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. (D. Bryant, et al., The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge. (World Resources Institute: Washington, DC, 1997).)
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Global Forest Watch Fronier Forests
Additional Info
- Project: Global Forest Watch Fronier Forests
- Dataset Title: Global Forest Watch Fronier Forests
- Data Series: unknown
- Orginator: Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute
- Institution Type: independent
- Author: Potapov, P., et al.
- Distributor: Data Basin - Conservation Biology Institute
- Reports: http://www.env-edu.gr/Documents/Last_Frontier_Forests.pdf
- Data Type: GIS
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: unknown
- Source Date: 2008
- Version: unknown
- Access Constraints: open download - login
- Use Constraints: http://databasin.org/datasets/303c7eaabda34c5881553d29cfb01015
- Completion Status: unknown
- Maintenance: unknown
- Maintenance Frequency: unknown
- Metadata Available: [see online]
- Metadata Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Spatial Extent: International
- Traditional Knowledge: no
- Wildlife: no
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: forest; ecosystem; landscape; landcover;
- Data Category: vector
- Format: shp
- Feature Type: polygon
- Feature Count: unknown
- Dataset Descriptive Name: 303c7eaabda34c5881553d29cfb01015
- File Name: frontier.shp
- Scale: unknown
- Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere
- Downloadable: yes
- Downloadable Format: zip
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