CCISS Environmental Suitability Ratings

This dataset contains the environmental suitability ratings of tree species for British Columbia and adjacent jurisdictions (Northwestern United States and Alberta) at a site series level. These ordinal ratings (E1-5) reflect the probability for successful establishment and growth of a species across the entire environmental space of a site series in the baseline (pre-climate change) climate normal period of 1961-90. The environmental suitability ratings focus on how well the species is suited to the climatic and site (i.e. edaphic) conditions of a site series regardless of management objective.

Tree species environmental suitability ratings refer to the degree to which a tree species can be successfully established and maintained to maturity under specific climatic & edaphic conditions in the absence of independent limiting factors such as biotic (e.g. forest health) or abiotic (e.g. fire) disturbances. The baseline environmental suitability does not include regions where a species is absent in natural stands due to non-climatic or site level factors such as unfavourable disturbance regimes or migration lags.

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Datasets available for download

• Species Environmental Suitability RatingsCSV
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• Data DictionaryPDF
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• Technical Report: Ratings of Tree Species...PDF
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• Addition of Off-Site/OHR Species into...PDF
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• MacKenzie and Mahony 2021 – CCISS journal article PDF
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• Forestry
• Future Forest...
• climate change
• climate change adaptation
• environmental suitability
• ffec
• tree species

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (46%)
• Maturity Level 2 (38%)
• Maturity Level 3 (0%)
• Maturity Level 4 (20%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (0%)

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Last Updated	October 19, 2025, 23:23 (UTC)
Created	October 19, 2025, 23:23 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	CCISS Environmental Suitability Ratings
Description A description of the dataset.	This dataset contains the environmental suitability ratings of tree species for British Columbia and adjacent jurisdictions (Northwestern United States and Alberta) at a site series level. These ordinal ratings (E1-5) reflect the probability for successful establishment and growth of a species across the entire environmental space of a site series in the baseline (pre-climate change) climate normal period of 1961-90. The environmental suitability ratings focus on how well the species is suited to the climatic and site (i.e. edaphic) conditions of a site series regardless of management objective. Tree species environmental suitability ratings refer to the degree to which a tree species can be successfully established and maintained to maturity under specific climatic & edaphic conditions in the absence of independent limiting factors such as biotic (e.g. forest health) or abiotic (e.g. fire) disturbances. The baseline environmental suitability does not include regions where a species is absent in natural stands due to non-climatic or site level factors such as unfavourable disturbance regimes or migration lags. Please see Data Dictionary for important information on data use.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Forestry Future Forest... climate change climate change adaptation environmental suitability ffec tree species
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2025-04-30
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Open Government Licence - British Columbia
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/cciss-environmental-suitability-ratings-
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Forest Carbon and Climate Services Branch
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Courtney Collins
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	[email protected]
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

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Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
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Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	https://github.com/bcgov/ccissr/tree/feas_tables
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	New versions of this dataset will be released annually with corresponding releases of the Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification (BEC). For details on the most recent changes, please see GitHub comments. • March 2025: CCISS version 13 published, using version 13 of BC Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification • Note: updated version and sub-version of all data tables are recorded in the README.md file on the ccissr GitHub repository (in the feas_tables branch, “tables” folder). ccissr/tables at feas_tables · bcgov/ccissr
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

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Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

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Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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