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Renosterveld Ecological Processes Upland Lowland Gradients 2003 (upland_lowland_gradients_dd.shp)
CAPE Lowlands Renosterveld – Ecological Processes (Upland Lowland Gradients). Gradients linking upland (high-lying) areas to lowland habitat through natural vegetation. Such gradients capture ecological processes
operating at a larger scale such as biota migration and adaptation to climate change.
Upland-lowland gradients were identified using:
• remaining areas of natural vegetation, together with
• topography
A gradient was then mapped linking lowland (<300 m elevation) to upland (=300 m elevation) habitats. Upland-lowland gradients were only
mapped where natural vegetation remains and where the corridor length is no less than 2 km from lowest to highest elevation.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2003
- Edition
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1.0
- Purpose
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To identify and spatially depict ecological and evolutionary processes associated with natural corridors connecting lowland and montane habitats for conservation planning and land use management purposes. Note that this data layer is only one of several depicting ecological processes.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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Ecological Processes
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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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Copyright Holder: Botanical Society of South Africa
- 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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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
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BGIS Spatial Datasets
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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In order to spatially depict ecological processes associated with upland-lowland gradients in the Cape Lowlands Renosterveld region, areas connecting lowland and montane habitats along natural vegetation corridors were identified. Gradients could not traverse transformed habitats. This layer indicates the potential for such gradients rather than their exact spatial location.
For more information see more detailed explanations in the reference below.
Documentation:
Section 13 in Von Hase, A. et al. 2003. A fine-scale conservation plan for Cape Lowlands Renosterveld. Conservation Unit, Report 2/03. Botanical Society of SA, Cape Town. Available on www.botanicalsociety.org.za/ccu - see downloads.
- File identifier
- bbbb1f9f-f93d-41b1-9dc1-9939e699b213 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2017-05-25T15:12:36
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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