Illinois Biodiversity Suitability Data

Statewide composite biodiversity suitability raster (R(x)) for Illinois, USA, from the study "Biodiversity, Conservation and Design Thinking: an AI-driven, Geodesign Framework for Determining Habitat Quality" (Wang, Deal, Zhu & Gu). R(x) is the sum of eleven taxonomic-class habitat-suitability layers, produced with class-level MaxEnt models fitted to 826,989 GBIF occurrence records (10,029 species, 11 classes) against 27 environmental predictors, refined through an iterative Geodesign cycle. Higher values indicate greater modeled multi-taxa biodiversity suitability. Format: GeoTIFF CRS: UTM Zone 16N Resolution: 600 m Extent: State of Illinois Value range: Theoretical [0, 11]; observed [0, 8.15]; mean 2.833