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            <gco:CharacterString>Organic soils in the boreal forest commonly store as much carbon as the vegetation above ground. While recent efforts through the National Forest Inventory has yielded new spatial datasets of forest structure across the vast area of Canada’s boreal forest, organic soils are poorly mapped. In this geospatial dataset, we produce a map primarily of forested and treed peatlands, those with more than 40 cm of peat accumulation and over 10% tree canopy cover.  National Forest Inventory ground plots were used to identify the range of forest structure that corresponds to the presence of over 40 cm of peat soils.  Areas containing that range of forest cover were identified using the National Forest Inventory k-NN forest structure maps and assigned a probability (0-100% as integer) of being a forested or treed peatland according to a statistical model.  While this mapping product captures the distribution of forested and treed peatlands at a 250 m resolution, open, completely treeless peatlands are not fully captured by this mapping product as forest cover information was used to create the maps.
  The methodology used in the creation of this product is described in:
Thompson DK, Simpson BN, Beaudoin A. 2016. Using forest structure to predict the distribution of treed boreal peatlands in Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 372, 19-27. https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications?id=36751
  This distribution uses an updated forest attribute layer current to 2011 from:
Beaudoin A, Bernier PY, Villemaire P, Guindon L, Guo XJ. 2017. Species composition, forest properties and land cover types across Canada’s forests at 250m resolution for 2001 and 2011. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec, Canada. https://doi.org/10.23687/ec9e2659-1c29-4ddb-87a2-6aced147a990
  Additionally, this distribution varies slightly from the original published in 2016 in that here slope data is derived from the CDEM: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7f245e4d-76c2-4caa-951a-45d1d2051333
  The above peatland probability map was further processed to delineate bogs vs fens (based on mapped Larix content via the k-NN maps), as well as an approximation of the extent of open peatlands using EOSD data.  The result is a 9-type peatland map with a more complete methodology as detailed in:
  Webster, K. L., Bhatti, J. S., Thompson, D. K., Nelson, S. A., Shaw, C. H., Bona, K. A., Hayne, S. L., &amp; Kurz, W. A. (2018). Spatially-integrated estimates of net ecosystem exchange and methane fluxes from Canadian peatlands. Carbon Balance and Management, 13(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-018-0105-5
  In plain text, the legend for the 9-class map is as follows:
value="0" label="not peat" alpha="0"
value="1" label="Open Bog" alpha="255" color="#0a4b32"
value="2" label="Open Poor Fen" alpha="255" color="#5c5430"
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value="8" label="Forested Poor Fen" alpha="255" color="#fbfabc"
value="9" label="Forested Rich Fen" alpha="255" color="#ffb6db"

This colour scale is given in qml/xml format in the resources below.  The 9-type peatland map from Webster et al 2018 was further refined slightly following two simple conditions: (1) any 250-m raster cell with greater than 40% pine content is classified as upland (non-peat); (2) all 250-m raster cells classified as water or agriculture via the NRCan North American Land Cover Monitoring System (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111098) is also classified as non-peatland (value of zero in the 9-class map.  This mapping scheme was used at a regional scale in the following paper:
  Thompson, D. K., Simpson, B. N., Whitman, E., Barber, Q. E., &amp; Parisien, M.-A. (2019). Peatland Hydrological Dynamics as A Driver of Landscape Connectivity and Fire Activity in the Boreal Plain of Canada. Forests, 10(7), 534. https://doi.org/10.3390/f10070534
  And is reproduced here at a national scale.  
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                  <gmd:LocalisedCharacterString xmlns="" locale="#fra">Les sols organiques de la forêt boréale stockent généralement autant de carbone que la végétation en surface. Alors que les récents travaux réalisés dans le cadre de l'Inventaire forestier national ont permis d'obtenir de nouveaux ensembles de données spatiales sur la structure forestière dans la vaste zone de la forêt boréale canadienne, les sols organiques sont mal cartographiés. Dans ce jeu de données géospatiales, nous produisons une carte représentant principalement les tourbières boisées et arborées, c'est-à-dire celles où l'accumulation de tourbe est supérieure à 40 cm et où le couvert forestier est supérieur à 10 %. Des parcelles de l'Inventaire forestier national ont été utilisées pour identifier les différentes structures forestières correspondant à la présence de plus de 40 cm de sols tourbeux. Les zones contenant cette gamme de couvert forestier ont été identifiées à l'aide des cartes de structure forestière k-NN de l'Inventaire forestier national et se sont vu attribuer une probabilité (de 0 à 100 %) d'être une tourbière boisée ou une tourbière arborée selon un modèle statistique. Bien que ce produit cartographique reproduise la distribution des tourbières boisées et arborées à une résolution de 250 m, les tourbières ouvertes et totalement dépourvues d'arbres ne sont pas entièrement prises en compte par ce produit cartographique étant donné que des informations sur le couvert forestier ont été utilisées pour créer les cartes.
  La méthodologie utilisée pour la création de ce produit est décrite dans :
Thompson DK, Simpson BN, Beaudoin A. 2016. Using forest structure to predict the distribution of treed boreal peatlands in Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 372, 19-27. https://ostrnrcan-dostrncan.canada.ca/entities/publication/f86d799a-78be-42ee-98af-1b7e0384eee5.
  Cette distribution utilise une carte des attributs des forêts mise à jour jusqu'en 2011, provenant de :
Beaudoin A, Bernier PY, Villemaire P, Guindon L, Guo XJ. 2017. Species composition, forest properties and land cover types across Canada’s forests at 250m resolution for 2001 and 2011. Ressources naturelles Canada, Service canadien des forêts, Centre de foresterie des Laurentides, Québec, Canada. https://doi.org/10.23687/ec9e2659-1c29-4ddb-87a2-6aced147a990.
  En outre, cette distribution varie légèrement par rapport à l'original publié en 2016, dans la mesure où les données relatives à la pente sont dérivées du Modèle numérique d’élévation du Canada (MNEC) :
https://ouvert.canada.ca/data/fr/dataset/7f245e4d-76c2-4caa-951a-45d1d2051333
La carte de probabilité de tourbière ci-dessus a été approfondie pour délimiter les tourbières oligotrophe par rapport aux tourbières minérotrophes (sur la base de la teneur en mélèze cartographiée au moyen des cartes k-NN), ainsi qu'une approximation de l'étendue des tourbières ouvertes à l'aide des données OTDD. Le résultat obtenu est une carte présentant 9 catégories de tourbières utilisant une méthodologie plus complète décrite en détail dans :
Webster, K. L., Bhatti, J. S., Thompson, D. K., Nelson, S. A., Shaw, C. H., Bona, K. A., Hayne, S. L., et Kurz, W. A. (2018). Spatially-integrated estimates of net ecosystem exchange and methane fluxes from Canadian peatlands. Carbon Balance and Management, 13(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-018-0105-5
En texte clair, la légende de la carte présentant 9 catégories de tourbières est la suivante :
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 valeur = « 5 »  étiquette = « Tourbière minérotrophe pauvre arborée »  alpha = « 255 »  couleur = #aba476 
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 valeur = « 8 »  étiquette = « Tourbière minérotrophe pauvre forestière »  alpha = « 255 »  couleur =  #fbfabc  
 valeur = « 9 »  étiquette = « Tourbière minérotrophe riche forestière »  alpha = « 255 »  couleur =  #ffb6db  
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  La carte présentant 9 catégories de tourbières tirée de Webster et al 2018 a été légèrement améliorée en suivant deux critères simples : (1) toute cellule matricielle de 250 m dont le contenu en pin est supérieur à 40 % est classée comme hautes terres (sans tourbe); (2) toutes les cellules matricielles de 250 m dont la classe a pour objet l’eau ou l’agriculture par le Système de surveillance de la couverture terrestre nord-américaine de RNCan (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111098) sont également classées comme n’étant pas des tourbières (valeur de zéro dans la carte présentant les 9 catégories). Ce système de cartographie a été utilisé à l'échelle régionale dans l'article suivant :
Thompson, D. K., Simpson, B. N., Whitman, E., Barber, Q. E., et Parisien, M.-A. (2019). Peatland Hydrological Dynamics as A Driver of Landscape Connectivity and Fire Activity in the Boreal Plain of Canada. Forests, 10(7), 534. https://doi.org/10.3390/f10070534
Il est reproduit ici à l'échelle nationale.
  Prendre note que ce produit cartographique ne rend pas compte de toutes les caractéristiques des tourbières à pergélisol couvertes de régions boisées d'épinettes à canopée ouverte présentant une couverture végétale de lichens. 
  Les tourbières sans arbres situées près de la limite septentrionale des arbres ne sont pas non plus prises en compte dans les jeux d'entraînement, ce qui fait que la qualité de la cartographie dans ces régions n'est pas connue.</gmd:LocalisedCharacterString>
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