Ecological Land Classification (ELC)

Ecological Land Classification (ELC) is an approach which endeavours to subdivide the landscape into significant ecological units and to organize complex interrelationships into identified geographical areas with similar properties. It is a hierarchical system that captures information at the following scales as per the Ecological Land Classification and Evaluation Reference Manual (1980): Ecoprovince - >1:3 000 000 Ecoregion - 1:1 000 000 - 1:3 000 000 Ecodistrict - 1:250 000 - 1:1 000 000 Ecosection - 1:100 000 - 1:250 000 Ecosite - 1:10 000 - 1:20 000 Ecoelement - 1:1 000 - 1:5 000. Note that the upper two levels are referred to as Natural Region and Natural Subregion in the more recent Ecological Land Classification reports. There are also some variations in this hierarchy for individual study areas. The data is available as TIFF image files packaged together with the reports and other supporting documents divided alphabetically.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2018-05-01
Date ( RI_366 )
2018-05-01
RI_414
  Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta; Environment and Parks - ( )
https://open.alberta.ca/opendata
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
continual; continue RI_532
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • ALBERTA
  • BIOTA
  • ECOLOGY
  • GEOSCIENTIFICINFORMATION
  • LANDFORM
  • VEGETATION
  • WETLAND
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Government information
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Alberta (https://open.alberta.ca/licence)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Environment
Begin date
1971-01-01
End date
2001-12-31
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RI_414
  Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta; Environment and Parks - ( )
https://open.alberta.ca/opendata
OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (HTML) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (XML) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;XML;eng

File identifier
2e6b5f90-b760-4ef8-b839-8481bb9e5006 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-09-17
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
RI_414
  Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta; Environment and Parks - ( )
https://open.alberta.ca/opendata
 
 

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