Australian Soil Bacteria and Fungi Beta Diversity Maps at 90-Meter Resolution

Version 1 of the Soil Bacteria and Fungi Beta Diversity product from the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia. It contains six raster maps at a 3 arc-second resolution, covering approximately the period from 1950 to 2022. The maps were produced by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery using Digital Soil Mapping methods.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil microbial community patterns based on beta diversity estimates.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between soil biodiversity and landscape features.
• Integrating microbial diversity data with other environmental layers for ecological research.
• Assessing changes in soil microbiome composition across different Australian regions.

Strengths

• High spatial resolution of approximately 90 meters per pixel.
• Covers a long temporal period from approximately 1950 to 2022.
• Large data volume with over 2 billion pixels per layer.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2026-06-10.
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source platform.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Generated using Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) methods.

Time Range

1950-2022 (approximately)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-10 19:18:34.361875

Geography

Australia