Abstract:

This coverage provides the boundaries and degree of threat of frontier forests across the world, as published in "The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge." Frontier forests are defined as being primarily forested; of sufficient size to support viable populations of the full range of indigenous species associated with that particular forest ecosystem given periodic natural disturbance episodes; and exhibiting a structure and composition shaped largely by natural events, as well as by limited human disturbance from traditional activities. Frontier forests are relatively unmanaged, are home to most if not all of the species associated with that ecosystem type, are dominated by indigenous tree species associated with that ecosystem type, and are characterized by mosaics of forest patches representing a range of seral stages, in areas where such landscape heterogeneity would be expected to occur under natural conditions.

Purpose:

The purpose of the shapefile is to show where the last remaining large areas of forest remains, as well as to assess their degree of threat.  This dataset was developed for the Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Status Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific. (2005)

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Data set credit:

World Resources Institute, in collaboration with the World
Conservation Monitoring Centre and the World Wildlife Fund. In:
D. Bryant, et al., The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and
Economies on the Edge. (World Resources Institute: Washington,
DC, 1997).

Source contribution:

Forest cover provided by World
Conservation Monitoring Centre

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Process description:

Metadata imported.

Process description:

Metadata imported.

Attribute definition:

Internal feature number.

*Attribute definition source:

ESRI

Attribute definition:

Area of feature in internal units.

*Attribute definition source:

ESRI

Attribute definition:

Perimeter of feature in internal units.

*Attribute definition source:

ESRI

Attribute definition:

Internal feature number.

*Attribute definition source:

ESRI

Attribute definition:

User-defined feature number.

*Attribute definition source:

ESRI

Enumerated domain value definition:

Low or No Threat

Enumerated domain value definition:

Medium or High
Threat

Enumerated domain value definition:

Medium or High
Threat

Enumerated domain value definition:

Unassessed for
Threat

Attribute definition:

0 = Unassessed for threat; 1= Low or No Threat; 2 = Medium or High Threat; 3 = Medium or High Threat

*Attribute definition source:

ESRI

Attribute definition:

Description of the level of threat: Medium or High threat; Low or No threat; or Unassessed for threat (blank).

Attribute definition:

Area of the specified section of forest in square kilometers.

Attribute definition:

Area of the specified section of forest in square miles.

Attribute definition:

*Attribute definition source:

ESRI

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Frontier Forests
Data format: SDE Feature Class File or table name: sos.DBO.frntforest Coordinate system: Mercator Theme keywords: Frontier Forests, Intact Forests, Threatened Forests
Abstract: This coverage provides the boundaries and degree of threat of frontier forests across the world, as published in "The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge." Frontier forests are defined as being primarily forested; of sufficient size to support viable populations of the full range of indigenous species associated with that particular forest ecosystem given periodic natural disturbance episodes; and exhibiting a structure and composition shaped largely by natural events, as well as by limited human disturbance from traditional activities. Frontier forests are relatively unmanaged, are home to most if not all of the species associated with that ecosystem type, are dominated by indigenous tree species associated with that ecosystem type, and are characterized by mosaics of forest patches representing a range of seral stages, in areas where such landscape heterogeneity would be expected to occur under natural conditions.

FGDC and NBII Metadata: