Ecosystem condition
A landscape image of a grey box gum and grain stubble, St Arnaud, Victoria Credit: S Prober, CSIRO
About
An ecosystem’s condition shows how healthy it is over time. This is measured as the departure of a location in space and time from its reference condition.
Ecosystem condition data builds on ecosystem extent.
Additional information
Supplementary data is available that links ecosystem condition to the extent of ecosystem states across the Australian continent (terrestrial, coastal and freshwater realms only).
This dataset is based on the Australian Ecosystem Models framework and includes information on
- extent of archetypes (that describe reference ecosystem condition states for Australia)
- extent of ecosystem states (in reference or five modified condition states) for Australia for 18 years.
AusEcoModels
These data comprise the HCAS 3.0 (1988-2022) base model estimate of habitat condition (250m grid), National Connectivity Index (NCI) 2.0, 3-year average annually rolling epochs of HCAS and NCI from 1990 to 2022, trends and other derivatives for continental Australia.