SANBI Metadata
Garden Route (GR) Vegetation Layer
A composite vegetation layer, consisting mostly of the Garden Route Vegetation Map (Vlok,mEuston-Brown & Wolf, 2008), supplemented by the Little Karoo Vegetation Map (Vlok et al., 2005) and the Riversdale Vegetation Map (Vlok and de Villiers, 2007).
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2009
- Edition
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1.0
- Purpose
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To provide fine scale habitat units for setting habitat priorities and inputs into the systematic conservation planning assessment and identification of CBA areas.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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Vegetation
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- Place
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Eastern Cape
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South Africa
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Western Cape
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Garden Route
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- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- otherRestictions
- Other constraints
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TODO: please complete per data partner / dataset
- 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 services published are available at this URL.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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BGIS Map Services
- OnLine resource
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A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
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BGIS Spatial Datasets
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Users are referred to the attached report for a comprehensive explanation of the vegetation mapping process and the units described.
Vlok, J.H.J., Euston-Brown D.I.W. & Wolf, T. 2008. A vegetation map for the Garden Route Initiative. Unpublished 1:50 000 maps and report supported by CAPE FSP task team.
Additional vegetation mapping references include:
Vlok J.H.J., Cowling R.M., Wolf T. 2005. A vegetation map for the Little Karoo. Unpublished maps and reports for a SKEP project supported by CEPF grant no.1064410304.
Vlok, J.H.J. and de Villiers, M.E. 2007. A vegetation map for the Riversdale Coastal Plain. Report for CapeNature, as part of the C.A.P.E. programme: Fine-Scale Biodiversity Planning project. Cape Town, South Africa.
Available documentation:
Holness, S. D., Bradshaw, P. L., & Brown, A. E. (2010). Critical Biodiversity Areas of the Garden Route: Conservation Planning Technical Report, Garden Route Initiative. SANParks, Port Elizabeth.
- File identifier
- 1585e88f-0e67-4438-b381-0d2b8175d4c8 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2017-07-10T10:31:00
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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