345 datasets found

  • New Zealand Potential Vegetation (Grid version)

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    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,...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • FSL Flood Return Interval

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • FSL Profile Readily Available Water

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • PBC - Predicted Background Soil Concentrations, New Zealand

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The Predicted Background Concentration (PBC) shapefile contains spatial information on the effective median, and 95th quantile estimates of the background concentration (mg/kg) of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel and zinc across New Zealand. These background concentrations were developed for a geological unit classification, Chemical4,...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • FSL Phosphate Retention

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • Soil Map of Palmerston North City and environs, New Zealand

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The dataset contains polygons of soils of Palmerston North City and environs mapped at 1:15840. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soils are included.
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • LENZ - Monthly water balance ratio

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    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...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • Elevation

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    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.
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • LENZ - Soil particle size

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    Particle size 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). The data defines the average particle size based on the soil information (from the...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • FSL Permeability Profile

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • FSL Potential Rooting Depth

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • LENZ - Winter solar radiation

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    Winter solar radiation 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). Winter solar radiation reaches a minimum in June, the month when the sun...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • FSL Particle Size Classification

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • Soil Map of Hamilton City

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The dataset contains polygons of soils of Hamilton City mapped at 1:20 000. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • GDM Classification of New Zealand Biotic Composition for All Forest Plants 100 groups

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    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...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • Land Cover Database - LCDB v4.0 Change

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    This data set (LCDB v4.0 Change) allows users to track changes back to earlier versions, and to reconcile derived quantities, such as the total area of a class in a region, to those derived from earlier LCDB versions. Additionally the authority (and date) for mapping the change is recorded in this database where such a change has been manually mapped.
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • South Island Soilscapes

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    Soilscapes are defined as "a landscape unit including a limited number of soil classes that are geographically distributed according to an identifiable pattern". These first approximation soilscapes are derived from legacy data and expert knowledge.
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • Soil Map of the Manawatu County, North Island, New Zealand

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    The dataset contains polygons of soils of the Manawatu mapped at 1:63360. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soils are included.
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • Threatened Environments Classification 2012

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    This layer comes from the Threatened Environment Classification (TEC) version 2012, which is a source of national scale background information on New Zealand's land environments. Specifically, it shows how much native (indigenous) vegetation remains within land environments, and how past vegetation loss and legal protection are distributed across New...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018

  • LENZ - Mean minimum temperature of the coldest month

    Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
    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...
    Created 11 April 2018 • Updated 11 April 2018
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