2018 Coast Ecosystem Map
First version of an integrated coast map including coastal ecosystem types from the terrestrial, marine, and estuarine realms
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- Purpose
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The coast is not considered a realm, per se, but rather a cross-realm zone within which we have compiled the results from the National Biodiversity Assessment 2018 for the coastal portions of the terrestrial and marine realms and including all estuaries. Inland aquatic features are not included at this time. The cross-realm integration has allowed us to distil and highlight key messages and findings for the coast specifically, which were previously lost when each component of the coast was split among the realms and reported on separately.
- Credit
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Harris, L.R., Bessinger, M., Dayaram, A., Holness, S., Kirkman, S., Livingstone, T.-C., Lombard, A.T., Lück-Vogel, M., Pfaff, M., Sink, K.J., Skowno, A.L., Van Niekerk, L., 2019. Advancing land-sea integration for ecologically meaningful coastal conservation and management. Biological Conservation 237, 81-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.06.020
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
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This version will be updated with subsequent iterations periodically as new data is produced.
- Theme
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Coast
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Assessment
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Protection level
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Classification
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- Use limitation
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This dataset may not be reproduced by any means, nor redistributed via web site or ftp site, without prior permission. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of data, users are advised to use the dataset and conclusions drawn from its use with caution. Users noting errors and omissions are requested to notify Linda Harris (harris.linda.r@gmail.com) to improve data accuracy. These data are not for resale or replicating. This digital version is in the public domain requiring only the conventional acknowledgement of source in publications and reports. harris.linda.r@gmail.com This dataset may not be reproduced by any means, nor redistributed via web site or ftp site, without prior permission. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of data, users are advised to use the dataset and conclusions drawn from its use with caution. Users noting errors and omissions are requested to notify Linda Harris (harris.linda.r@gmail.com) to improve data accuracy. These data are not for resale or replicating. This digital version is in the public domain requiring only the conventional acknowledgement of source in publications and reports.
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- Copyright
- Use constraints
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APPROPRIATE USE OF THIS DATASET: The NBA 2018 coast Threat Assessment and Protection Level layer has been created for national purposes and the boundaries of some ecosystem types are mapped at a coarse scale. Therefore, the map may act as a guide to the marine ecosystems in a region but is not appropriate for any work requiring fine scale investigations. Much of the map still requires field verification.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Biota
- Supplemental Information
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PROJCS["AEA_RSA_WGS84",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Albers"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",25.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",-24.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",-33.0],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]
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- Statement
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In the National Spatial Biodiversity Assessment 2004 (Driver et al. 2004) and National Biodiversity Assessment 2011 (Driver et al. 2012), the terrestrial, freshwater/inland aquatic, estuarine and marine realms were assessed independently. Although this is appropriate given their substantial differences, a key issue has always been that the land-sea interface was overlooked as a coherent ecological entity.
In the National Biodiversity Assessment 2018 (Skowno et al. 2019), we sought to address the limitations described above. Substantial efforts have been made to align the realms at the land-sea interface in order to better represent coastal ecosystem types, and to better assess headline indicators for ecosystem types that have cross-realm linkages and dependencies.
- File identifier
- e825e6ab-7862-4917-9a40-518bf9b88a09 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2019-10-01T15:47:55
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998