Boreal Caribou Habitat Suitability in Québec Protected Areas

232,480 km² of habitat suitability data for boreal caribou in Québec, including 1079 protected areas, produced by Amanda Martin. The dataset and associated R code were last updated on May 6, 2026. It supports an analysis comparing habitat quality inside and outside protected areas.

Use Cases

• Evaluating protected area performance for caribou conservation based on habitat suitability scores.
• Analyzing the relationship between habitat quality and protected area characteristics like size and protection level.
• Modeling spatial habitat suitability for a threatened species across a large geographic region.
• Assessing progress towards biodiversity framework targets using habitat quality metrics.

Strengths

• Data covers a large spatial extent of 232,480 km².
• Analysis includes 1079 protected areas for comparative assessment.
• Includes R code for reproducibility of the habitat suitability modeling.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-05-06).

Provenance

Source

Amanda Martin

Collection Method

Expert-based habitat suitability model applied to spatial data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 15:51:50

Geography

Québec, Canada