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    Biodiversity by County - Distribution of Animals, Plants and Natural Communities

    Metadata Updated: July 12, 2025

    The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) collects and maintains several datasets on the locations, distribution and status of species of plants and animals. Information on distribution by county from the following three databases was extracted and compiled into this dataset. First, the New York Natural Heritage Program biodiversity database: Rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities. Significant natural communities are rare or high-quality wetlands, forests, grasslands, ponds, streams, and other types of habitats. Next, the 2nd NYS Breeding Bird Atlas Project database: Birds documented as breeding during the atlas project from 2000-2005. And last, DEC’s NYS Reptile and Amphibian Database: Reptiles and amphibians; most records are from the NYS Amphibian & Reptile Atlas Project (Herp Atlas) from 1990-1999.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 12, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NY State JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 12, 2025
    Publisher State of New York
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.ny.gov/api/views/tk82-7km5
    Data First Published 2018-02-09
    Data Last Modified 2022-02-25
    Category Energy & Environment
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ny.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 888ae188-6846-4188-984a-7100e460ff84
    Harvest Source Id 36f923f9-f915-42dc-a4de-1a5e3a17d284
    Harvest Source Title NY State JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.ny.gov/d/tk82-7km5
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c3d64315ad19da13cf5e31e514aa98363d9400931376ee3305d3b6df10ac5227
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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