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About the Data
BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer provides conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for vertebrate animals, vascular plants, mosses, butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies, tiger beetles, non-marine molluscs and many ecological communities in British Columbia.
BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer represents a "snapshot" of dynamic data that are continually being updated and refined by the B.C. Conservation Data Centre (CDC) from the CDC databases. Updates to data occur as follows:
Annually in April/May:
- Rank Changes (G-Ranks, S-Ranks, BC List Status)
- Conservation Framework Priorities and Action Groups
Regularly as updated or completed:
Conservation Status and Taxomony Data most recently updated: May 2011.
- Addition of new species or ecological communities or species or ecosystem groups
- Taxonomic and/or name changes (including Species Codes)
- COSEWIC status (Updates occur in April and November)
- SARA Legal Status
- Distribution information (e.g. Forest District, BGC, MOE Region, etc.)
- Species/Ecosystem Summaries and Conservation Status Reports
- Mapped Known Locations
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