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GEOSS Ecosystem Mapping for Australia

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The physical drivers of ecosystem formation – macroclimate, lithology and landform – along with vegetation structural formations are key determinants of current ecosystem type. Each combination of these ecosystem drivers – each ‘ecological facet’ – provides a unique set of opportunities and challenges for life. Management and conservation should seek to understand and take in to account these drivers of ecosystem formation. By understanding the unique combinations of these drivers management strategies can plan for their full range of variation, and conservation efforts can ensure that unique ecosystems are not lost. Unfortunately, there is currently no Australia-wide standardized map of ecological facets at management-appropriate scales. By understanding the magnitude and distribution of unique combinations of these drivers, management strategies can plan for their full range of variation, and conservation efforts can ensure that unique ecosystems are not lost. Additionally, by improving our understanding of the past and present conditions that have given rise to current ecological facets this dataset could facilitate future predictive environmental modelling. Finally, this data could assisting biodiversity conservation, climate change impact studies and mitigation, ecosystem services assessment, and development planning Further information about the dataset can be found at GEOSS Ecosystem Map,TERN Knowledge Base .

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Title GEOSS Ecosystem Mapping for Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/048ec0d9-1bd7-44bd-9a6e-5b781edfe038
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
kenneth.clarke@adelaide.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/1976 - 01/01/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        113.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        113.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        113.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "GEOSS Ecosystem Mapping for Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geoss-ecosystem-mapping-for-australia