Ecosystem extent
An image that shows hummock grassland with boab trees (Adansonia gregorii) at the Devonian Reef Conservation Park, WA Credit: S Prober CSIRO
About
Ecosystem extent is the size of an ecosystem asset. It is most commonly measured in terms of spatial area.
Matching Australian ecosystem types to international classifications
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Global Ecosystem Typology (IUCN GET) is a classification structure consisting of six levels: realms, biomes, ecosystem functional groups, biogeographic ecotypes, global ecosystem types and local ecosystem types.
In these datasets we report the extent of Level 3: Ecosystem functional groups.
In total, 66 ecosystem functional groups from 20 biomes were mapped across the freshwater, terrestrial, marine and transitional realms.