Climate-Informed Landscape Capacity for 75 NSW Threatened Mammals

1750 to 2070 projections of landscape capacity for 75 threatened mammal species in New South Wales, Australia. The dataset includes individual species models for four historical and future epochs, consensus maps for 2070, and multi-species refugia maps, produced by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Outputs are based on NARCliM (v1.0) climate futures and were last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify climate refugia for threatened species based on multi-species landscape capacity maps.
• Model changes in habitat usability over time using projections for 1750, 2000, 2030, and 2070.
• Assess landscape capacity for specific species like the Spotted-tailed Quoll or Southern Greater Glider.
• Compare species forecasts across 12 different climate models for the 2070 epoch.

Strengths

• Covers 75 threatened mammal species in New South Wales.
• Includes projections for four distinct time epochs spanning from 1750 to 2070.
• Provides consensus maps derived from 12 climate models for 2070.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• File sizes are described as large, which may complicate download and processing.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing solely on NSW, Australia.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Climate-informed modelling outputs from the Persistence in the Landscape Project (PLP).

Time Range

1750 to 2070

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 22:43:11.381835; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia