Cooper Eromanga Basin Biophysical Risk - Recruitment

Created: 19 Nov 2024 Revised: 27 Mar 2025

Risk of soil moisture limitations to perennial plant species germination and recruitment events. This dataset is part of a DEW/DEM project that describes and maps the native flora and fauna communities of the Cooper-Eromanga Basin of South Australia. In past decades, regional conservation planning and environmental assessments by natural resource managers and energy industries were constrained by the lack of consistent and spatial information on the biodiversity assets of the region. Prior to this work, vegetation mapping and ecosystem information were unavailable for large portions of the region (54 000 km²), especially within Strzelecki Desert and Cooper Creek channel country. During 2016-17, this study collated biological and environmental information from government and industry sources, identified gaps in existing information, conducted new surveys in priority landscapes, analysed relationships between flora and fauna and their environment, identified dominant ecosystems (i.e. vegetation and landscapes) and their associated flora and fauna species, mapped the distribution of ecosystems, and identified areas with highest risk of disturbance (including conservation-listed species under federal and state legislation). This new information improves our understanding regional biodiversity for conservation planning and natural resource management decisions, and facilitates more efficient and scientifically-robust environmental assessments of petroleum/geothermal or pastoral development activities, and vegetation clearance/offset proposals in the region.

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About this record

Record No	mesac610
Topic	Environment
Type of Resource	Dataset
Category Type	Environmental Sciences Geospatial Information Systems Natural Resource Management
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Language	English
Metadata Standard	ISO 19115-3

Citations

Use constraints	License
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier	https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac610
Citation	Cooper Eromanga Basin Biophysical Risk - Recruitment https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac610

Technical information

Status	Completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Geographic Reference	GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
Geo bounding box	{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[141.1,-25.9],[138.9,-25.9],[138.9,-29.6],[141.1,-29.6],[141.1,-25.9]]]}
Purpose	This data is designed as an aid to improve our understanding regional biodiversity for conservation planning and natural resource management decisions. Facilitates more efficient and scientifically-robust environmental assessments of... This data is designed as an aid to improve our understanding regional biodiversity for conservation planning and natural resource management decisions. Facilitates more efficient and scientifically-robust environmental assessments of petroleum/geothermal or pastoral development activities, and vegetation clearance/offset proposals in the region. More +
Lineage	Risk Recruitment = Risk of soil moisture limitations to perennial plant species germination and recruitment events (index, low 0 - 1 high). Based on methodology described by Hobbs TJ, Armstrong D, Wenham D, Howell S, Spencer J, Maconochie J,... Risk Recruitment = Risk of soil moisture limitations to perennial plant species germination and recruitment events (index, low 0 - 1 high). Based on methodology described by Hobbs TJ, Armstrong D, Wenham D, Howell S, Spencer J, Maconochie J, Facelli F, Brandle R, Bowen Z & Fitzgerald L (2017). Flora and fauna communities of the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, DEWNR Technical report 2017/23, Government of South Australia, Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources / Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Adelaide. Data sources: DEWNR Biological Databases of South Australia (2017); Atlas of Living Australia (2016); Landsat satellite imagery (1987-2015); Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia (2015); Interim Biogeographic Regions of Australa (2012). Positional accuracy:0.000278 degrees Attribute accuracy: High. Reliant on the accuracy of topographic wetness index surfaces from the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia (2015) and Landsat Water Observations from Space data (1987-2015). Logical consistency:Index, constrained values between 0 and 1 Data is gridded at ~30 m cell size and interpretations should not be made at scales less than this. More +

Attribute details

Name	Definition
Pixel value	Risk of soil moisture limitations to perennial plant species germination and recruitment events (index
Count	Number of cells