Lakes of Biological Significance: Minnesota Full Details

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Title:

Lakes of Biological Significance: Minnesota

Description:

This layer shows lakes meeting criteria for Lakes of Biological Significance (LBS) in Minnesota. Lakes were identified and classified by DNR subject matter experts on objective criteria for four community types (aquatic plants, fish, amphibians, birds). Unique plant or animal presence was the primary measure of a lake's biological significance. Lakes were rated and grouped for each of the following communities: aquatic plants, fish, birds, and amphibians. Lakes were assigned one of three biological significance classes (outstanding, high, or moderate), which are defined in Section 5: Attributes (below). Many Minnesota lakes have not been sampled for plants and/or animals, so this list of lakes will be periodically revised as additional biological data become available. The goal of this list was to identify lakes that exhibit the highest quality features within any of the four assessed biological communities (as opposed to identification of lakes that exhibit diversity across communities). Therefore, a lake needed to meet criteria for only one of the community types (aquatic plants, fish, birds, amphibians) to be identified as a Lake of Biological Significance. Occurrences of high-quality features within the community types determined the biological significance rank. For a detailed description of criteria and analysis used, see: Lakes of Biological Significance_20200707 (pdf, 50k)

Creator:

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) - Ecological and Water Resources (EWR)

Provider:

Minnesota Geospatial Commons

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Vector data

Subject:

State government records

Theme:

Environment

Temporal Coverage:

2020

Date Issued:

2015-05-13

Place:

Minnesota

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile

Language:

English

Date Added:

2021-04-26