Spatio-temporal habitat suitability and damage threshold data for common carp in Australia, 1990-2017

The study area consists of five catchments in south-eastern Australia, four of which are within the Murray-Darling Basin (the Moonie, Lachlan, mid-Murray, and lower-Murray catchments) and one (the Glenelg) is a coastal river within Victoria. The data is supplied as separate GeoJSON spatial files and aspatial data contained within *.csv files. The attribute data provides weekly values of habitat suitability, estimates of density (kg/ha), water availability (ha) and priority levels for both larvae/young-of-year and sub-adult/adult carp. The river reach network is broken at either river intersections or at impediments to carp movement. Waterbodies included are within a buffer of 5km from the river network. The temporal data range for each catchment was dependant on the available downstream flow data. This data was created for the purpose of providing relevant habitat suitability states to support demographic modelling of carp populations, which in turn was used for epidemiological modelling for researching release strategies of Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3).