New Zealand Environmental Data Stack (NZEnvDS): A standardised collection of spatial layers for environmental modelling and site characterisation

IF 1.4 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ECOLOGY

New Zealand Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.20417/nzjecol.45.31

James K. McCarthy, J. Leathwick, P. Roudier, J. Barringer, T. Etherington, Fraser J. Morgan, N. Odgers, Robbie Price, S. Wiser, S. Richardson

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Abstract

Environmental variation is a crucial driver of ecological pattern, and spatial layers representing this variation are key to understanding and predicting important ecosystem distributions and processes. A national, standardised collection of different environmental gradients has the potential to support a variety of large-scale research questions, but to date these data sets have been limited and difficult to obtain. Here we describe the New Zealand Environmental Data Stack (NZEnvDS), a comprehensive set of 72 environmental layers quantifying spatial patterns of climate, soil, topography and terrain, as well as geographical distance at 100 m resolution, covering New Zealand’s three main islands and surrounding inshore islands. NZEnvDS includes layers from the Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ), additional layers generated for LENZ but never publicly released, and several additional layers generated more recently. We also include an analysis of correlation between variables. All final NZEnvDS layers, their original source layers, and the R-code used to generate them are available publicly for download at https://doi.org/10.7931/m6rm-vz40.

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新西兰环境数据栈(NZEnvDS):用于环境建模和场地特征的标准化空间层集合

环境变化是生态格局的重要驱动因素，表征这种变化的空间层是理解和预测重要生态系统分布和过程的关键。不同环境梯度的全国标准化收集有可能支持各种大规模研究问题，但迄今为止这些数据集有限且难以获得。本文介绍了新西兰环境数据栈(NZEnvDS)，这是一套综合的72个环境层，量化了气候、土壤、地形和地形的空间格局，以及100米分辨率的地理距离，涵盖了新西兰的三个主要岛屿和周围的近海岛屿。NZEnvDS包括来自新西兰陆地环境(LENZ)的层，为LENZ生成但从未公开发布的附加层，以及最近生成的几个附加层。我们还包括变量之间的相关性分析。所有最终的NZEnvDS层，它们的原始源层，以及用于生成它们的r代码都可以在https://doi.org/10.7931/m6rm-vz40上公开下载。

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New Zealand Journal of Ecology 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

12.50%

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审稿时长

>36 weeks

期刊介绍： The New Zealand Journal of Ecology is a biannual peer-reviewed journal publishing ecological research relevant to New Zealand/Aotearoa and the South Pacific. It has been published since 1952 (as a 1952 issue of New Zealand Science Review and as the Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society until 1977). The Journal is published by the New Zealand Ecological Society (Inc.), and is covered by Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Science, GEOBASE, and Geo Abstracts.