Biodiversity in the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Icon Site and the Murray-Darling Basin, v03.03.2021

The datasets in this collection provide estimates of the state of biodiversity separately, in both the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Icon Site case study site and the Murray-Darling Basin, for two time points (2010 and 2015). Datasets provide both input and account-ready data from which a series of ecosystem accounts have been prepared (see accompanying report). Ecosystem accounts are tabled for a series of focal species, alongside two community level biodiversity accounts. For the species-level ecosystem accounts, data were generated for the following focal species: • Amphibromus fluitans (River Swamp Wallaby Grass) • Botaurus poiciloptilus (Australian Bittern) • Caladenia tensa (Rigid Spider-Orchid) • Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Redgum) • Eucalyptus largiflorens (Black Box) • Grantiella picta (Painted Honeyeater • Lepidium monoplocoides (Winged Pepper-cress) • Litoria raniformis (Growling Grass Frog) • Phascolarctos cinereus (Koala) • Polytelis swainsonii (Superb Parrot) For the community-level ecosystem accounts, data were generated for the following biological groups: • Vascular plants • Waterbirds Assessments undertaken to develop the account-ready data were implemented at two complementary spatial scales: the Murray-Darling-Basin (MDB), and within the MDB, the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Icon Site (GKP). Account-ready data were aggregated to regions within the MDB and GKP, and across the MDB and GKP. Accounting regions across the MDB were defined hydrologically (MDBA 2014) and biologically (https://research.csiro.au/biodiversity-knowledge/projects/models-framework/). The latter were defined within the scope of the current (LEAP) project and are further described in accompanying reports. Account-ready data for the species-level ecosystem accounts comprises: • Gridded data covering the study extents with, for each species, estimates of potential distribution and potential habitat for the years 2010 and 2015. • Regional summaries of the above Account-ready data for the community-level ecosystem accounts comprises: • Gridded data covering the study extents with, for each biological group, estimates of species richness and species persistence for the years 2010 and 2015. • Regional summaries of the above. • Gridded data covering the study extents representing habitat condition for the years 2010 and 2015 which is integrated with diversity models to derive estimates of species persistence. A more in-depth description of the data and methods used to generate them are detailed in an accompanying report: Mokany K, Ware C, Harwood TD, Schmidt RK, Tetreault-Campbell S and Ferrier S (2021) Biodiversity in the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Icon Site and the Murray-Darling Basin. A technical report for the Land and Ecosystem Accounts Project. CSIRO, Australia. https://doi.org/10.25919/nzg6-0819. For updates to the species-level accounts, see the metadata document in the file collection.