NSW Forest Biodiversity Model Outputs: SOMs, Maxent & NARCliM Climate Projections

Spatial outputs from Species Occupancy Models (SOM) and Maximum Entropy (Maxent) models predict probabilistic species occupancy and habitat suitability for flora and fauna in New South Wales, Australia. The dataset includes underlying survey records, environmental covariates, and climate change projections for 2030 and 2070 based on NARCliM variables. It is provided by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery platform and was last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Predicting species habitat suitability based on environmental covariates like temperature, rainfall, and topography.
• Modeling probabilistic species occupancy using Species Occupancy Models (SOM) for conservation planning.
• Projecting the impact of climate change on flora habitat suitability for years 2030 and 2070.
• Analyzing the relationship between species occurrence records and landscape variables.
• Visualizing model outputs for vulnerable flora and fauna via a linked web mapping application.

Strengths

• Includes climate change projections for future years 2030 and 2070.
• Contains both model outputs (SOM and Maxent) and the underlying survey records and covariates used to create them.
• Outputs are linked to a public web mapping application for visualization.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Combination of species occurrence records, environmental covariate analysis, and climate modeling.

Time Range

Includes a baseline year 2000 and projections for 2030 and 2070.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-13 12:11:16.754546; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia