Private lands contributed approximately 39–45% of highly connected habitat for urban-adapted species in Metro Vancouver, exceeding the contribution of public lands. This geospatial dataset quantifies vegetation dynamics and multi-species habitat connectivity by integrating land cover, parcel ownership, and landscape metrics from 2014 to 2020. The study by Mohamed, Abdiqafar, hosted on Borealis Harvested Dataverse, reveals a net regional forest loss of about 3,962 hectares alongside fragmentation patterns.
Use Cases
- Modeling multi-species habitat connectivity based on resistance-based connectivity modelling for four urban-adapted species.
- Analyzing fragmentation of vegetated patches based on landscape metrics comparing public and private lands.
- Assessing vegetation change over time based on land cover data tracking forest, shrub, and herbaceous vegetation.
- Evaluating the ecological role of private property based on parcel ownership data integrated with green space metrics.
Strengths
- Covers a 6-year time series from 2014 to 2020 for longitudinal analysis.
- Quantifies a net regional forest loss of approximately 3,962 hectares (-4.5%) with specific gains in shrub/herbaceous vegetation.
- Provides connectivity estimates for four species with different movement capacities, offering multi-species perspective.
- Integrates multiple data layers including land cover, parcel ownership, and landscape metrics.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Metro Vancouver study area.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- A geospatial framework integrating land cover data, parcel ownership, landscape metrics, and resistance-based connectivity modelling.
- Time Range
- 2014 to 2020
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-02 04:11:39; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada