4e653e23-f45e-4e3c-a171-5d4c83a1858a South African National Biodiversity Institute The Metadata Manager +27 21 799 8738 Kirstenbosch Research Centre Cape Town Claremont 7735 South Africa bgishelp@sanbi.org.za 2017-07-19T12:01:21 SANS 1878 FGDC-STD-001-1998 WGS 1984 Archived MS: Vegetation types 2005 1.0 Vegetation types for South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (subset per municipality in South Africa for the Municipal Biodiversity Summary Project). The layer was created for the Municipal Biodiversity Summary Project which aims to provide municipalities with biodiversity related information and spatial data. The data on vegetation types was taken from Mucina, L., Rutherford, M.C. & Powrie, L.W. (eds) 2005. Vegetation map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland which provide floristically based vegetation units of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. For the Municipal Biodiversity Summary Project this data was subset by municipality and used to provide a list of the vegetation types and their sizes (ha) per municipality. The percentage coverage of each vegetation type per municipality is also provided. Les Powrie South African National Biodiversity Institute Deputy Director: Information Technology Advisory Services 021 799 8703 Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Private Bag X7, Claremont, Cape Town 7735 South Africa L.Powrie@sanbi.org.za Vegetation South Africa Cape Town SANBI 50000 environment 2016-01-01 16.159389 33.034388 -34.9261 -21.947717 South African National Biodiversity Institute bgishelp@sanbi.org.za ZIP 1 http://bgismaps.sanbi.org/server/rest/services/BGIS_Projects WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link A list of services published are available at this URL. BGIS Map Services http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/127 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL. BGIS Spatial Datasets Methodology: The original data was intersected with municipal borders and subset into separate files per municipality to be served on BGIS. Available documentation: Further documentation is available on the Municipal Biodiversity Summary Project on BGIS (http://bgis.sanbi.org). This information includes summary statistics for specific biodiversity features per municipality, a terrestrial biodiversity summary map per municipality and documents explaining the background to the project with definitions of what the summaries include and fact sheets providing relevant information on biodiversity features and the implication of these biodiversity features for municipalities in terms of land-use planning and decision-making. The Municipal Biodiversity Summary Project uses data generated as of December 2009 and is based on the best available national spatial layers. Finer-scale biodiversity information is available for some municipalities and, if available, should be considered in land-use planning and decision-making in the municipality.