Experimental ecosystem accounts and supplementary data for the Western Australian Wheatbelt. A data collection from the Regional Ecosystem Accounting Pilot projects

This data collection comprises experimental ecosystem accounts for the Western Australian Wheatbelt.\n\nThese experimental accounts are a proof of concept offering methods and data that could potentially be used in national ecosystem accounts. While the account-ready data are currently the ‘best available’, further validation is required before being used for decision making.\n\nThe data collection includes account tables, supplementary data, maps and charts derived from account-ready data (provided in related data collections). The ‘synthear’ package in R ( http://doi.org/10.25919/kx7z-sh64) was used to compile the account-ready data into account tables for the Ecosystem Accounting Area (EAA): the Western Australian Wheatbelt. Accounts are provided for the following reporting areas (subdivisions of the EAA): (1) ecosystem types and states; (2) ecosystem functional groups, as defined by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting framework; and (3) Statistical Areas Level 2. Stock accounts open and close at 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019, respectively, which in some cases is represented by an annual average of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 financial years, respectively. Longer time series are provided as supplementary data where available. Flow accounts are for 2018-19.\n