Manitoba
Habitat and Biodiversity
Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment

Farmlands in Manitoba are home to many species of native plants and wildlife, which benefit greatly from the stewardship actions of Manitoba landowners and land managers.

The Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment Tool is tailored to your location and the habitats on your land, offering stewardship opportunities that support productive and diverse ecosystems that are more resilient to climate extremes, and essential ecosystems services such as improved soil nutrients, water quality and pollination.

Canadian Forage and Grassland Association
  • Email: info@canadianfga.ca
  • Web: https://www.canadianfga.ca/
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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements and Data Sources

A committee of dedicated professionals contributed to the various developmental stages of the Manitoba HBAT+ through discussion and review. Many thanks to the Manitoba Conservation Data Centre, Manitoba Agriculture, Keystone Agricultural Producers, Manitoba Habitat Conservancy, Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada, and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). The development of the Manitoba HBAT has benefited greatly from the content and functionality of the precursive Alberta HBAT, which was used as a foundational resource. Jeff Harder (ECCC) provided database management and range maps acquisition. The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association provided national technical expertise and fostered collegial collaboration among provinces during the tool’s development process across Canada. This project has been funded by the Canada Nature Fund through Environment and Climate Change Canada. 

Public and private biodiversity data sources are (one of) the backbones of this tool and have been shared with this project in the spirit of conservation and collaboration. We further gratefully acknowledge all volunteer participants who gathered observations and data for citizen science databases.

Data Sources Used

  • Birds Life International. 2016. BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World.
  • Birds Canada. 2020. eButterfly records for Manitoba. Data accessed from NatureCounts, a node of the Avian Knowledge Network, Birds Canada. Available: http://www.naturecounts.ca/. Accessed: December 14, 2020.
  • Birds Canada. 2020. Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas. Data accessed from NatureCounts, a node of the Avian Knowledge Network, Birds Canada. Available: http://www.naturecounts.ca/. Accessed: December 16-18, 2020.
  • Birds Canada. 2020. Monarch Watch records for Manitoba. Data accessed from NatureCounts, a node of the Avian Knowledge Network, Birds Canada. Available: http://www.naturecounts.ca/. Accessed: December 14, 2020.
  • Canadian Wildlife Services
  • Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC)
  • eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relNov-2020. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Nov 2020.
  • eBird. 2020. Canada Prairies. Data accessed from NatureCounts, a node of the Avian Knowledge Network, Birds Canada. Available: http://www.naturecounts.ca/. Accessed: December 16-18, 2020
  • eBird. 2020. Canada Sensitive Records. Data accessed from NatureCounts, a node of the Avian Knowledge Network, Birds Canada. Available: http://www.naturecounts.ca/. Accessed: December 16-18, 2020
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. (22 December 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download (Birds) https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.va4kac
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. (22 December 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download (Insects, Mussels) https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.5svct5
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. (22 December 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download (Vascular and Non-vascular plants) https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.9dus72
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. (22 December 2020) GBIF Occurrence Download (Vertebrates, non-bird) https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.mqvbqp
  • Government of Northwest Territories
  • iNaturalist
  • International Union for the Conservation of Nature 2021. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2020-1. <https://www.iucnredlist.org> Accessed February 2021.
  • Larrivee M., S. Charest & A.-P. Drapeau Picard. 2019. Mission Monarch: a citizen science project to document monarch breeding. http://www.mission-monarch.org (Accessed Decemebr 14, 2020).
  • Manitoba Chimney Swift Initiative
  • Manitoba Conservation Data Center, Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development. 2020.
  • Manitoba Conservation. 2008. Manitoba Nocturnal Owls Survey. Data accessed from NatureCounts, a node of the Avian Knowledge Network, Birds Canada. Available: http://www.naturecounts.ca/. Accessed: December 16-18, 2020.
  • Manitoba Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Natural Resources
  • Manitoba Habitat Conservancy
  • Nature Conservancy Canada
  • NatureServe
  • Reseau Canadien Chauve-souris aux abris/Neighbourhood Bat Watch Research Network. 2021. https://chauve-souris.ca/ and https://batwatch.ca.
  • Westwood, R., A.R. Westwood, M. Hooshmandi, K. Pearson, K. LaFrance, and C. Murray. 2020. A field-validated species distribution model to support management of the critically endangered Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek) butterfly in Canada. Conservation Science and Practice. 15pp + Appencies. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.163
  • Whiting, A.

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Farmlands in Manitoba are home to many species of native plants and wildlife, which benefit greatly from the stewardship actions of Manitoba landowners and land managers.

The Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment Tool is tailored to your location and the habitats on your land, offering stewardship opportunities that support productive and diverse ecosystems that are more resilient to climate extremes, and essential ecosystems services such as improved soil nutrients, water quality and pollination.

Canadian Forage and Grassland Association
  • Email: info@canadianfga.ca
  • Web: https://www.canadianfga.ca/