Recent ecological change in Australia survey 2017
Publication Date
2020
Document Type
Dataset
Publisher
CSIRO
School or Research Centre
School of Arts and Humanities
Description
Source data for: Prober SM, Raisbeck-Brown N, Williams KJ, Porter N, Leviston Z, Dickson F. Recent climate-driven ecological change across a continent as perceived through local ecological knowledge. PLoS ONE.
Max latitude: 9°0′0″ S Min latitude: 56°0′0″ S Max longitude: 169°0′0″ E Min longitude: 110°0′0″ E Coordinate reference system: WGS84
DOI
10.25919/5dbba9661087a
Research Activity Title
Ecological change in Australia
Research Activity Description
Over the past century, land surface temperatures have risen by almost 1 °C across the Australian continent. However, the ecological impacts of this change have not been systematically investigated. Rapid climate change poses significant new challenges for natural resource managers. The ability to successfully maintain the health and persistence of Australia’s biodiversity is dependent on an evolving body of knowledge about the ecological impacts of climate change. In order to develop a more explicit understanding of the link between climate and ecosystem responses, CSIRO and the Department of the Environment and Energy collaborated to examine how and where climate change has influenced Australian patterns of biodiversity over the past 100 years. This component of the project collected local knowledge of recent ecological change from people with close connections to the Australian environment (e.g. farmers, ecologists, naturalists) through a national online survey.
Methodology
Data acquired through Australian national online survey.
Start of data collection time period
1-6-2017
End of data collection time period
1-12-2017
Language
Eng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Citation
Prober, S., Raisbeck-Brown, N., Porter, N., Williams, K., Leviston, Z., & Dickson, F. (2020). Recent ecological change in Australia survey 2017. CSIRO. https://doi.org/10.25919/5dbba9661087a