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Terrestrial Species List - ACE [ds2700] Extended Table

Metadata Updated: July 24, 2025

For more information, see the Terrestrial Biodiversity Factsheet at https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=150831.The California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE) is a compilation and analysis of the best-available statewide spatial information in California on biodiversity, rarity and endemism, harvested species, significant habitats, connectivity and wildlife movement, climate vulnerability, climate refugia, and other relevant data (e.g., other conservation priorities such as those identified in the State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP), stressors, land ownership). ACE addresses both terrestrial and aquatic data. The ACE model combines and analyzes terrestrial information in a 2.5 square mile hexagon grid and aquatic information at the HUC12 watershed level across the state to produce a series of maps for use in non-regulatory evaluation of conservation priorities in California. The model addresses as many of CDFWs statewide conservation and recreational mandates as feasible using high quality data sources. High value areas statewide and in each USDA Ecoregion were identified. The ACE maps and data can be viewed in the ACE online map viewer, or downloaded for use in ArcGIS. For more detailed information see https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/Analysis/ACEand https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=24326.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date July 24, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 24, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025
Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2022-09-19T18:25:16.000Z
Data Last Modified 2020-03-13T00:00:00.000Z
Category Natural Resources
Public Access Level public
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Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250724151128
Harvest Object Id 5b25ce7f-f0a0-4f50-ba51-2866918336b7
Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 9f6be50a4da94eb019a9d87181e473c0777556525033b5e0b2724f8d32448821
Source Schema Version 1.1

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