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Standards for Broad Terrestrial
Ecosystem Classification and
Mapping for British Columbia:
Classification and Correlation of the
Broad Habitat Classes used in
1:250,000 Ecological Mapping

Prepared by
Ecosystems Working Group
Terrestrial Ecosystems Task Force
Resources Inventory Committee

November, 1998
Version 2.0

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Table of Contents

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1.0 INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE

2.0 BEU Classification

3.0 BEU MAPPING METHODOLOGY

4.0 COASTAL FOREST ECOSYSTEMS

5.0 SOUTHERN INTERIOR FOREST ECOSYSTEMS

6.0 CENTRAL AND NORTHERN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS

7.0 FORESTED WETLAND AND RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEMS

8.0 SUBALPINE PARKLAND AND KRUMMNOLZ ECOSYSTEMS

9.0 SHRUB AND HERB DOMINATED ECOSYSTEMS

10.0 NON-FORESTED AQUATIC AND WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS

11.0 NON-FORESTED SUBALPINE AND ALPINE ECOSYSTEMS

12.0 SPARSELY VEGETATED UNITS

13.0 URBAN AND AGRICULTURAL UNITS

14.0 REFERENCES

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

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