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Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA), Version 7
(Regions)
- Creation Date: 19950101
- Revision Date: 20120418
- Presentation format: digital map
- Unique resource identifier:
- Party responsible for the resource:
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- Organisation's name: Australian Government Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
- Contact's position: Metadata Publisher
- Contact's role: custodian
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- Contact information:
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- Phone:
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- Voice: (02) 6274 1111
- Fax: (02) 6274 1333
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- Address:
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- Delivery point: GPO Box 787
- City: CANBERRA
- Administrative area: ACT
- Postal code: 2601
- Country: Australia
- e-mail address: metadata@environment.gov.au
- Party responsible for the resource:
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- Organisation's name: Australian Government Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
- Contact's position: Metadata Publisher
- Contact's role: publisher
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- Contact information:
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- Phone:
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- Voice: (02) 6274 1111
- Fax: (02) 6274 1333
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- Address:
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- Delivery point: GPO Box 787
- City: CANBERRA
- Administrative area: ACT
- Postal code: 2601
- Country: Australia
- e-mail address: metadata@environment.gov.au
- Themes or categories of the resource: environment
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- Theme keywords:
BOUNDARIES Biophysical
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- Thesaurus name:
- Title: ANZLIC Search Words
- Abstract: Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia
(IBRA) version 7.0 represents a landscape based approach to classifying the
land surface of Australia. 89 biogeographic regions and 419 sub regions have
been delineated, each reflecting a unifying set of major environmental
influences which shape the occurrence of flora and fauna and their
interaction with the physical environment across Australia and its external
territories (excluding Antarctica). IBRA Version 7.0 data consists of two
datasets. IBRA bioregions, which is a larger scale regional classification
of homogenous ecosystems, and sub regions, which are more localised. IBRA
Version 7.0 is the result of both significant changes to certain IBRA 6.1
boundaries, plus refinement of other boundaries due to better data
availability amongst some states and territories, and alterations by the
states/territories along state borders. The updated boundaries were jointly
defined by the Commonwealth, State and Territory nature and conservation
agencies. In this respect refinements were carried out to all mainland
jurisdictions with significant changes in Queensland and South Australia. In
addition the dataset was also updated to more closely conform to the
Geoscience Australia 1:100K State borders, and a standard coding/naming
convention introduced (for both regions and sub-regions) resulting in
differences to both names and codes used in earlier IBRA
Versions.
Various sources were used to delineate islands - these included
the GA100K Admin layer plus the Australian Maritime Boundaries dataset, a
Coral Sea dataset (held in ERIN) and the GA Commonwealth Fisheries 2006
dataset.
- Dataset language: English
- Dataset character set: utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format
- Update Status: completed
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- Maintenance:
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- Update frequency: as needed
- Resource constraints:
- Access constraints: Data to be available in the Public Domain
under Creative Commons by Attribution Licensing Agreement.
More
information can be found here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en
- Limitations of use: Users must attribute the Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities as the data
provider.
- Spatial representation type: vector
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- Resource format:
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- Format name: SDE Feature Class
- Format version: 1
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- Spatial resolution:
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- Dataset's scale:
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- Scale denominator: 250000
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- Resource's bounding rectangle:
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- Extent type: Full extent in decimal degrees
- Extent contains the resource: Yes
- West longitude: 167.998140
- East longitude: 167.998140
- North latitude: -9.141290
- South latitude: -54.776993
- Supplemental information: to be published externally
- Credits: The IBRA 7 update program was coordinated by Auricht
Projects in cooperation with Australian Government and State/Territory
environment and conservation agencies.
- Point of contact:
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- Organisation's name: Australian Government Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
- Contact's position: Parks Data Manager
- Contact's role: point of contact
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- Contact information:
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- Phone:
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- Voice: 02 6274 1111
- Fax: 02 6274 1666
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- Address:
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- Delivery point: GPO Box 787
- City: Canberra
- Administrative area: ACT
- Postal code: 2601
- Country: Australia
- e-mail address: parks.metadata@environment.gov.au
- Spatial Representation:
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- Spatial Representation - Vector:
- Reference System Information:
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- Reference system identifier:
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- Value: GCS_GDA_1994
- Data Quality Information:
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- Scope of quality information: dataset
- Lineage:
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States and Territories provided the base data for inclusion in IBRA
Version 7 Auricht Projects then undertook spatial refinements of the
boundaries to ensure that edgematching of boundaries were to the state
borders and coastline. The Geoscience Australia 1:100,000 dataset was used
to maintain this standard. Draft outputs were provided to State/Territory
Agencies for cross-checking. Final checking of topology was undertaken by
the Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment,
Water, Population and Communities.
- Source data acknowledgements:
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- SA: Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR); WA:
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC); NT: Department of
Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport (NRETAS); NSW: Office
of Environment and Heritage (OEH); Vic: Department of Sustainability and
Environment (DSE); Tas: Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and
Environment (DPIPWE); QLD: On 30 March 2012 the Queensland Government
announced machinery-of-government changes for departments. The functions
of the former Department of Environment and Resource Management will now
be delivered by the following departments: Department of Environment and
Heritage Protection, Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Department
of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing, Department of Energy and
Water Supply, Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation
and the Arts
- Data quality report - Absolute external positional accuracy:
Less than two kilometres in most areas of Australia. Generally, the
data is accurate to at least 1:250,000
- Data quality report - Attribute accuracy:
The naming of regions is the responsibility of individual
jurisdictions. The naming of those regions that cross state/territory
boundaries is decided on agreement with those jurisdictions in question.
The two IBRA datasets (bioregions and sub-regions) contain the following
attributes:
REG_CODE_7 – Alphabetic identifier for the IBRA
region; REG_NAME_7 - The full name of the IBRA region; AREA – Area in
Metres; HECTARES – Area in Hectares; SQ_KM – Square Kilometres ; REC_ID –
Numeric identifier for the IBRA region; REG_CODE_6 – Alphabetic identifier
of the previous IBRA6.1 region; REG_NAME_6 - The full name of the previous
IBRA6.1 region; REG_NO_61 – Numeric identifier of the previous IBRA6.1
region; STATE - Abbreviation of State or Territory
- Data quality report - Conceptual consistency:
ERIN undertook a systematic process to ensure all spatial and non
spatial data was correctly compiled. This included checking for label
errors and also for removing over-shoots and under-shoots in relation to
the state borders.
- Data quality report - Completeness:
The data is complete for IBRA version 7. Further refinement will be
carried out to improve border regions in time.
- Distribution Information:
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- Organisation's name: Australian Government Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
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- Available format:
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- Format name: Shapefile
- Format version: 1
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- Transfer options:
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- Online source:
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- Online location: Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for
Australia (IBRA), Version 7 (Regions)
- Description: Offline Data
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- Online source:
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- Online location: Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia
(IBRA), Version 7 (Regions)
- Description: Downloadable Data
Metadata Information:
Metadata language: eng
Metadata character set: utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format
- Last update: 20120823
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- Metadata contact:
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- Organisation's name: Australian Government Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
- Contact's position: Parks Data Manager
- Contact's role: point of contact
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- Contact information:
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- Phone:
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- Voice: 02 6274 1111
- Fax: 02 6274 1666
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- Address:
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- Delivery point: GPO Box 787
- City: Canberra
- Administrative area: ACT
- Postal code: 2601
- Country: Australia
- e-mail address: parks.metadata@environment.gov.au
- Name of the metadata standard used: ANZLIC Metadata Profile
- Version of the metadata standard: 1.1
- Metadata identifier: 9160a112-85d6-4240-855a-9667ef63deb4