Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

Data Sets

Services / Tools

Ancillary Descriptions

Are you using a browser that doesn't support JavaScript or have you disabled JavaScript?

If you have disabled JavaScript, you must re-enable JavaScript to use this page.
Or you can view this record using the Text Only Format.

Environmentally Significant Areas of Alberta, Canada

Entry ID: Canada_AlbertaParks_EnviroSignifAreas

[ Get Data ]
[ Update this Record ]

Summary

Abstract: Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) are important, useful and often sensitive features of the landscape. As an integral component of sustainable development strategies, they provide long-term benefits to our society by maintaining ecological processes and by providing useful products. The identification and management of ESAs is a valuable addition to the traditional socio-economic factors ...

Related URL

Link: GET DATA

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: GeoConnections Discovery Portal. Canada's IDN Node.

Geographic Coverage

(Click for Interactive Map)

Spatial coordinates

N: 60.0

S: 49.0

E: -110.0

W: -120.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Alberta Parks -- Tourism, Parks, and Recreation, Government of Alberta

Dataset Title: Environmentally Significant Areas of Alberta, Canada

Dataset Release Date: 2009

Dataset Release Place: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Dataset Publisher: Alberta Parks -- Tourism, Parks, and Recreation, Government of Alberta

Online Resource: http://www.albertaparks.ca/albertaparksca/library/environmentally-s...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2009-01-01

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA > Alberta

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > ENDANGERED SPECIES

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > LAND MANAGEMENT

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

ENVIRONMENT

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints Data are not expected to be used on a for-profit basis. Use of the data for commercial or for-profit applications are permitted only via written permission from the managers of the data network and from the component data caretakers. Proper acknowledgment of the ACIMS is expected. In most instances the boundaries of each ESA (polygon) is an approximation and were originally hand-drawn on 1:250 000 maps. The significant features within an ESA polygon may not be evenly distributed nor contiguous.Data are provided on an "as is" basis - no responsibility by ACIMS or by the caretakers of the original data is accepted for uses or misuses. There is no guarantee of the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the data or information.

Ancillary Keywords

Habitat Assessment

Rare Plants

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Alberta Parks – Tourism, Government of Alberta, Canada