A 25m grid of mean annual soil temperature at 30cm depth derived by regression analysis from 175 data loggers and NIWA standard climate stations recording soil temperature. This clipped version is provided for use as a regression variable for calculating the BASE carrying capacity. For use with Model 1.

Monthly water balance ratio 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 layer differentiates between regions that have minimal water...

New Zealand Food Production and Nutrition Data Stack (NZFPNDS) contains 19 spatial layers informing on annual nutrition indicators for energy, macronutrients, minerals, and vitamins. NZFPNDS has been modelled employing data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, AgriBase® (a product of AsureQuality) and Land Cover Database...

This layer provides a classification of New Zealand ecosystems according to plant 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...

New Zealand's potential forest composition was predicted from regressions relating the distributions of major canopy tree species to environment. Environmental variables, chosen for their correspondence to major tree physiological processes, included annual and seasonal temperature and solar radiation, soil and atmospheric water deficit, soil leaching,...

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...

New Zealand Food Production and Nutrition Data Stack (NZFPNDS) contains 19 spatial layers informing on annual nutrition indicators for energy, macronutrients, minerals, and vitamins. NZFPNDS has been modelled employing data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, AgriBase® (a product of AsureQuality) and Land Cover Database...

EcoSat woody is a basic landcover map of New Zealand from Landsat TM imagery at 15m resolution. Classes include water, bare ground, woody cover, herbaceous cover, and snow. Reference: John R. Dymond, James D. Shepherd, The spatial distribution of indigenous forest and its composition in the Wellington region, New Zealand, from ETM+ satellite imagery,...

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...

New Zealand Food Production and Nutrition Data Stack (NZFPNDS) contains 19 spatial layers informing on annual nutrition indicators for energy, macronutrients, minerals, and vitamins. NZFPNDS has been modelled employing data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, AgriBase® (a product of AsureQuality) and Land Cover Database...

This layer provides a classification of New Zealand ecosystems according to plant 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...

A 15 metre resolution, floating point precision, elevation grid generated from the LINZ 1:50,000 scale Topographic data layers (20m contours, spot heights, lake shorelines and coastline) using Landcare Research's in-house interpolation software. This DEM was originally produced in New Zealand Map Grid (NZMG) projection with elevation in terms of the...

EcoSat woody is a basic landcover map of New Zealand from Landsat TM imagery at 15m resolution. Classes include water, bare ground, woody cover, herbaceous cover, and snow. Reference: John R. Dymond, James D. Shepherd, The spatial distribution of indigenous forest and its composition in the Wellington region, New Zealand, from ETM+ satellite imagery,...

New Zealand Food Production and Nutrition Data Stack (NZFPNDS) contains 19 spatial layers informing on annual nutrition indicators for energy, macronutrients, minerals, and vitamins. NZFPNDS has been modelled employing data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, AgriBase® (a product of AsureQuality) and Land Cover Database...

Chemical limitations to plant growth 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 defines three classes of soil based on...

Annual water deficit 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). Based on a water balance model using monthly estimates of mean daily...

This layer represents the net supply of water remaining after evapo-transpiration losses (mm/yr) as an indicator of water- flow regulation. Although this is a simplified view and does not consider low flows or flood flows, it permits national assessment with the use of a nationally applicable water-balance model (similar to the tier 1 approach in Kareiva...

A 25m grid of BASE carrying capacity for ALL leases (original model for all lease properties). This layer is buffered around the lease boundaries supplied by LINZ by roughly 5km to ensure that it can be reused for analysis where property boundaries are found to be incorrectly mapped or out-of-date.

A 25m resolution digital elevation model (DEM) clipped from Landcare Research's national 25m DEM for use as a regression variable for calculating BASE carrying capacity. For use with Model 1.

Mean minimum temperature of the coldest month 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). Mean minimum temperature of the coldest month is...