BRITISH COLUMBIA BIOLOGICAL SHORE-ZONE MAPPING SYSTEM

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March 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ABSTRACT

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Purpose

1.2 Background

1.3 Format

2.0 PHILOSOPHY AND APPROACH

3.0 GENERAL APPROACH

3.1 Field Methods

3.3 Definitions

4.0 BIOTIC MAPPING DATABASE

4.1 Shore Unit Database

4.2 Component Database

4.3 Band Database

4.4 Biota Database

5.0 MAPPING EXAMPLE

5.1 Project Data and Exposure Information

5.2 Shore Unit Information

5.3 Across-shore Component Information

5.4 Band Information

5.5 Biota Information

5.6 Explicitly Mapped Information

6.0 LITERATURE CITED

APPENDIX 1 Species Codes

APPENDIX 2 Codes and Definitions for Biological Survey Parameters

APPENDIX 3 Physical Shore-Zone Mapping Example

LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE 1 Basic components and interrelationships of a habitat model for marine shorezone

FIGURE 2 Banding schematic

FIGURE 3 Typical banding pattern on bedrock substrate

FIGURE 4 Banding schematic

FIGURE 5 Herring fishery in the Copper Island area

FIGURE A2.1 Distribution codes and examples

FIGURE A2.2 Abundance codes and examples under various distribution patterns

FIGURE A3.1 Location of the Queen Charlotte Islands (inset) and the Copper Islands

FIGURE A3.2 Wave exposure units of East Copper and Jeffrey Islands

FIGURE A3.3 Wave Fetch Measurements for Exposure Unit 7/7

FIGURE A3.4 Vertical aerial photo of the Copper Islands and the working copy of associated shore units on East Copper Island

FIGURE A3.5 Sketch of Shore Unit 7/7/01 illusrating across-shore components of the shore unit. See Table A3.4 for detailed coding of across-shore components.

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1 Shore unit database

TABLE 2 Component database

TABLE 3 Band database

TABLE 4 Biota database

TABLE 5 Shore unit database example

TABLE 6 Band database example

TABLE 7 Biota database example

TABLE 8 Fisheries coding sheet

TABLE A2.1 Band database

TABLE A2.2 Biological colour band descriptions developed for the west coast of Vancouver Island

TABLE A2.3 Method of data collection: a measure of effort level and resolution

TABLE A2.4 Biota database

TABLE A3.1 Data entry fields - project information

TABLE A3.2 Shore-zone data entry fields - wave exposure information

TABLE A3.3 Shore-zone data entry fields - shore unit information

TABLE A3.4 Shore-zone data entry fields - shore component information

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Funding of the Resources Inventory Committee work, including the preparation of this document, is provided by the Corporate Resource Inventory Initiative (CRII) and by Forest Renewal BC (FRBC). Preliminary work of the Resources Inventory Committee was funded by the Canada-British Columbia Partnership Agreement of Forest Resource Development FRDA II.

The Resources Inventory Committee consists of representatives from various ministries and agencies of the Canadian and the British Columbia governments as well as from First Nations peoples. RIC objectives are to develop a common set of standards and procedures for the provincial resources inventories, as recommended by the Forest Resources Commission in its report “The Future of our Forests”.

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Coastal Ecosystems

BRITISH COLUMBIA BIOLOGICAL SHORE-ZONE MAPPING SYSTEM

By

Gary F. Searing and H. Russ Frith

LGL Limited Environmental Research Associates

9768 Second Street

Sidney, BC V8L 3Y8

For

Don Howes

BC Environment Land Use Coordination Office

Market Square, #229 - 560 Johnson Street

Victoria, BC V8V 1X4

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