Climate-Informed Landscape Capacity for 75 Threatened Bird Species in NSW

75 threatened bird species in New South Wales have their landscape capacity modeled across four epochs: 1750, 2000, 2030, and 2070. The dataset includes individual species models, consensus maps across 12 climate models for 2070, and multi-species refugia maps, produced by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The data was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify climate refugia for threatened species based on modeled landscape capacity across time.
• Forecast changes in habitat suitability for specific bird species under future climate scenarios.
• Analyze landscape connectivity and habitat quality for species movement and population support.
• Compare species distribution models from pre-industrial (1750) to future (2070) epochs.
• Assess multi-species conservation priorities by overlaying refugia and landscape capacity maps.

Strengths

• Models 75 specific threatened bird species, including Dusky Woodswallow and Rufous Scrub-bird.
• Provides projections for four distinct time epochs spanning over 300 years.
• Includes consensus maps derived from 12 different climate models for the 2070 future scenario.
• Outputs are part of the Persistence in the Landscape Project (PLP) with a detailed project report.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The individual species GeoTIFF files are grouped into large zip files that may take considerable time to download.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Climate-informed modeling of landscape capacity using NARCliM (v1.0) climate futures.

Time Range

1750, 2000, 2030, 2070

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 01:52:58.130275; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia