Climate Change Corridors for Nandewar & New England Tablelands

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 for Nandewar & New England Tablelands

Alternative title:   Wildlife Corridors for Climate Change - Nandewar & Northern Tablelands

Metadata file identifier:   {AF750098-B3ED-428F-AEB2-B4B48330E4DB}

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Scope of resource described by metadata:   dataset

Resource Dataset Details

Abstract:   Mapping of corridors that may significant for buffering fauna from the impacts of Climate Change. Mapping based on a rapid desktop assessment. The data integrates best available information to delineate broad wildlife corridors 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 best available key habitat habitat, vegetation and corridors map layers and therefore represents 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 for strategic establishment of Voluntary Conservation Agreements (VCA) and other private land conservation mechanisms to conserve critical areas within a network of large scale climate change corridors in the Northern Tablelands and Nandewar bioregions. The project has strong links to the “Alps to Atherton” (A2A) Climate Change Corridor and can be viewed as a regional interpretation of the A2A concept and function.

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:   Climate Change corridors were primarily delineated by using a visual assessment of the landscape based on the spatial mapping of fauna corridors and key habitats as derived by Key Habitats and Corridors for forest fauna (Scotts, D 2003). Scotts (2003) and Key Habitats and Corridors for Nandewar (Andren 2004). An initial cut of areas was then refined and analysed using habitat models (Scotts, 2003), habitat quality models (Scotts, 2003), vegetation mapping (DECC 2004), altals records and visual checking using SPOT5 satellite imagery (2005). 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. Positional Accuracy: Unknown Attribute Accuracy: The product is based on existing desk top data (best avaialbable). No groundtruthing 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 - The Nandewar and New England Tablelands bio-regions - plus some small additional areas as a buffer to this study area.

Scope:   dataset

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Attribute accuracy:    The product is based on existing desk top data (best avaialbable). No groundtruthing 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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Theme topics:
nsw - ECOLOGY -

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Reference System Information

Reference system: GDA94 / Geographic

Spatial Domain

West Bounding Longitude:   149.944479
South Bounding Longitude:   -31.653969
East Bounding Longitude:   152.241312
North Bounding Longitude:   -28.574455

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