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Resource Abstract:
- description: This data set contains distribution information for all birds occurring in the Western Hemisphere. The goal of
this project is to make this distributional information freely available to the public to inform conservation and other landuse
decisions. A Memorandum of Understanding signed by NatureServe (then<br /> known as the Association for Biodiversity
Information), The Nature<br /> Conservancy/Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International/CABS, World Wildlife Fund-US,
and in 2000, with the subsequent addition of Environment Canada, governed the initial development and guidelines for sharing
of these data. The MOU expired in 2003, but NatureServe, the compiler of the data set,<br /> continues to maintain the
data largely in the spirit of the original MOU. The ArcView shape files contain the known range of each species. Ranges may
be depicted as polygons where a species is widespread, as points where there are isolated records, or both. Not all vagrant
occurrences are depicted, especially those in the US and Canada. The files are arranged in folders by<br /> family.
The file naming convention, designed to allow manipulation of the files in Arc/Info, is as follows.<br /> POLYGON files
are named: gggg_ssss_pl.xxx where gggg are the first 4 letters of the genus name, ssss are the first 4 letters of the specific
name, and xxx are the extensions (e.g., shp, dbf) that ArcView attaches to shapefiles. 1:1,000,000; abstract: This data set
contains distribution information for all birds occurring in the Western Hemisphere. The goal of this project is to make this
distributional information freely available to the public to inform conservation and other landuse decisions. A Memorandum
of Understanding signed by NatureServe (then<br /> known as the Association for Biodiversity Information), The Nature<br
/> Conservancy/Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International/CABS, World Wildlife Fund-US, and in 2000, with the subsequent
addition of Environment Canada, governed the initial development and guidelines for sharing of these data. The MOU expired
in 2003, but NatureServe, the compiler of the data set,<br /> continues to maintain the data largely in the spirit of
the original MOU. The ArcView shape files contain the known range of each species. Ranges may be depicted as polygons where
a species is widespread, as points where there are isolated records, or both. Not all vagrant occurrences are depicted, especially
those in the US and Canada. The files are arranged in folders by<br /> family. The file naming convention, designed
to allow manipulation of the files in Arc/Info, is as follows.<br /> POLYGON files are named: gggg_ssss_pl.xxx where
gggg are the first 4 letters of the genus name, ssss are the first 4 letters of the specific name, and xxx are the extensions
(e.g., shp, dbf) that ArcView attaches to shapefiles. 1:1,000,000
Citation
- Title BLM REA COP 2010 Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere - Peregrine Falcon, Colorado Plateau ecoregion,
USA.
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- creation Date
2017-12-13T10:12:05.498265
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2018-08-06T22:20:10Z
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- notes: This metadata record was generated by an xslt transformation from a dc metadata record; Transform by Stephen M. Richard, based
on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-08-06T22:20:10Z
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- organisation Name
CINERGI Metadata catalog
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Metadata language
eng
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utf8
Metadata standard for this record:
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
standard version:
2007
Metadata record identifier:
urn:dciso:metadataabout:e646fe43-1363-4844-be15-cf242a844c76
Metadata record format is ISO19139 XML (MD_Metadata)