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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Vegetation Condition Benchmarks Litter raw data V1.2

Vegetation Condition Benchmarks describe the reference state to which sites are compared to score their site-scale biodiversity values or set goals for management or restoration. This file contains some of the raw data used to create the most current vegetation condition benchmarks. Refer to the 'Dataset relationship' section, below, to access all the raw data files used in creating the Vegetation Condition Benchmarks V1.2.

The ‘Vegetation Condition Benchmarks Litter raw data V1.2’ file contains litter cover data from 6971 plots that were used to create litter cover benchmarks.

For further details see Capararo S, Watson CJ, Somerville M, Travers SK, McNellie MJ, Dorrough J and Oliver I (2019) Function Attribute Benchmarks for the Biodiversity Assessment Method: Data audit, compilation and analysis. Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.

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Language English
Edition 1.2
Purpose Legislative and regulatory requirements (esp BAM Method and Calculator)
Frequency of change Irregular
Keywords VEGETATION,VEGETATION-Floristic,VEGETATION-Structural
Metadata Date 2019-07-22
Date of Asset Creation 2017-08-19
Date of Asset Publication 2019-08-08
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Geospatial Topic Environment
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 1983-04-01 - 2017-12-04
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2019"
DOI doi:10.25948/5d4b7d87ee2ef
DOI Creator name Deyarne Plowman
DOI Resource Type Table of vegetation benchmarks
DOI Resource Type General Description Dataset