The ABMI Wall-to-Wall Land Cover Inventory is a polygon-based representation of the types and extent of broad land cover classes (e.g. water, grassland, and mixed forest) in Alberta.

This product displays the amount and location of native vegetation (i.e. areas not visibly disturbed by humans) at different distances (buffers) from human footprint.

Effective mesh size—a measure of fragmentation—displays the amount and configuration of native vegetation in Alberta, identifying larger, more connected habitat patches compared to smaller, more fragmented patches.

Habitat use for many species is directly affected by topography. Thus topographic information was used by ABMI when modeling variation in species abundance throughout Alberta.

The ABMI Detailed Wall-to-Wall Land Cover Map is a comprehensive representation of upland and lowland vegetation types and the extent of their coverage in Alberta.