Datasets

  • GDM Classification of New Zealand Biotic Composition for Trees and Shrubs 6 groups

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a classification of New Zealand ecosystems according to tree and shrub composition. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relation ship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. The transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM Classification of New Zealand Biotic Composition for Trees and Shrubs 101 groups

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a classification of New Zealand ecosystems according to tree and shrub composition. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relation ship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. The transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • Mean July Soil Temperature (South Island)

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Soil temperature surfaces for the South Island of New Zealand are based on analysis of a combination of monthly mean soil temperature data from the NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) 3 years data from 175 mini-data-loggers (1997-2000) laid out in a stratified sampling scheme at 7 climatically representative locations in the South...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - Ferns - Underlying Data: mattran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict fern compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM Classification of New Zealand Biotic Composition for Ferns 6 groups

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a classification of New Zealand ecosystems according to fern composition. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relation ship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. The transformed environmental...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - Ferns - Underlying Data: raintran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict fern compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - Ferns - Underlying Data: gdmxtran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict fern compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - Ferns - Underlying Data: calciumtran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict fern compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • ecr_vpdjan

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    A 25m resolution grid of mean annual vapour pressure deficit derived from the Land Environment New Zealand underlying climate dataset at an original resolution of 100m. This grid was resampled to 25m by bilinear interpolation to have visually compatible resolution to other data sets being used in modelling of ECR BASE carrying capacity. For use with both...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - All Plants - Underlying Data: gdmytran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict plant compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • Mean October Soil Temperature (South Island)

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Soil temperature surfaces for the South Island of New Zealand are based on analysis of a combination of monthly mean soil temperature data from the NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) 3 years data from 175 mini-data-loggers (1997-2000) laid out in a stratified sampling scheme at 7 climatically representative locations in the South...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - All Plants - Underlying Data: mastran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict plant compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - All Plants - Underlying Data: junestran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict plant compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - Ferns - Underlying Data: gdmytran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict fern compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • ecr_fmask

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This is a binary mask layer for the Earning Capacity Rental project - identifying all areas that by definition (forested or water body) will have BASE carrying capacity set to zero (0 SU/ha). All other areas are set to one (unity). The final BASE carrying capacity is derived by multiplying the result of the regression models by this binary mask leavibng...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - Trees and Shrubs - Underlying Data: gdmxtran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict tree and shrub compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • ecr_nzmas

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    A 25m resolution grid of long-term mean annual solar radiation for use as a regression variable for calculating ECR BASE carrying capacity. NZMAS is derived from the LENZ underlying climate layer dataset. This grid has been resampled to 25m resolution using bilinear interpolation to deliver visually compatible apparent resolution as other input data sets...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • LENZ - Exchangeable calcium

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Exchangeable calcium data layer used in the creation of Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ) classification. The classification layers have been made publicly available by the Ministry for the Environment (see https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layers/?q=LENZ for to access these layers). This data layer is a measure of how much exchangeable calcium is held...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • GDM - All Plants - Underlying Data: mattran

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a transformation of environmental layer to best predict plant compositional turnover. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relationship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. These transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025

  • Mean March Soil Temperature (South Island)

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Soil temperature surfaces for the South Island of New Zealand are based on analysis of a combination of monthly mean soil temperature data from the NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)3 years data from 175 mini-data-loggers (1997-2000) laid out in a stratified sampling scheme at 7 climatically representative locations in the South...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 17 May 2025