The Biodiversity Resource Category includes five priorities levels depicting conservation significance for protecting high quality surface water resources at the statewide scale. The 5 priority levels are based on rules-based selection from 4 core data layers including the Strategic Habitat Conservation Areas, Under-protected Natural Communities, Biodiversity Hotspots, Rare Species Habitat Conservation Priorities layers.
The Biodiversity Resource Category layer is intended to be used as one of several decision support tools for informing the work of the Century Commission and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Cooperative Conservation Blueprint, and it may also be suitable as a resource planning guide for various state, regional, and local entities interested in effective natural resource protection and management. While other planning efforts have focused on particular resources, whereas CLIP is intended to provide a broad synthesis of natural resource GIS data to support comprehensive identification of statewide conservation opportunities.
Although all priority levels have significance, based on the TAG process the most important priorities are CLIP Priority 1 and CLIP Priority 2. CLIP Priority 3 can be considered moderate priority at the statewide scale. CLIP Priority 5 Primarily includes broader watersheds with relevance from a cumulative impact perspective for protecting important watersheds identified in the Significant Surface Waters core data layer.
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1) These data were created using input data consistent with 24,000 to 1:100,000 map scale resolution. Such data are of sufficient resolution for state and regional scale conservation planning. They are not appropriate for use in high accuracy mapping applications such as property parcel boundaries, local government comprehensive plans, zoning, DRI, site plans, environmental resource or other agency permitting, wetland delineations, or other uses requiring more specific and ground survey quality data. 2) The analysis, maps and data on this website were developed for state and regional conservation planning purposes and are not intended, nor sufficient, to be the basis for local government comprehensive plans, environmental resource or agency permitting decisions. 3) These data are likely to be regularly updated and it is the responsibility of the user to obtain the most recent available version of the database. 4) Data should not be transferred to a third party, in data or map form, without noting these disclaimers.
Tom Hoctor, University of Florida GeoPlan Center Jon Oetting, Florida Natural Areas Inventory
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0 = No Data 1 = Priority 5 (lowest) 2 = Priority 4 3 = Priority 3 4 = Priority 2 5 = Priority 1 (highest)