Native Vegetation Management Benefits - Landscape benefits

Brief description

Landscape benefits (aka consolidate benefit) mapping highlights areas where conservation of existing vegetation, condition improvement of degraded vegetation, or rehabilitation of cleared areas are most likely to contribute to maintaining and enhancing connectivity across a region

This layer is one of four approaches to vegetation management, comprising:

- [*Manage benefits*](https://iar.environment.nsw.gov.au/dataset/native-vegetation-management-nvm---manage-benefits9c71e) highlights remaining examples of highly cleared vegetation types
- [*Improve benefits*](https://iar.environment.nsw.gov.au/dataset/native-vegetation-management-nvm---improve-benefitsaaf8c) highlights where remaining examples of highly cleared vegetation types can be improved in condition
- [*Restore benefits*](https://iar.environment.nsw.gov.au/dataset/native-vegetation-management-nvm---revegetate-benefits1d347) highlights where to restore highly cleared vegetation types in cleared landscapes
- [*Landscape benefits*](https://iar.environment.nsw.gov.au/dataset/native-vegetation-management-nvm---landscape-value-mapping-benefitsbb846) highlights areas that contribute to the connectivity between extant native vegetation. Includes existing vegetation and locations to restore lost linkages

### Version 1.0 (2012)
produced for the Draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy (see [this report](https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/biodiversity/120905NVMTecRep.pdf)). Data is relevant to 2012
### Version 1.1 (2017)
produced for data relevant to 2013
### Further updates
Native vegetation benefits data is periodically updated with current data and improved methods. For the current recommended data see [NVMB Series 2](https://iar.environment.nsw.gov.au/dataset/native-vegetation-management-benefits-series-2). In latter versions (Series 2) Landscape Benefits are integrated in other benefit layers

## More information
For more detail see [the Native Vegetation Management Benefits technical report](https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-and-publications/publications-search/integrated-model-data-fusion-approach-measuring-habitat-condition-ecological-integrity-reporting) and [this scientific paper on the method](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380021003963). Climate-informed versions of the manage benefits and restore benefits (v.1) can be found [here](https://iar.environment.nsw.gov.au/dataset/data-packages-for-the-biodiversity-impacts-and-adaptation-project).