Climate-Informed Landscape Capacity for 75 NSW Threatened Species, 1750-2070

75 landscape-managed threatened species in New South Wales are modelled for habitat capacity across four time epochs. The dataset includes individual species models for 1750, 2000, 2030, and 2070, plus consensus maps from 12 climate models for 2070. It is an output of the Persistence in the Landscape Project (PLP) by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Use Cases

• Identify climate refugia for conservation planning based on multi-species refugia maps.
• Project future habitat suitability for specific species based on individual model GeoTIFFs for 2030 and 2070.
• Analyze changes in landscape capacity over time based on maps spanning from pre-industrial (1750) to future (2070) epochs.

Strengths

• Models for 75 distinct threatened species provide a broad ecological scope.
• Includes projections for four specific time epochs (1750, 2000, 2030, 2070) enabling temporal analysis.
• Consensus maps aggregate results from 12 separate climate models for the 2070 future scenario.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing solely on New South Wales, Australia.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Collection Method

Climate-informed modelling using NARCliM (v1.0) climate futures, as described in the linked project report.

Time Range

1750 to 2070

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 02:21:18.626129; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia