SANBI Metadata
NSBA River Ecosystem Status 2004 (river_cons_status.shp)
PRELIMINARY layer of South African river signatures and their conservation
status.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2004
- Edition
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1.0
- Purpose
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National Spatial Biodiversity Assessment 2004
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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Aquatic
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Rivers
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Ecosystem status
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- Place
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South Africa
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- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- otherRestictions
- Other constraints
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Please acknowledge CSIR when using this data
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2016-01-01
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL.
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- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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The 1:500 000 rivers GIS layer, available from DWAF, was used to classify river
heterogeneity signatures for South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. First, the river and geomorphic province GIS layers were spatially overlayed to classify rivers according to the geomorphic province within which they occur. Next, the hydrological index class was joined to the rivers using a relational join on the quaternary catchment identifier. This produced 120 unique combinations of geomorphic provinces and hydrological index, which were used as river heterogeneity signatures to depict biodiversity at a national scale
Available documentation: Driver, A., Maze, K., Lombard, A.T., Nel, J., Rouget, M., Turpie, J.K., Cowling, R.M., Desmet, P., Goodman, P., Harris, J., Jonas, Z., Reyers, B., Sink, K. & Strauss, T.
2004. South African National Spatial Biodiversity Assessment 2004: Summary Report. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute.
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Contact Jeanne Nel at jnel@csir.co.za or (021) 8882400 jnel@csir.co Contact Jeanne Nel at jnel@csir.co.za or (021) 8882400
Note: Please acknowledge CSIR when using this data.
- File identifier
- 0d9e01ba-093f-4a45-82c2-d140f0824b6c XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2017-05-26T15:47:05
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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