2016 SoE Biodiversity Threatened species richness across Australia

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Created 23/01/2017

Updated 13/11/2024

Map showing nationally threatened species richness across Australia. Analysed data provided by Dr Pia Lentini (University of Melbourne) - using data sourced from the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy website (viewed June 2013).

For further information on the data analysis see: Ives, C.D., Lentini, P.E., Threlfall, C.G., Ikin, K., Shanahan, D.F., Garrard, G.E., Bekessy, S.A., Fuller, R.A., Mumaw, L., Rayner, L. and Rowe, R., 2016. Cities are hotspots for threatened species. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(1), pp.117-126 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12404

Information on the Australian Government Department of Environment and Energy's open data can be found at http://www.environment.gov.au/about-us/environmental-information-data/open-data

Map prepared by the Department of Environment and Energy in order to produce Figure BIO5 in the Biodiversity theme of the 2016 State of the Environment Report, available at http://www.soe.environment.gov.au

The map service can be viewed at: http://soe.terria.io/#share=s-nIhrThvVcvOUkFyJJphMz90hyVE

Downloadable spatial data also available below.

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Title 2016 SoE Biodiversity Threatened species richness across Australia
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/e78616d1-7111-434f-a94e-3fcc4c5974c4
Contact Point
State of the Environment
soe@environment.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2016
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au