Climate Change Corridors (Dry Habitat) for North East NSW

Dataset Description Contents

General Properties	Data Theme
Resource Dataset Details	Reference System Information
Key Dates	Spatial Domain
Data Quality	Temporal Extent of the Data
Data Status and Maintenance	Distribution Information
Spatial Resolution	Metadata Contact Information
Browse Graphic	Metadata Reference Information

Note: this dataset decsription is metadata (data about data) which describes the actual dataset in accordance with the ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata.

General Properties

Title:   Climate Change Corridors (Dry Habitat) for North East NSW

Alternative title:   DRY_HA_CC_CORRIDORS

Metadata file identifier:   {F5A7EDC9-C834-4BCC-A094-8B592D4A8ECD}

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Scope of resource described by metadata:   dataset

Resource Dataset Details

Abstract:   The data integrates best available information to delineate broad wildlife corridors, for fauna occupying dry habitat, along climatic gradients. The objective of the layer is to best delineate large-scale wildlife corridors that are significant for wildlife adaptation to the threatening processes of climate change. The work has been based on key habitat habitats (Scotts, 2003), vegetation mapping layers and NSW Wildlife Atlas and YETI databases to represent areas of the landscape that contain high conservation values and high fauna corridor values.

Purpose:   This project was commissioned by the Conservation Partnerships, Parks and Wildlife Division to identify land areas to develop a strategic approach to the establishment of protected areas on private and other public lands that complements the public reserve system and enhances the CAR design principles such as representation, adequacy and comprehensiveness. The strategy will be based on improving connectivity to address potential impact of climate change. The identification of wildlife corridors for climate change will contribute to the conservation and protection of landscape scale climate change corridors. The project has strong links to the recently announced “Alps to Atherton” (A to A) Climate Change Corridor and is essentially a finer scale interpretation of the A to A concept and function at a regional scale.

Jurisdiction:   NSW,    Australia

Custodian organisation:   NSW Department of Environment,Climate Change and Water (DECCW)

Key Dates

2003-01-01creation 2010-07-23publication 2011-08-04revision

Metadata statement update date: 2010-09-10

Data Quality

Lineage:   The Climate Change Corridors layer was primarily delineated by using a visual assessment of the landscape based on the spatial mapping of dry fauna assemblage corridors as derived by the existing Key Habitats and Corridors for forest fauna (Scotts, 2003). Fauna assemblages were grouped together to best represent general climatic corridors significant for dry habitat assemblages. The initial design was then refined and analysed using DEC vegetation mapping layers:- Northern Rivers CMA mapping (Ecological ,2005), Forest Ecosystem Mapping (NPWS, 1999) NSW Atlas records, YETI database and visual checking using SPOT5 (2005) satellite imagery. This stage of the project refined the boundaries of the broad corridors and assessed the significance of the corridors for forest fauna that were considered vulnerable to climate change effects. A process of expert review was carried out on the first output from the process with consideration of projected climate change effects. Positional Accuracy: 1km to 10 km Attribute Accuracy: The product is based on existing desk top data (best available). No ground truthing of the attributes has been carried out. Much of the information is derived through analysis of existing data products and expert review of those products and decision making. Therefore it is likely that some area may be subject to review if adequate field checking were to be made. The data represents a regional scale assessment of landscapes in terms of their benefit to wildlife ecology and landscape connectivity. Logical Consistency: Logical Consistency checks were done at various scales using ArcView GIS for all linework and attributes. All values and information is presented consistently and to specified standards and groups. Completeness: The data layer is complete to the boundaries of the study area - NRCMA + HCRCMA regions. Equivalent to and slightly beyond the EPRD North-east Branch jurisdiction.

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Attribute accuracy:    The product is based on existing desk top data (best available). No ground truthing of the attributes has been carried out. Much of the information is derived through analysis of existing data products and expert review of those products and decision making. Therefore it is likely that some area may be subject to review if adequate field checking were to be made. The data represents a regional scale assessment of landscapes in terms of their benefit to wildlife ecology and landscape connectivity.

Data Status and Maintenance

Status:   completed
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Resource update frequency:   notPlanned
Resource update date:   2010-01-10

Spatial Resolution

Scale: 1:0
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Data Theme

Theme topics:
nsw - ECOLOGY -

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Reference System Information

Reference system: GDA94 / Geographic

Spatial Domain

West Bounding Longitude:   149.62912
South Bounding Longitude:   -33.569333
East Bounding Longitude:   153.300222
North Bounding Longitude:   -28.460652

Temporal Extent of the Data

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Instant date: 2003-01-01

Distribution Information

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Download URL:     http://mapdata.environment.nsw.gov.au/DDWA
Data size:,

Distribution contacts:
Position name:   Data Broker
Organisation:   NSW Department of Environment,Climate Change and Water (DECCW)
Address:PO Box 3720, Parramatta, NSW, 2124
Voice:   02 6740 2349                    Fax:   02 6742 3129
Email:   data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au