Cherry birch (Betula lenta) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Cherry Birch in Canada
Table of contents
- COSEWIC assessment summary
- COSEWIC executive summary
- COSEWIC history, mandate, membership and definitions
- Lists of figures and tables
- Species information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population sizes and trends
- Limiting factors and threats
- Special significance of the species
- Existing protection or other status designations
- Technical summary
- Acknowledgements and authorities contacted
- Information sources, Biographical summary of report writer and Collections examined
COSEWIC
assessment and status report
on the
Cherry Birch
Betula lenta
in Canada
Endangered
2006
COSEWIC
Committee on the status
of endangered wildlife
in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2006. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the cherry birch Betula lenta in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 16 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
Production note:
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge John D. Ambrose for writing the status report on the cherry birch Betula lenta in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by Erich Haber, Co-chair (Vascular Plants), COSEWIC Plants and Lichens Species Specialist Subcommittee.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: (819) 997-4991 / (819) 953-3215
Fax: (819) 994-3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le bouleau flexible (Betula lenta) au Canada.
Cover illustration:
Cherry birch -- Image from Britton and Brown, 1913.
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2006
Catalogue No. CW69-14/467-2006E-PDF
ISBN 0-662-43238-X
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