eae33a85-7a86-478c-98f4-4307a0418e36 urn:uuid en UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-12-20T19:26:15 creation ISO 19115 2016 ACTGOV Climate Refugia eae33a85-7a86-478c-98f4-4307a0418e36 ACT Climate refugia are core areas of the landscape most likely to support persistence of dominant trees, shrubs and grasses of the Capital Region under climate change. The data identify refugia expected to support climate sensitive species characteristic of each vegetation community, both now and into the future, based on distribution modelling using NARCLiM climate projections (MacKenzie et al 2019). The areas shown (refugia) highlight where the most stressed subset of dominant plant species today (i.e., common trees, shrubs and grasses modelled to lose >= 75% of their current distribution) are more likely to persist under a wide range of future climate scenarios. These refugia can be used to prioritise management actions to minimise further stresses to those communities (e.g. prescribed burning within tolerable fire intervals; climate-adaptive revegetation programs, etc). Note: Areas smaller than 0.5 hectares have been removed to enable quicker map drawing, contact officeofnatureconservation@act.gov.au for the full dataset, including ensemble forecasts for individual plant species (n=151). Source Technical Report: MacKenzie, J.B., G. Baines, L. Johnston & J. Seddon. 2019. Identifying biodiversity refugia under climate change in the ACT and region. City and Environment Directorate, ACT Government, Canberra. https://www.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/2539628/identifying-biodiversity-refugia-under-climate-change-in-the-act-and-region-2019.pdf Mapped originally in GDA1994_MGA_Zone55, transformed to GDA2020_MGA_Zone55 For use as a broad scale product, for example at 1:50,000 scale only. Please read the technical report for data caveats and limitations. {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[148.7828, -35.9247], [148.7828, -35.133], [149.3937, -35.133], [149.3937, -35.9247], [148.7828, -35.9247]]]} 148.7828 149.3937 -35.9247 -35.133 act biodiversity bog climate-change conservation ecology environment fauna flora gdc0b1360df grasslands habitat land-management nature nature-conservation-act open-data refugia science threatened vegetation-community wetlands wildlife ArcGIS Hub Dataset documentDigital HTML ArcGIS GeoService documentDigital ArcGIS GeoServices REST API CSV documentDigital CSV Shapefile documentDigital ZIP GeoJSON documentDigital GeoJSON KML documentDigital KML File Geodatabase documentDigital ZIP Feature Collection documentDigital TXT Excel documentDigital XLSX GeoPackage documentDigital GPKG SQLite Geodatabase documentDigital GDB