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.

These 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.

The 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.