SKEP Geographic Priorities. This layer shows areas of conservation importance, which were divided into geographical classes

Distribution of wetlands (subset to municipality for Municipal Biodiversity Summary Project)

SKEP Planning Domain. Defines the study area for the Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Plan (SKEP). The study area is divided into four sub-regions (Namibia-Gariep, Namaqualand, Hantam-Tanqua-Roggeveld and Southern Karoo).

Western Cape Wetlands Directory.

SKEP Framework for Planning. Combination of irreplaceability and vulnerability value per planning units. Irreplaceability captures the biodiversity significance of each planning unit in terms of vegetation types and expert features. Vulnerability reflects the potential of future transformation based on urban, crop, ostrich, and mining potential.

CAPE Lowlands Renosterveld – Ecological Processes (Soil Type Transitions). Soil type transitions are areas along which contrasting geological types meet. These areas are spatial components of important ecological and evolutionary processes such as plant diversification and pollinator movements. A 250 m buffer area was mapped on either side of where the two soil types meet (Limestone, Bokkeveld Shale, Malmesbury Shale, Cape Granite, Dolomite, Silcrete/Ferricrete, Sandstone and Sandy soils). The buffer was subdivided into smaller portions and the extent of urban, cultivated or natural vegetation falling within these portions of the process area was then determined.

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Ecosystem status of vegetation types was derived from the new vegetation map of South Africa (see Mucina, L and Rutherford, M.C. 2004).

This layer maps the distribution of wetlands and their types

List of threatened terrestrial ecosystems