The Exotic (EXO) and Native (NAT) biodiversity features represent exotic and native plant species communities in the Georgia Basin. These features (or rasters) were created following similar methods as Schuster & Arcese (2013), wherein they modelled and mapped bird species distributions using presence-absence data from ebird (http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/; Sullivan et al. 2009). Plant species occurrence data were drawn from several sources (Boag 2014; Dr. E Gonzales; Dr. Joe Bennett; E-Flora BC 2013). Data for the 20 most abundant native and exotic plant species (40 species total) identified by Bennett (2014) were used to map the NAT and EXO communities, respectively (species list can be found in Appendix B of the NPLCC Tool [...]
Summary
The Exotic (EXO) and Native (NAT) biodiversity features represent exotic and native plant species communities in the Georgia Basin. These features (or rasters) were created following similar methods as Schuster & Arcese (2013), wherein they modelled and mapped bird species distributions using presence-absence data from ebird (http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/; Sullivan et al. 2009). Plant species occurrence data were drawn from several sources (Boag 2014; Dr. E Gonzales; Dr. Joe Bennett; E-Flora BC 2013). Data for the 20 most abundant native and exotic plant species (40 species total) identified by Bennett (2014) were used to map the NAT and EXO communities, respectively (species list can be found in Appendix B of the NPLCC Tool Tutorial: https://nplcc.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/2014_Documents/Endangered_oak_savannah/NPLCC%20Douglas-fir%20Savannah%20Prioritization%20Tutorial_v1.1-1.pdf)
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Purpose
_exo_comm_rcp45 stands for “year 2055 probability of occurrence of common exotic plants in the Georgia Basin.” The purpose of this raster is to allow NPLCC tool users to incorporate the future (2055) probability of occurrence of exotic plants into user-specified prioritization scenarios. The extent of this raster is the Georgia Basin region within the entire NPLCC planning area (North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative; http://www.northpacificlcc.org/). Please see online tutorial for further explanation: https://nplcc.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/2014_Documents/Endangered_oak_savannah/NPLCC%20Douglas-fir%20Savannah%20Prioritization%20Tutorial_v1.1-1.pdf Or email Peter Arcese: peter.arcese@ubc.ca