) CBAs overlap with fields in 2011 only, and (4) CBAs overlap with fields in both 2007 and 2011.


-The “New_CAT” field was populated to reflect these combinations of attributes:


CBA only

CBA and field in 2007

CBA and field in 2011

CBA and field in both 2007 and 2011

-Later these categories became:


CBA

CBA (potentially rehabilitating agric land)

CBA lost to agric landuse

CBA (known agric landuse)

-Renamed “HabCon” field “HabCon_org”

-recalculated area


Available documentation:


•Kirkwood, D., Pence, G.Q.K. & von Hase, A. 2010 Western Cape Biodiversity Framework: Critical Biodiversity Areas and Ecological Support Areas of the Western Cape. A C.A.P.E. Landuse planning project. Unpublished Project Report.


•Pence, G Q.K. 2014. Western Cape Biodiversity Framework 2014 Status Update: Critical Biodiversity Areas of the Western Cape. Unpublished CapeNature project report. Cape Town,

South Africa

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Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-09-13T11:43:20
Metadata standard name

SANS 1878

Metadata standard version

FGDC-STD-001-1998

Distributor
  SANBI - Sediqa Khatieb ( The Metadata Manager )
Kirstenbosch Research Centre , Cape Town , Claremont , 7735 , South Africa
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