EAUBC Rivers

River and Lake Ecosystem Types nest within both Ecological Drainage Units and Freshwater Ecoregions. They are therefore defined by zoogeographic, physiographic and climatic patterns but also take into account more localized physical habitat and dominant environmental processes that shape freshwater ecosystems. The units of analysis for river ecosystems in BC are at a scale of 1:50,000. Biological information is sparse at this scale of the classification and is therefore not explicitly used to delineate ecosystem types. However, fish assemblages can be inferred for each Ecosystem Type based on the Ecological Drainage Unit it is nested within. Eleven River Ecosystem Types and twenty-three River Ecosystem Sub-Types are identified in BC. In total, 18,100 watershed units are used in the classification of River Ecosystem Types.

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• Canada
• EAUBC
• EDU
• Ecological Aquatic...
• Ecoregion
• Nature Conservancy...
• River
• aquatic classification
• assemblage
• climatic
• ecological aquatic units
• ecological drainage units
• ecosystem
• fish
• freshwater
• freshwater classification
• physiographic
• rivers
• zoogeographic

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Last Updated	October 19, 2025, 23:24 (UTC)
Created	October 19, 2025, 23:24 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	EAUBC Rivers
Description A description of the dataset.	River and Lake Ecosystem Types nest within both Ecological Drainage Units and Freshwater Ecoregions. They are therefore defined by zoogeographic, physiographic and climatic patterns but also take into account more localized physical habitat and dominant environmental processes that shape freshwater ecosystems. The units of analysis for river ecosystems in BC are at a scale of 1:50,000. Biological information is sparse at this scale of the classification and is therefore not explicitly used to delineate ecosystem types. However, fish assemblages can be inferred for each Ecosystem Type based on the Ecological Drainage Unit it is nested within. Eleven River Ecosystem Types and twenty-three River Ecosystem Sub-Types are identified in BC. In total, 18,100 watershed units are used in the classification of River Ecosystem Types.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Canada EAUBC EDU Ecological Aquatic... Ecoregion Nature Conservancy... River aquatic classification assemblage climatic ecological aquatic units ecological drainage units ecosystem fish freshwater freshwater classification physiographic rivers zoogeographic
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.	2014-12-11
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.	Access Only
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/eaubc-rivers
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Knowledge Management
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Craig Mount
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
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
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.
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
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Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
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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