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To describe the conservation status of the vegetation types within the Gouritz Initiative planning domain

Use Constraints:

All data are supplied without distribution rights. You may not redistribute, copy or sell in any form (value added

or not) these data to any other parties/bodies outside your organisation/department. All data sets are supplied

with metadata files which, inter alias, include information on the custodian of the specific data set. Any reports

and/or publications resulting from your project must acknowledge the Western Cape Nature Conservation

Board (WCNCB), Scientific Services and, if different, the custodian of the data.

Access Constraints:

Copyright: Yes

Disclaimer:

All data are supplied with no expressed or implied warranty as to their suitability for purpose, planimetric

accuracy or completeness. The WCNCB cannot be held responsible for any errors, which may occur in

It was agreed by H. de Klerk, G. Barodien, and A. Vlok that the vegetation would be clipped to the boundary

of the GIS planning domain, as all the transformation, protection, and conservation statistics are only

calculated for those portions of the vegetation falling within the study boundary. As the GI vegetation types

layer was compiled from the SKEP and CAPE layers, these latter two data layers can be used for areas

falling outside the GIS study area boundary.

GI_vegwgs.shp was clipped with GI_planning_domain_gw.shp to make gouritz_veg_gw.shp

The following tabular data was extracted from Lombard et al. (2004) and joined onto gouritz_veg_gw using

Table/Join and Fixjoin.avx:

- Appendices 1 and 2, providing endemism and percentage remaining for each vegetation type compared to

their original extent

- Appendices 3 and 4, providing percentage conserved for each vegetation type

- Appendices 6, providing the conservation status for each vegetation type (as determined by the percentage

remaining versus the target developed by Lombard et al., 2004).

SANS 1878

FGDC-STD-001-1998