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Alberta Environment and Protected Areas and the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) jointly developed a Landscape Connectivity indicator for the province of Alberta. An Equivalent Connected Area index was selected to measure landscape connectivity and assess changes in connectivity over time. The indicator accounts for three broad land cover types: Upland Forest, Lowland Forest and Grass-Shrub. Landscape connectivity for the three land cover types, and an aggregated value, were calculated for all Hydrological Unit Code 8 (HUC 8) watersheds in Alberta for 2010, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 using four GIS layers: the Human Footprint Inventories created and maintained by the ABMI through the Alberta Human Footprint Monitoring Program, the Wall-to-Wall Vegetation Layer Including “Backfilled” Vegetation created and maintained by the ABMI. the wildlife crossing locations in National Parks provided by Parks Canada, and the Hierarchical Watershed Boundaries of Alberta created and maintained by the Government of Alberta. The calculations of connectivity accounted for the recovery of forest harvest areas.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Land Connectivity Indicator (SHP) (From Alberta Geodiscover Portal metadata)	ZIP		https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/environment/LandscapeConnectivityIndicator.zip
Landscape Connectivity Indicator - (HTML)	HTML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/ac076cb4673047ac8fa060f9ee58a420/html
Landscape Connectivity Indicator - (XML)	XML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/ac076cb4673047ac8fa060f9ee58a420/xml
Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata)	HTML		https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/9a3fd4a2-600f-4aee-92d6-29a64ff829ad
Landscape Connectivity Indicator for Alberta (PDF) (From Alberta Geodiscover Portal metadata)	HTML		https://open.alberta.ca/publications/landscape-connectivity-indicator-for-alberta

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