The Canadian Human Footprint
Abstract: Efforts are underway in Canada to set aside terrestrial lands for conservation, thereby protecting them from anthropogenic pressures. Here we produce the first Canadian human footprint map by combining twelve different anthropogenic pressures and identify intact and modified lands and ecos...
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dataone:sha256:a5044e86968c2a48641be286e5bb99360b7189fd49d43b1cd1466112f0e418f0 2024-10-03T18:45:55+00:00 The Canadian Human Footprint Hirsh-Pearson, Kristen Johnson, Chris Schuster, Richard Wheate, Roger Venter, Oscar 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:a5044e86968c2a48641be286e5bb99360b7189fd49d43b1cd1466112f0e418f0 unknown Biodiversity Conservation Human Footprint Multiple Pressures Pressure Mapping Earth and Environmental Sciences Threats Cumulative Effects Anthropogenic Disturbance Dataset 2022 dataone:urn:node:BOREALIS 2024-10-03T18:18:19Z Abstract: Efforts are underway in Canada to set aside terrestrial lands for conservation, thereby protecting them from anthropogenic pressures. Here we produce the first Canadian human footprint map by combining twelve different anthropogenic pressures and identify intact and modified lands and ecosystems across the country. Our results showed strong spatial variation in pressures across the country, with just 18% of Canada experiencing measurable human pressure. However, some ecosystems are experiencing very high pressure, such as the Great Lakes Plains and Prairies national ecological areas which have over 75% and 56% of their areas, respectively, with a high human footprint. In contrast, the Arctic and Northern Mountains have less than 0.02% and 0.2% of their extent under high human footprint. A validation of the final map, using random statistical sampling, resulted in a Cohen Kappa statistic of 0.91, signifying an ‘almost perfect’ agreement between the human footprint and the validation data set. By increasing the number and accuracy of mapped pressures, our map demonstrates much more widespread pressures in Canada than were indicated by previous global mapping efforts, demonstrating the value in specific national data applications. Ecological areas with immense anthropogenic pressure, highlight challenges that may arise when planning for ecologically representative protected areas. Dataset Arctic Unknown Arctic Canada |
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Biodiversity Conservation Human Footprint Multiple Pressures Pressure Mapping Earth and Environmental Sciences Threats Cumulative Effects Anthropogenic Disturbance Hirsh-Pearson, Kristen Johnson, Chris Schuster, Richard Wheate, Roger Venter, Oscar The Canadian Human Footprint |
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Abstract: Efforts are underway in Canada to set aside terrestrial lands for conservation, thereby protecting them from anthropogenic pressures. Here we produce the first Canadian human footprint map by combining twelve different anthropogenic pressures and identify intact and modified lands and ecosystems across the country. Our results showed strong spatial variation in pressures across the country, with just 18% of Canada experiencing measurable human pressure. However, some ecosystems are experiencing very high pressure, such as the Great Lakes Plains and Prairies national ecological areas which have over 75% and 56% of their areas, respectively, with a high human footprint. In contrast, the Arctic and Northern Mountains have less than 0.02% and 0.2% of their extent under high human footprint. A validation of the final map, using random statistical sampling, resulted in a Cohen Kappa statistic of 0.91, signifying an ‘almost perfect’ agreement between the human footprint and the validation data set. By increasing the number and accuracy of mapped pressures, our map demonstrates much more widespread pressures in Canada than were indicated by previous global mapping efforts, demonstrating the value in specific national data applications. Ecological areas with immense anthropogenic pressure, highlight challenges that may arise when planning for ecologically representative protected areas. |
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