

Great Lakes Islands packaged product


This package contains documentation and shapefiles for the Great Lakes Islands Ontario and United States analysis and reporting and includes:


1) Islands for Life: A Biodiversity and Conservation Atlas of the Great Lakes Islands (Islands_of_Life.pdf, final report)

2) Great_Lakes_Islands_April2010.zip (.zip of the shapefile of Ontario and United States islands in the Great Lakes)

3) Great_Lakes_Islands_April2010_metadata.htm (metadata file for islands shapefile)

4) Great Lakes Islands Attribute Table.doc (document with descriptives to all 56 attribute fields in the islands .shp)

5) Great_Lakes_coastal_environments.xls (summary spreadsheet of each coastal environment and associated number of islands and how the coastal environments were subsequently rolled into grouped coastal environments for reporting in the Islands for Life document.  The Islands were scored and analyzed based on their associated coastal environment.

6) Coastal_environments.jpg (image of each coastal environment).

7) Grouped_coastal_environments_for_reporting.jpg (image of each grouped coastal environment.  There are 80 individual coastal environments that were used to score and analyze islands.  Coastal environments were then grouped into 41 grouped coastal environments for reporting).

8) Grouped_Coastal_Environments.zip (.zip of the shapefile of Ontario and United States grouped coastal envrionments in the Great Lakes that are reflected in the Islans for Life reporting.

9) Islands_ranking_criteria_international.xls (spreadsheet contains worksheets of the United States and Ontario scoring criteria compared, details of each scoring criteria, comparison of the Ontario and U.S. scoring criteria, the details of the Protection Gap Analysis and details of the Threat Analysis).

For more information, please contact:

Natural Heritage Information Centre of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (1-705-755-2159), the Nature Conservancy of Canada at 1-800-465-0029 or The Nature Conservancy at Michigan@tnc.org

