Common use of Preferred environmental datasets Clause in Contracts

Preferred environmental datasets. a) For consistency across all situations, the ‘Worldclim Data’ dataset is recommended. This addresses situations where species have a restricted range and there are no, or very few, meteorological stations in the ‘World Stations’ dataset. These interpolated computer generated points have a scatter of points across locations which have few meteorological stations. Use of this dataset also minimises concerns that the closest meteorological stations to a given location may not actually reflect the immediate location and climatic conditions. This may occur where disparate climatic conditions exist within a region, such as the mountainous areas bordering a coastline, like the Andes. b) The ‘World Stations’ climate data set for comparing the climatic range of a pest/disease species overseas with the potential area of climatic suitability in Australia is also possible if there are known meteorological stations truly representative of the recorded locations. c) Additional data sets that may be used for the secondary data are: i) The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARES) land use/cover; ii) Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) forest change; and iii) National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) data sets for native vegetation. d) The resolution for analysing data should be a 10 km x 10 km grid. e) Relevant and incontrovertible additional data from sources not listed here may be used following consultation and agreement by all members of the NBMCC.

Preferred environmental datasets. a) For consistency across all situations, the ‘Worldclim Data’ dataset is recommended. This addresses situations where species have a restricted range and there are no, or very few, meteorological stations in the ‘World Stations’ dataset. These interpolated computer generated points have a scatter of points across locations which have few meteorological stations. Use of this dataset also minimises concerns that the closest meteorological stations to a given location may not actually reflect the immediate location and climatic conditions. This may occur where disparate climatic conditions exist within a region, such as the mountainous areas bordering a coastline, like the Andes. b) The ‘World Stations’ climate data set for comparing the climatic range of a pest/disease species overseas with the potential area of climatic suitability in Australia is also possible if there are known meteorological stations truly representative of the recorded locations. c) Additional data sets that may be used for the secondary data are: i) The Australian i. Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics Rural Sciences (ABARESBRS) land use/cover; ii) Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) . AGO forest change; and iii) National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) . NVIS data sets for native vegetation. d) The resolution for analysing data should be a 10 km x 10 km grid. e) Relevant and incontrovertible additional data from sources not listed here may be used following consultation and agreement by all members of the NBMCC.