(This dataset displays the land facet elevation class)
Land facets are a primary component in TNC’s analysis of site resilience to climate change. Their inclusion is based on the assumption that preservation of representative examples of the geophysical ‘Stage’ (ie., topo-edaphic factors) results in protection of a wider variety of species (the ‘Players’).
These data represent a land facet classification created for the Pacific Northwest Landscape Resilience project. Each Land Facet has been stratified by terrestrial ecoregions - essentially defining each combination of soil order, elevation zone and slope class as unique from that same combination in another ecoregion. A full description of the development of this dataset can be found in our report, "Conserving Nature's Stage: Identifying Resilient Terrestrial Landscapes in the Pacfic Northwest."