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Biodiversity Guidebook Table of Contents]

Acronyms used in this guidebook

NDT – natural disturbance type
NDT1 – ecosystems with rare stand-initiating events
NDT2 – ecosystems with infrequent stand-initiating events
NDT3 – ecosystems with frequent stand-initiating events
NDT4 – ecosystems with frequent stand-maintaining fires
NDT5 – alpine tundra and subalpine parkland

AT – Alpine Tundra
BG – Bunchgrass
BSBW – Boreal White and Black Spruce
CDF – Coastal Douglas-fir
CWH – Coastal Western Hemlock
ESSF – Engelmann Spruce–Subalpine Fir
ICH – Interior Cedar Hemlock
IDF – Interior Douglas-fir
MH – Mountain Hemlock
MS – Montane Spruce
PP – Ponderosa Pine
SBPS – Sub-Boreal Pine-Spruce
SBS – Sub-Boreal Spruce
SWB – Spruce–Willow–Birch

FEN – forest ecosystem network
OGMA – old-growth management area
OPR – operational planning regulation
PNC – potential natural community
RMA – riparian management area
WHA – wildlife habitat areas
WTP – wildlife tree patches


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