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WCBF George, Knysna, Bitou CBAs 1 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 edge-matched, 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. George_1_Knysna_Bitou forms part of these three Municipalities. George has been divided into two on the basis of where fine scale planning was and was not done. Please see CBA_and_ESA_George_2.shp for the remainder of George CBAs
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- Date (Publication)
- 2014
- Edition
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1.0
- Purpose
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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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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Critical Biodiversity Areas
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- Place
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George
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South Africa
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Knysna
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Bitou
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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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- Dataset
- Statement
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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:
o CBA only
o CBA and field in 2007
o CBA and field in 2011
o CBA and field in both 2007 and 2011
? Later these categories became:
o CBA
o CBA (potentially rehabilitating agric land)
o CBA lost to agric landuse
o CBA (known agric landuse)
? Renamed “HabCon” field “HabCon_org”
? recalculated area
Step 2: ESAs then merged with CBAs - (Kirkwood et al., 2010), updated in 2014 (Pence) to more
accurately reflect conditions relevant to land-use decision making.>
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. Land-use 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.>
- File identifier
- 35cf043f-94f3-4fe5-a46b-e845c19facc4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2018-04-26T16:08:51
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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