Aerial survey results document moulting and staging waterbird use of the Turner Lake wetlands in the Yukon Territory during 2005. The data was collected as part of land-use planning efforts for the Peel Plateau region, initiated by the Peel River Watershed Planning Commission. The Yukon Government is the listed organization for this dataset.
Use Cases
- Analyze waterbird population distribution based on aerial survey results mentioned in the description
- Assess wetland habitat importance for moulting and staging birds based on the designated wetland area
- Support land-use planning decisions for the Peel Plateau region based on ecological survey data
Strengths
- Focuses on a wetland area designated as important by the Yukon Wetlands Technical Working Group
- Data is associated with a detailed earthcover mapping project covering four million hectares
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Yukon
- Collection Method
- Aerial survey
- Time Range
- 2005
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 16:01:14.732769; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Turner Lake wetlands, Peel Plateau region, Yukon Territory