This layer comes from the Threatened Environment Classification (TEC) version 2012, which is a source of national scale background information on New Zealand's land environments. Specifically, it shows how much native (indigenous) vegetation remains within land environments, and how past vegetation loss and legal protection are distributed across New Zealand's landscape. The TEC uses indigenous vegetation as a surrogate for indigenous biodiversity. This includes indigenous ecosystems, habitats and communities: the indigenous species, subspecies and varieties that are supported by indigenous vegetation, and their genetic diversity. The TEC is most appropriately applied to help identify places that are priorities for formal protection against clearance and/or incompatible land-uses, and for ecological restoration to restore lost species, linkages and buffers. The TEC is a combination of three national databases: Land Environments New Zealand (LENZ), classes of the 4th Land Cover Database (LCDB4, based on 2012 satellite imagery) and the protected areas network (version 2012, reflecting areas legally protected for the purpose of natural heritage protection).
For more information see: Cieraad E, Walker S, Price R, Barringer J. 2015. An updated assessment of indigenous cover remaining and legal protection in New Zealand’s land environments. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 39(2).
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DOI | 10.26060/21XC-V129 |
Category | Biota > Ecology > Ecosystem type > Terrestrial ecosystem |
Tags | Environment, Land Environment, Vegetation Protection, Legal Status, Indigienous Cover |
Regions | New Zealand |
Metadata | ISO 19115/19139, Dublin Core |
Technical Details | |
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Layer ID | 48288 |
Data type | Vector polygon | Feature count | 815185 |
Attributes | ID, ELEVATION, LENZlvl4, LENZlvl4_N, Nat02Pct, Nat08Pct, Nat12Pct, Prot02Pct, Prot12Pct, TEC02_Clas, TEC12_Clas, TEC12_Cl_1 |
Services | Vector Query API, Web Feature Service (WFS), Catalog Service (CS-W), data.govt.nz Atom Feed |
History | |
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Added | 15 Mar 2012 |
Last updated | 25 Mar 2015 |
Revisions | 8 - Browse all revisions |
Current revision | Imported on March 25, 2015 from Shapefile in NZGD2000 / New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000. |
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