Potential Threatened Box Gum Woodland Distribution in ACT

ONC Maps and Data provides a spatial layer mapping the potential distribution of threatened Box Gum Grassy Woodland ecological communities in the Australian Capital Territory. The data identifies areas for Yellow box-Blakely's red gum grassy woodland, listed as Endangered, and White box - Yellow box - Blakely's red gum grassy woodland, listed as Critically Endangered. It serves as a guide for site assessments required to confirm community condition based on ground layer and forb diversity.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial overlap between mapped potential distribution polygons and other land-use datasets to assess conservation priorities.
• Use the polygon data to identify field survey sites for inspecting ground layer and forb diversity as required by the community listing criteria.
• Model habitat connectivity for the Critically Endangered White box - Yellow box - Blakely's red gum grassy woodland community using the potential distribution layer.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Office of Nature Conservation (ONC Maps and Data) within the ACT Government.
• Specifically maps two distinct threatened ecological communities with different conservation statuses (Endangered and Critically Endangered).
• Layer contains the most current information as of its last update in March 2026.

Limitations

• The data represents potential distribution only; actual community presence requires ground-truthing due to condition-based listing criteria.
• No quantitative metadata (row count, column count, file size) is provided in the input to assess scale or structure.
• Available file format is HTML, which may not be a standard geospatial format for direct GIS analysis without extraction.

Provenance

Source

ONC Maps and Data | Office of Nature Conservation, ACT Government Open Data.

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory (ACT).