The Threat of the Death Cap in Southwest British Columbia
Data Sources
In order to map the sites of Death Caps recorded, and carry out an MCE and Maxent analysis in Vancouver and British Columbia, it was necessary to obtain key data from a range of different sources, as listed below (with hyperlinks to the respective sources).
Betulus Tree Data File with Amanita Sites Observed - 2018
Notably, data was obtained from Vivian Miao, who works with the BC Centre for Disease Control. An excel sheet with the Amanita Sites recorded in the city was obtained, with the respective TREE ID locations. Furthermore, an excel document with UBC Accession Fruiting numbers and their corresponding TREE IDs was also made available. ​​
BC Data Catalogue - 2016 - Retrieved 2016
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Canadian Census Analyser - 2016 - Retrieved 2018
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2016 census tract - Ethnic Origin attribute table (Excel file)
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2016 census tract – Age Attribute Table – 0 to 14 years old (Excel file)
CGIAR-CSI - 2010 - Retrieved 2018
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Data downloaded for soil moisture and evapotranspiration
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Global High-Resolution Soil Water Balance
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Attributed to: Trabucco, A., and Zomer, R.J. 2010. Global Soil Water Balance Geospatial Database. CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information. Published online, available from the CGIAR-CSI GeoPortal at: http://www.cgiar-csi.org
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Metro Vancouver - 2011 - Retrieved 2018
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Generalized Land Use Classification
Statistics Canada
UBC Geography Lab Database - Retrieved 2018
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Soil data
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BC Shape File
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Vegetation Cover
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Landuse data
Vancouver - Open Data Catalogue - Retrieved 2018
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Data was downloaded in a CVS format for the following:
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Schools
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Community Centres
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Community Gardens and Food Trees
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Data was downloaded in a Shapefile format for the following:
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General population data
WorldClim - Global Climate Data - Retrieved 2018
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Environmental layers including temperature and precipitation data​​
Softwares used:
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ArcGIS 10.5.1.
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ArcMap Online
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MaxEnt