Potential Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Species Tolerance Grid for Victoria, Australia

A species tolerance model developed by the Arthur Rylah Institute in 2011-2012 provides a relative measure of ecosystem sensitivity to changes in groundwater availability and quality. The output is a geospatial grid for Victoria, Australia, where each map unit is assigned a tolerance value based on the median of its contributing grid cells. The dataset is provided by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and was last updated on 2026-04 27.

Use Cases

• Modeling ecosystem vulnerability to groundwater extraction based on assigned species tolerance values.
• Prioritizing conservation areas for groundwater-dependent ecosystems based on relative sensitivity scores.
• Integrating with hydrological models to assess potential impacts on ecosystems from changes in groundwater quality.

Strengths

• Model developed by the authoritative Arthur Rylah Institute in collaboration with DPI.
• Data is available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Provides a standardized relative measure of sensitivity across Victoria.

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 its focus on Victoria, Australia.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victoria, Australia).

Collection Method

Species tolerance model developed by Arthur Rylah Institute, collaborating with DPI.

Time Range

Model developed in 2011-2012.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 22:40:55.074696; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia.