Description

Ecological Land Classification (ELC) is an approach which endeavours to subdivide the landscape into significant ecological units and to organize complex interrelationships into identified geographical areas with similar properties. It is a hierarchical system that captures information at the following scales as per the Ecological Land Classification and Evaluation Reference Manual (1980): Ecoprovince - >1:3 000 000 Ecoregion - 1:1 000 000 - 1:3 000 000 Ecodistrict - 1:250 000 - 1:1 000 000 Ecosection - 1:100 000 - 1:250 000 Ecosite - 1:10 000 - 1:20 000 Ecoelement - 1:1 000 - 1:5 000. Note that the upper two levels are referred to as Natural Region and Natural Subregion in the more recent Ecological Land Classification reports. There are also some variations in this hierarchy for individual study areas. The data is available as TIFF image files packaged together with the reports and other supporting documents divided alphabetically.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/EcologicalLandClassificationIndex.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/ELC_ReportsAtoC.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/ELC_ReportsDtoG.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/ELC_ReportsHtoM.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/ELC_ReportsNtoP.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/ELC_ReportsR.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/ELC_ReportsStoT.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/geoscientificInformation/Ecological/ELC_ReportsUtoY.zip
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (HTML)	HTML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/cb714099d52148bf8f5cccf47d793461/html
Ecological Land Classification (ELC) - (XML)	XML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/cb714099d52148bf8f5cccf47d793461/xml
Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata)	HTML		https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/2e6b5f90-b760-4ef8-b839-8481bb9e5006

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