Account-ready data: biodiversity in the Western Australian Wheatbelt. A data collection from the Regional Ecosystem Accounting Pilot projects

This collection comprises account-ready data for biodiversity in the Western Australian Wheatbelt, developed in the ‘Ecosystem Accounts for Agricultural and Mixed-Use Landscapes’ project, one of two Regional Ecosystem Accounting Pilot (REAP) projects delivering ecosystem accounts at sub-national scales. The account-ready data in this collection are used to compile biodiversity accounts for the Western Australian Wheatbelt. The data provided are spatial layers of predicted status of different biodiversity features across the Western Australian Wheatbelt over time, prepared for use in ecosystem accounts. The biodiversity features for which account-ready data are provided are: nationally-listed terrestrial threatened species; vascular plants; reptiles; and birds. For all biodiversity features, annual patterns of expected (or potential) status were derived by combining remotely sensed data with information on expected patterns in biodiversity, incorporating field observation data. The status of all biodiversity features has been estimated annually, for each year from 2001 to 2018, using a common spatial grid of 100 m resolution covering the Western Australian Wheatbelt. These data align with other account-ready data prepared for the Western Australian Wheatbelt under the Regional Ecosystem Accounts Accounting Pilot projects, including for ecosystem extent, ecosystem condition and ecosystem services.