Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment
Safe and healthy habitat is the key to sustaining biodiversity, and biodiversity is key to a resilient landscape. A resilient landscape leads to resilience in landowner operations. The Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment Tool (HAB Tool) focuses on stewardship opportunities to build this resilience that is important to landowners as well as to at-risk wildlife and plants. Stewardship opportunities are selected for your land based on geographic location and existing habitat features, which you will be asked about during the assessment process. The locational information uses known and likely habitats that are suitable for plant, pollinator, and wildlife species at risk to narrow down the stewardship opportunities suggested for your land.
Acknowledgements
A committee of dedicated professionals contributed to the development of the Saskatchewan HBAT through reviews and discussion. Many thanks to Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre, Nature Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Prairie Conservation Action Plan, Ministry of Environment - Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Agriculture - Government of Saskatchewan, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), and the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan. Jeff Harder (ECCC) was key in amalgamating and processing the extensive amounts of data needed for this tool. This Canadian Forage and Grassland Association project has been funded by the Canada Nature Fund through Environment and Climate Change Canada.
With much appreciation, we acknowledge that data that underpins the habitat and biodiversity assessment tool have been generously provided in the spirit of collaborative conservation science by:
- BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2018) Bird species distribution maps of the world. Version 2018.1. Available at http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/requestdis.
- Canadian Wildlife Service
- Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC)
- eBird. 2020. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance; https://www.ebird.org/home.
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Foster, R.
- GBIF.org (24 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.kbagd3
- GBIF.org (25 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.furpfb
- GBIF.org (25 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.xyha6g
- GBIF.org (28 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3gm243
- GBIF.org (28 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.acdrst
- GBIF.org (28 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.umypze
- GBIF.org (28 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.v58wua
- GBIF.org (28 September 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.q5t9hp
- Government of Northwest Territories
- iNaturalist. Available from https://www.inaturalist.org. Accessed October 30, November 9-10, and November 17-18, 2020.
- International Union for Conservation of Nature
- NatureServe
- Pearse, A.T., Rabbe, M., Bidwell, M.T., Juliusson, L.M., Craig-Moore, L., Brandt, D.A., and Harrell, W. 2018, Map of whooping crane migration corridor: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7FT8K74
- Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre, Ministry of Environment, Government of Saskatchewan. 2020.
- Seidle, Kelsey Marie (2018) M.SC Thesis ’Habitat characterization of Saskatchewan’s Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae population’ University of Saskatchewan. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8690
- The Xerces Society, Wildlife Preservation Canada, York University, University of Ottawa, The Montreal Insectarium, The London Natural History Museum, BeeSpotter. 2020. Data accessed from Bumble Bee Watch, a collaborative website to track and conserve North America’s bumble bees. Available here https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/sightings/bee/. Accessed: November, 2020.
- Whiting, A.
Safe and healthy habitat is the key to sustaining biodiversity, and biodiversity is key to a resilient landscape. A resilient landscape leads to resilience in landowner operations. The Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment Tool (HAB Tool) focuses on stewardship opportunities to build this resilience that is important to landowners as well as to at-risk wildlife and plants. Stewardship opportunities are selected for your land based on geographic location and existing habitat features, which you will be asked about during the assessment process. The locational information uses known and likely habitats that are suitable for plant, pollinator, and wildlife species at risk to narrow down the stewardship opportunities suggested for your land.