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

Modelling of landscape capacity for 75 landscape-managed NSW threatened species across four epochs: 1750, 2000, 2030, and 2070. The dataset comprises individual species models and consensus maps based on NARCliM 1.0 climate projections, produced by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. It includes multi-species refugia maps and two-page forecast summaries for each species.

Use Cases

• Identify climate refugia for threatened frog species based on projected landscape capacity maps.
• Model changes in habitat usability over time based on climate-informed landscape capacity rasters.
• Compare species-specific forecasts across 12 climate models for the 2070 epoch.
• Assess landscape connectivity for species movement based on habitat quality and accessibility metrics.

Strengths

• Covers 75 threatened species, providing a broad ecological scope.
• Includes projections for four distinct time epochs spanning from 1750 to 2070.
• Provides consensus maps derived from 12 climate models for the 2070 future scenario.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The individual species geotiff files are grouped into large zip files which may take considerable time to download.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Outputs of the Persistence in the Landscape Project (PLP), using NARCliM (v1.0) climate futures for modelling.

Time Range

1750, 2000, 2030, 2070

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 17:42:08.929483; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia