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Description

The spatial layers in this dataset detail forest connectivity over NSW. Forest Connectivity accounts for the general quality of terrestrial habitats supporting biodiversity at each location, the fragmentation of habitat within its neighbourhood and how its position in the landscape contributes to connectivity among the habitats across a region.
Forest canopy cover connectivity and fragmentation is concerned and linked to forest condition. Concepts applied are to be aligned with definitions as found in the Biodiversity Indicator Program (BIP) and the Spatial Links methodology for calculating connectivity.
Base cover extent grids used are from the NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program Statewide Historic Forest Cover Extent – 1995 to 2020 product. These have been processed through a series of land use and vegetation type exclusion masking and a through a fuzzy-logic based certainty analysis to reflect a forest cover extent coverage for NSW that is reflective of past and current coverage.
Read more about the project on the Natural Resources Commission website:
https://www.nrc.nsw.gov.au/fmip-baselines-ecosystem-health-projectfe1
This dataset supersedes "NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Connectivity – 1995 to 2019". https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/23696.

Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
The dataset is owned by NSW Natural Resources Commission. Spatial Vision established the method and initial application of creation of historic baselines.

Purpose
This dataset was created for the NSW Natural Resources Commission to detail historic baseline and trends of forest connectivity for NSW for all land tenures, including all RFAs and IFOAs.

Data Processing
This dataset contains spatial layers in raster format (geotiff).

Lineage

For methodology information, see the report attached under 'Data access'

Temporal coverage

From 1/1/1995 to 1/1/2020

Dates

Creation date

1/1/1995

Publication date

1/3/2024

Revision date

4/30/2024

Citation information

How to cite this collection:

Natural Resources Commission, N. S. W. G. (2024): NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program State-wide Historic Forest Connectivity - 1995 to 2020. Version 1. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.25901/xjq7-gy79

Access data

These data can be accessed from following links:

Access metadata

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Parent Dataset

NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Connectivity - 1995 to 2019

Rights and Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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