File Geodatabase Feature Class
Tags
vegetation, land cover, plants
The primary purpose for creating these maps is provide a landscape-scale approach to monitoring changes due to land use, invasive species, recreation, hydrology, and climate. These digital maps, documenting changes and their causes, are then tools for prioritizing future conservation actions. The outdated map of the Coachella Valley MSHCP areas, created before 1999, was based on the Holland classification system and was inconsistent with current standards prescribed by CDFWs Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCaMP). As part of the CVMSHCP/NCCP monitoring program, a phased work plan to remap all 746,000 acres of Conservation Areas began in 2012. These mapping areas together nearly complete the remap of the Plan Area, together with other Conservation Lands mapped by other entities, and previous work by UCR CCB. The completion of these maps updates the 2007 CVMSHCP/NCCP natural community map. This section of the map provides critical information to assist in monitoring habitat suitability in conservation areas, and quantifies attributes to help researchers understand the effects of environmental variability, including drought and climate change. An updated vegetation map was required to enhance understanding of species and their habitats, and identify management needs to ensure persistence of target species within the Plan area. The updated vegetation map is an essential element of monitoring for other covered species and natural communities and provides a baseline to monitor natural communities and landscape-scale vegetation change. Quantification of biotic habitat variables help document factors that may influence species population fluctuation. These data are key to conservation of biological diversity in the Plan area, in light of the listed threats to habitats in this management unit: invasive species; threats to hydrological regime/processes; climate change and habitat fragmentation, wildfire management, off-highway vehicle use, and other anthropogenic surface disturbance (CVMSHCP, Section 8). Understanding habitat requirements for species will help to guide the development of land management actions that support recovery and sustainability of healthy populations. Data produced under this effort is publicly available and supports concurrent CVMSHCP/NCCP monitoring.
This polygon feature class contains the assigned vegetation type (Alliance) or land cover type, and other attributes.
The original vegetation map described above was prepared for publication in CDFW's Biogeographic Information and Observation System (BIOS) by the Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP).
Cameron W. Barrows - (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology)- Project lead; Lynn C. Sweet (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - vegetation assessments coordinator, creation and attribution of polygons, classification; James Heintz (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - vegetation field assessments, classification; Roxann Merizan (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - vegetation field assessments; Robert F. Johnson (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - GIS coordinator and analysis of geometry; geodatabase creation
The original public dataset was funded by the Coachella Valley Association of Governments. The authors of this dataset (Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside) and the Coachella Valley Association of Governments must be cited if used in a published study or as appropriate.
CDFW appreciates learning how our datasets are being used so that we can leverage support for classifying and mapping new areas and let users know of any updates. Please contact VegCAMP (https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP) when using this dataset.
License : This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.
Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.
Extent
| West | -116.829097 | East | -116.461786 |
| North | 34.043250 | South | 33.917937 |
| Maximum (zoomed in) | 1:5,000 |
| Minimum (zoomed out) | 1:500,000 |
The original public dataset was funded by the Coachella Valley Association of Governments. The authors of this dataset (Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside) and the Coachella Valley Association of Governments must be cited if used in a published study or as appropriate.
CDFW appreciates learning how our datasets are being used so that we can leverage support for classifying and mapping new areas and let users know of any updates. Please contact VegCAMP (https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP) when using this dataset.
License : This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.
Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.