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To achieve the vision outlined in the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy (BCO, 1995) requires multiple-scale hierarchical
approaches which include
contributions from ecology, geography, agriculture and forest science, and social sciences
such as economics, sociology and land-use planning. A co-operative,
cross-sectoral approach based on partnerships
promises better linkage between scientific perspectives and the spatial, temporal, and political structure of
decision-making.
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- An equal-area grid of 10,000 km2 hexagons was constructed from the truncated icosahedron on a Lambert azimuthal
equal-area map projection.
- The ranges of 697 common and COSEWIC mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, and COSEWIC fish, plants,
lepidoptera and molluscs were digitised
within the equal-area grid.
- The areas of 217 ecoregions were also digitised within the equal-area grid.
- C-Plan, a conservation planning software program, was used to identify important conservation areas and minimum
sets of sites required to
represent either (i) each taxa once, and/or (ii) 12 % of the area of each ecoregion, using 10
combinations of taxa and ecoregions.
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Terrestrial bird species richness displayed by equal area.
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Summed irreplaceability for all vertebrates and ecoregions.
Green cells have the highest irreplaceability value.
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