Brief description
This collection comprises account-ready data for biodiversity in the Murray-Darling Basin, developed in the ‘Ecosystem Accounts for the Murray-Darling Basin’ project, one of two Regional Ecosystem Accounting Pilot (REAP) projects delivering ecosystem accounts at sub-national scales. The account-ready data in this collection are used to compile biodiversity accounts for the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). The data provided are spatial layers of predicted status of different biodiversity features across the Murray-Darling Basin over time, prepared for use in ecosystem accounts. The biodiversity features for which account-ready data are provided are: nationally listed threatened species; waterbirds; vascular plants; reptiles; all birds; and several focal species (river red gum, lignum, royal spoonbill, straw-necked ibis). For all biodiversity features, annual patterns of expected (or potential) status were derived by combining remotely sensed data with information on expected patterns in biodiversity, incorporating field observation data. The status of all biodiversity features has been estimated annually, for each year from 2001 (or earlier) to 2018, using a common spatial grid of 100 m resolution covering the Murray-Darling Basin. These data align with other account-ready data prepared for the Murray-Darling Basin under the Regional Ecosystem Accounting Pilot projects, including for ecosystem extent, ecosystem condition and ecosystem services.Lineage: See attached document - Methods for developing account-ready data: biodiversity in the Murray-Darling Basin.
In summary, data were prepared with the objective of directly informing ecosystem accounting for the Murray-Darling Basin. Different methods were applied in developing the account-ready data for different biodiversity features, however, all data were developed using a habitat-based approach to biodiversity assessment. This habitat-based approach combines spatially complete remotely sensed data on aspects relevant to the habitat quality for different biodiversity features, with spatially complete information on expected spatial patterns for those biodiversity features. The spatial layers produced provide an indication of the expected provision of habitat for each biodiversity feature across the region of interest for each year.
The data files provided are separated by the key biodiversity features, with the data and file naming convention described in full in the attached method document.
Available: 2024-02-27
Data time period: 1995-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Subjects
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability |
Biological Sciences |
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
Community Ecology (Excl. Invasive Species Ecology) |
Conservation and Biodiversity |
Environmental Sciences |
Ecology |
Environmental Management |
SEEA EA |
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting |
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting |
biodiversity |
birds |
condition |
ecosystem accounting |
habitat |
lignum |
persistence |
plants |
reptiles |
richness |
river red gum |
royal spoonbill |
straw-necked ibis |
threatened species |
waterbirds |
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Identifiers
- DOI : 10.25919/1BHC-0V60
- Handle : 102.100.100/608745
- URL : data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:56614
