Name: Threatened Species Strategy Priority Species Density
Display Field: SCIENTIFIC_NAME
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: This dataset contains the number of Threatened Species Strategy priority species where they, or their habitat, are known or likely to occur in a 0.05 degree latitude/longitude grid cell containing land in Australia. It is derived from the "Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Distributions (public grids)" dataset of species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999 which contains species distributions from the Species of National Environmental Significance database after generalisation inline with the Departments Sensitive Species Policy. The "count" field contains the number of priority species occurring in the cell. The "sprat" field contains links to the species profiles in the Species Profile and Threats Database.For more information on threatened species see https://www.awe.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/publications/strategy-home and https://www.awe.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/species
Copyright Text: Department of Environment and Science, Queensland
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales
The Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate, Australian Capital Territory
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria
Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Tasmania Department for Environment and Water, South Australia
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia
Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Northern Territory
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
Australian Museum
Museum Victoria
Queensland Museum
South Australian Museum
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Western Australian Museum
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Australian National Herbarium, Atherton and Canberra
National Herbarium of NSW
Northern Territory Herbarium
Queensland Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium of Victoria
State Herbarium of South Australia
Tasmanian Herbarium
Western Australian Herbarium
Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme
Australian National Wildlife Collection
Birdlife Australia
Ocean Biogeographic Information System
Australian Government, Department of Defence
Forestry Corporation of NSW
University of New England
Geoscience Australia
CSIRO
Other groups and individuals
Description: This dataset contains the number of Ecological Communities of National Environmental Significance occurring in 0.05 degree latitude/longitude grid cells containing land in Australia. It is derived from the "Australia - Ecological Communities of National Environmental Significance Distributions (public grids)" dataset which has which has been generalized to comply with the Departments agreed use of source data.
Copyright Text: Department of Environment and Science, Queensland
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales
The Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate, Australian Capital Territory
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria
Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Tasmania
Department for Environment and Water, South Australia
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia
Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Northern Territory
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
Australian Museum
Museum Victoria
Queensland Museum
South Australian Museum
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Western Australian Museum
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Australian National Herbarium, Atherton and Canberra
National Herbarium of NSW
Northern Territory Herbarium
Queensland Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium of Victoria
State Herbarium of South Australia
Tasmanian Herbarium
Western Australian Herbarium
Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme
Australian National Wildlife Collection
Birdlife Australia
Ocean Biogeographic Information System
Australian Government, Department of Defence
Forestry Corporation of NSW
University of New England
Geoscience Australia
CSIRO
Other groups and individuals
Description: This dataset represents the average of the relative nutrient loss rates due to water erosion for the three nutrients total nitrogen, total phosphorus and soil organic carbon. The dataset is masked to cropping and grazing lands. The units are percentage/year. Relative nutrient loss is calculated as the annual loss of nutrient from the top 5 cm of soil relative to the total stock of each nutrient in the full depth of the soil profile. Annual erosion rate data are from Teng et al. (2016) and soil nutrient data are from the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia. For a full description of the methods used to generate this datset see McKenzie et al. (2017).To present the average relative nutrient loss rate data in Figure 4.5 in McKenzie et al. (2017), the data were divided into seven classes using percentiles as the class breaks. That is, 20 % of the grid cells fell into each of the first four classes, 10 % of the grid cells into the fifth class, and 5 % into each of the sixth and seventh classes. The actual average nutrient loss rate values which represent those class breaks are listed below:0-20th percentile: < 0.003 %/y20-40th percentile: 0.003 - 0.005 %/y40-60th percentile: 0.005 - 0.009 %/y60-80th percentile: 0.009 - 0.019 %/y80-90th percentile: 0.019 - 0.045 %/y90-95th percentile: 0.045 - 0.098 %/y95-100th percentile: > 0.098 %/y
Copyright Text: Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
Description: This dataset is a ranking of estimated wind erosion risk for agricultural lands. Agricultural lands are defined here as those areas under cropping and grazing. The dataset was created in a multi-criteria analysis by combining (i) a modelled map of wind erosion severity for the period 2000 to 2010, (ii) an index map of the total soil nutrient loss, and (iii) maps of ‘room for improvement’ in ground cover management on agricultural lands within natural resource management (NRM) regions. It was developed to be used with a priority ranking for each NRM region to locate where in a NRM region the wind erosion investment area is and its priority. Definition of classes 1. Low risk of wind erosion for agricultural land 2. Moderate risk of wind erosion for agricultural land 3. High risk of wind erosion for agricultural land Detail on how the dataset was created is in Leys et al. (2017).
Copyright Text: This dataset was produced using the MCAS-S Tool version 3.2. Its development was jointly funded by NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and the Australian Government’s National Landcare Programme as part of a Grant from the Department of Agriculture and Water and Environment entitled "Wind erosion assessment".
Description: An index of the risk of soil acidification based only on soil characteristics and current land use has been calculated using the following indicators. 1. Lime requirements (LR, 5 classes) – calculated using the current pH and buffering capacity (see Figure 2.4). 2. The likely NAAR – estimated using the classes defined by the provisional NAAR ranking (see Table 2.3) and mapped using the Australian Land Use and Management Classification (Table 2.4) (5 classes ) (see Figure 2.5) This spatial layer is the result of combining thesetwo indices according to Table 2.4.Soil acidification is likely to be a problem in areas with a high risk ranking. This is useful for framing priorities for interventions but the map provides no information on the effectiveness of current land management. This important consideration is much harder to determine. Risk of Acidification values: 1 = Low, 2 = Medium, 3 = High risk
Copyright Text: Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
Description: The Potential Capability Index summarizes the potential for enhancing soil carbon. It was calculated according to the Equationbelow. Areas with a Carbon Capacity Index equal to one have a limited capacity to store additional carbon and they have a default allocation to Class 1 as a result. ������������������������������������������ = 1, ��ℎ���������������������������������������������������� = 1 �������������������������������������������������������� = �������������������������� + �������������������������������� + ����������������������������������������
Copyright Text: CSIRO
Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources