﻿This readme file was generated on 5-Jan-2023 by Fiona Backhouse

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Dataset: Fire analysis for "Nesting habitat of the slow-breeding superb lyrebird and Australia’s ‘Black summer’ megafires (2019–20) in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area"

Author/Principal Investigator Information
Name: Eric J. Hughes
Institution: Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Author/Associate or Co-investigator Information
Name: Victoria I Austin
Institution: Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia

Dataset Author/Co-investigator Information
Name: Fiona Backhouse
Institution: Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Email: frb27@cornell.edu

Date of data collection: 2019 - 2020

Geographic location of data collection: Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, Australia

Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Lyrebird data collected under NSF grant #1730791


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Author permission required to use data

Links to publications that cite or use the data: 

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: Hughes et al. (in prep): Nesting habitat of the slow-breeding superb lyrebird and Australia’s ‘Black summer’ megafires (2019–20) in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area

Was data derived from another source?
If yes, list source(s): 
Fire data derived from Fire Extent and Severity Mapping, provided by the Australian NSW government: https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/fire-extent-and-severity-mapping-fesm-2019-20
Blue Mountains boundary derived from World Heritage Areas: Australia, provided by the Australian government: http://www.environment.gov.au/fed/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B6C54FE6C-2773-47C6-8CBC-4722F29081EF%7D
Slope data derived from Elvis - Elevation and Depth - Foundation Spatial Data: https://elevation.fsdf.org.au/
Vegetation data derived from the Vegetation Formations and Classes of NSW, provided by the Australian NSW government: https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/vegetation-classes-of-nsw-version-3-03-200m-raster-david-a-keith-and-christopher-c-simpc0917

Recommended citation for this dataset: Hughes et al. (in prep). Data from: Nesting habitat of the slow-breeding superb lyrebird and Australia’s ‘Black summer’ megafires (2019–20) in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

File List: 
	File 1 Name: BM_3km_buff2
	File 1 Description: The shapefile and associated GIS files for the study's spatial boundary. Includes the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area with a buffer of 3km.

	File 2 Name: FESM_1
	File 2 Description: Fire severity across the Blue Mountains. Clipped to encompass only the broad study region for ease of analysis.

	File 3 Name: Nest_Data
	File 3 Description: Data for lyrebird nests and random points used to create a nest suitability model.

	File 4 Name: SDM nest suitability R code
	File 4 Description: R code used for nest suitability model and fire analysis.

	File 5 Name: sdm_class
	File 5 Description: Nesting suitability across the Blue Mountains produced by the analysis. Categorical.

	File 6 Name: Slope_DEM_10m2_WGS_merc
	File 6 Description: A raster of slope across the study area.

	File 7 Name: suitability_16Dec22
	File 7 Description: Nesting suitability across the Blue Mountains produced by the analysis. Continuous.

	File 8 Name: VegKey_VM4
	File 8 Description: A key used to reclassify the vegetation layer into four categories.

	File 9 Name: VegMap4
	File 9 Description: Vegetation classes across the Blue Mountains. Clipped to encompass only the broad study region for ease of analysis.


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

See publication for methods. Data was processed using ArcMap 10.7.1 and Rv4.2.2


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Nest_Data

Number of variables: 7

Number of cases/rows: 60

Variable List:
	Point ID: The unique name of each nest or numerical ID of the random point
	PA: Presence/absence of nest. 0 = random point, 1 = nest
	Latitude: The latitude of the nest or random point. Decimal degrees
	Longitude: The longitude of the nest or random point. Decimal degrees
	Slope: The slope/gradient of the land at the nest or random point, based on Elvis data
	Veg Type: The vegetation type at the nest or random point, based on the Vegetation Formations and Classes of NSW
	


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: VegKey_VM4

Number of variables: 7

Number of cases/rows: 76

Variable List:
	ClassNumber: The unique number assigned to each class of vegetation
	ClassName: The unique name assigned to each class of vegetation
	FormationName: The unique name assigned to each formation of vegetation, encompassing multiple vegetation classes
	FormationNumber: The unique number assigned to each formation of vegetation, encompassing multiple vegetation classes
	NewNo: A new value to further collate formations into groups for the analysis
	Val: The reverse of FormationNumber, as ArcMap reversed the values of the vegetation formations
	Veg Type: A simplified name for each new type of vegetation
