Human Settlement Areas or HSAs are defined as where people live or work. This dataset has been developed by the State Fire Management Council or SFMC to define the extent and name of each HSA for the purposes of bushfire mitigation planning. The HSA dataset intentionally seeks to identify "clusters" of population density and does not map every residence or workplace in Tasmania. While all efforts have been taken to ensure the accuracy of this dataset, there may be errors and/or omissions in the data presented. Users of this product are advised to independently verify data for accuracy and completeness prior to use. The HSA dataset is currently maintained by the Fuel Reduction Unit, Tasmania Fire Service. Other Keywords: Communities, Community

ABOUT THE NATURAL VALUES ATLAS The Natural Values Atlas provides an easy to use web interface allowing access to authoritative and comprehensive natural values information. It draws together in one centralised location data on Tasmanian flora and fauna including Threatened species and weeds as well as the Tasmanian Geodiversity Database. It also incorporates access to other essential data sets such as TASVEG, Threatened communities and Reserves. The Natural Values Atlas is a supported information tool that ensures knowledge about Tasmania's valuable natural assets is readily available and quickly obtained. This information informs planning and decision making processes across all levels of government, industry and the general public, assisting to improve conservation outcomes for natural values in the State.

SPECIES The Natural Values Atlas is comprised of a database and web based application that allows observations of plants and animals from various sources to be viewed, recorded and analysed. It can be used to search for information on more than 20,000 plant and animal species from Tasmania, Australia and can display maps showing their location and extent. There are currently over 1 million observations of plants and animals recorded in the Natural Values Atlas which have been collected by a variety of custodians. This information has been generated through general species surveys and projects undertaken for scientific research, environmental assessments and other purposes throughout the State since the 1800's. The application maintains species taxonomy, attributes and conservation values and provides access to images, related web sites and management documents such as listing statements and recovery plans. Habitat Mapping for a number of high priority threatened fauna species is also available. Information sourced from monitoring individual flora and fauna species is accessible as well as samples and analysis which allows information about samples that are associated with an observation to be recorded and tracked.

GEODIVERSITY The Natural Values Atlas can be used to find and download information about sites that are listed in the Tasmanian Geodiversty Database either for their geology, geomorphology or soil conservation values. The database contains descriptions of the sites and the geodiverstiy values they encompass, their significance to conservation, sensitivity to disturbance, and advice as to appropriate site management. The Natural Values Atlas can display maps showing the location and extent of sites.

MANAGEMENT Management locations and activities are another important area of the Natural Values Atlas which provide access to data about locations where activities are being undertaken to control, monitor, manage or maintain natural values. Examples include 1080 baits, traps, nests, nest boxes and monitoring plots.

PROJECTS All data stored in the Natural Values Atlas is organised under a Project. This component of the Natural Values Atlas contains information regarding the custodian responsible for the project, specific project details such as the people involved in the project or the methodology used to collect the data. Associated reports, links and images can also be found in this area. It provides metadata for each project data set.

CONSEVATION INFORMATION SYSTEM The Conservation Information System (CIS) contains data that assists with conservation planning at the landscape scale. The CIS Conservation Analysis interface allows you to apply your own weightings for a particular conservation value to create a map of areas that have a high density of the natural values of interest.

NATURAL VALUES REPORTS Natural Values Reports enables multiple data sets to be brought together in the one report providing a resource that can be used for desktop assessments of natural values for specific areas. Some of the data sets available through the Natural Values Report facility include: threatened species, species of conservation significance, weeds, geodiversity, TASVEG, threatened communities and reserves.

QUALITY ASSURANCE New data is loaded into the Natural Values Atlas daily and existing data is regularly reviewed and updated as required. All data in the Natural Values Atlas is carefully scrutinized by the NVA team who draw on the support of relevant experts to ensure that the data is of the highest quality possible. This is an ongoing task for which the NVA team welcomes feedback and input from NVA users to continually improve the quality of the data. The NVA is supported by Metadata and Business Rules. These are available from within the NVA or on request. The Natural Values Atlas undergoes constant review and improvement where existing functionality is streamlined and new functionality is added as required. New versions are regularly released. The Natural Values Atlas Message Board informs users of changes to the system.

SUPPORT There is online help embedded in the Natural Values Atlas which instructs users on how to operate the database and make use of the various functions available. It you are interested in attending a training session then please contact the NVA team to find out what is available.

HOW TO ACCESS THE NATURAL VALUES ATLAS Go to www.naturalvaluesatlas.tas.gov.au and select the Register button. Fill in and submit the form. You will be informed via email when your user name and password has been activated. Simplified data from the NVA is also available via the Land Information System Tasmania (LIST) at www.thelist.tas.gov.au.

FURTHER INFORMATION For enquiries please contact support(at)naturalvaluesatlas.tas.gov.au.

The dataset contains length frequency information for abalone species, collected in all Tasmanian state waters from 1988.

Contemporary refugia contain communities that are strongly associated with climatic and topographic factors that confer a degree of protection from endangering processes such as fire and disease. These refugia have two important roles: they provide locations for the conservation of species and communities and they provide sources for population expansion if limiting conditions abate.

Places qualifying as refuges from frequent fire do so because, although they contain plants sensitive to fire, they are protected in the landscape by climatic, topographic and soil features. It is generally accepted, however, that very few, if any, places have totally escaped the effects of fire in Tasmania and that refugia will have occasionally been burnt under extreme fire conditions. But such events are considered much rarer in these places in comparison with areas that lack the protection afforded by refugia. It is the low frequency of burning that marks these places as significant.

After wildfire, forest communities associated with refugia are usually slower to recover and may take many decades, even centuries, to do so.

This database is a digital polygon coverage of Tasmania (captured at 1:100 000 scale). Refugia from present processes are coded with a unique number and the relevant National Estate values and criteria.

All sites in this coverage are classified according to National Estate criterion A2: Importance in maintaining existing processes or natural systems at the regional or national scale.

This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth and the Tasmanian Governments under the Tasmania-Commonwealth Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) data agreement of 8th November 1997.This data is available to the public under licence from the Department as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.

Any reproduction of this dataset must carry the following statement: Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmanian Government 1997. Departmental Deed

Point in time snap shot of the Tasmanian prison population as at 2 October 2017 by legal status, security classification, Indigenous status, and country of birth.

In this study, we quantified the impacts of recreational hunting on a population of non-native fallow deer (Dama dama) on a private conservation reserve in Tasmania, Australia (2020-2022). We used motion-sensitive cameras to estimate seasonal deer population density. Recreational hunters recorded their hunting effort (date and duration of hunts), deer seen, and deer killed, and used a GPS to record where they hunted.This dataset includes all the files and R-code to run the analyses.

Point in time snap shot of the Tasmanian prison population as at 16 December 2016 by legal status, security classification, Indigenous status, and country of birth.

Small, fragmented or isolated populations are at risk of population decline due to fitness costs associated with inbreeding and genetic drift. The King Island scrubtit Acanthornis magna greeniana is a critically endangered subspecies of the nominate Tasmanian scrubtit A. m. magna, with an estimated population of < 100 individuals persisting in three patches of swamp forest. The Tasmanian scrubtit is widespread in wet forests on mainland Tasmania. We sequenced the scrubtit genome using PacBio HiFi and undertook a population genomic study of the King Island and Tasmanian scrubtits using a double-digest restriction site-associated DNA (ddRAD) dataset of 5,239 SNP loci. The genome was 1.48 Gb long, comprising 1,518 contigs with an N50 of 7.715 Mb. King Island scrubtits formed one of four overall genetic clusters, but separated into three distinct subpopulations when analysed independently of the Tasmanian scrubtit. Pairwise FST values were greater among the King Island scrubtit subpopula..., 2.1 Sample collection To obtain indicative genetic diversity metrics across mainland Tasmania, we sampled between five and eleven scrubtits from seven a-priori subpopulations on mainland Tasmania (including Bruny Island) during the non-breeding season (January – March 2021). Due to small population sizes and licensing restrictions on King Island, we sampled five individuals from each of the three locations during the same non-breeding season (Table 1, Figure 1). We trapped scrubtits using a single 6m mist net and one minute of scrubtit song broadcast using portable speakers (ANU animal ethics permit # A2021/33). We sampled blood (< 20 μl per individual) using the standard brachial venepuncture technique with a 0.7mm needle into 70% ethanol. For two individuals from whom we were unable to safely obtain blood, we collected feathers shed during handling. One male Tasmanian scrubtit was collected under licence (see acknowledgements) for genome sequencing, from which organ tissue samples ..., , # Genomic insights into the critically endangered King Island scrubtit

https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.12jm63z66

The dataset comprises:

1) the raw .vcf file "CAGRF220911987_GA.vcf"

2) a csv of the final filtered dataset used for genomic analysis within the manuscript:Â Â "scrubtit_genos_140623.csv". Rows contain samples and columns contain SNPs

3) a csv of sample metadata:Â "Sampinfo_ross_check.csv". Rows contain samples and columns contain metadata

4) an annotated R- script for repeat analysisÂ

Description of the data and file structure

2) a csv of the final filtered dataset used for genomic analysis within the manuscript:Â Â "scrubtit_genos_140623.csv". Rows contain samples and columns contain SNPs

column 1: sample ID (as per 'sample1') in sample medtadata (column 1).Â

columns 2-5239: SNP ids

Missing data code: NA

3) a csv of sample metadata:Â "Sampinfo_ross_check.csv". Rows contain samples and columns contain metadate

column 1-...

From 1975 to 2000, biological surveys were undertaken of the many islands around the coast of Tasmania and Bass Strait. Most sites were visited only once. There were varying methods to estimate the population size of the seabirds at each site, ranging from counting active nests, burrows and in some cases from the size of the site along with a measure of the nest or burrow densities. Further details of the geology and vegetation cover are in the cited reference Brothers, Nigel, Pemberton, David, Pryor, Helen and Halley, Vanessa (2001) Tasmania's offshore islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. ISBN 072464816X xii, 643

This dataset present the location of premises which hold liquor licences in Tasmania as of August 2015.

The liquor licence layer is built from data supplied by the Liquor and Gaming Branch, Department of Treasury and Finance. The data is broken into liquor licence category and provides the premises licence number, name and effective date.

For more information please visit the Land Information System Tasmania (LIST).

Please note that this dataset is a snapshot of the LIST taken in June 2019.

Point in time series of the Tasmanian Prison Population by legal status, security classification, Indigenous status, and country of birth.

Sampling of commercial mid-water trawl catches for small pelagics from waters adjacent to Tasmania have yielded an extensive biological dataset in space and time. As a minimum, size composition information is available from most commerical shots undertaken between 2002 and 2006, referenced with operational information (location, depth and catch weight). Subsamples of the key small pelagics, redbait, jack mackerel and blue mackerel, were examined for size, sex, gonad weight and stage and otoliths have been retained for age determination. Further data has been collected since the initial investigation.

Disjunct populations are those that have become physically separated, resulting in minimal or no gene flow between them. This separation could be caused by a break in a formerly continuous distribution or by long-distance dispersal (jump dispersal) over a barrier. Often, a disjunction takes the form of a larger parent or core population and a smaller outlier, or outliers, but in some instances the disjunct populations are of about the same size.

This database is a digital polygon coverage of Tasmania (captured at 1:500 000 scale) detailing places where concentrations of disjunct flora populations occur. Disjunct flora polygons are given a unique code, the relevant National Estate values and criteria, and cleared land status.

All sites in this coverage are classified according to National Estate criterion A1: Importance in the evolution of Australian flora, fauna, landscapes or climate.

This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth and the Tasmanian Governments under the Tasmania-Commonwealth Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) data agreement of 8th November 1997.This data is available to the public under licence from the Department as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.

Any reproduction of this dataset must carry the following statement: Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmanian Government 1998. Departmental Deed

Invasive species are predicted to adjust their morphological, physiological, and life-history traits to adapt to their non-native environments. Although a loss of genetic variation during invasion may restrict local adaptation, introduced species often thrive in novel environments. Despite being founded by just a few individuals, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae) has successfully spread across the island of Tasmania (Australia) in less than 30 years, becoming abundant and competitive with native pollinators. We use RADseq to investigate what neutral and adaptive genetic processes associated with environmental and morphological variation allow B. terrestris to thrive as an invasive species in Tasmania. Across 15 sites, we found high gene flow with low genetic diversity, significant isolation-by-distance, and spatial variation in effective migration rates. A longitudinal band of restricted migration was evident across the mid-central region of Tasmania, corresponding to sites with high elevation, pastural land, low wind speeds and low precipitation seasonality. Tajima’s D indicated a recent population expansion for central sites extending from the south to the north of the island. Significant selection signatures were found for loci in relation to precipitation, wind speed, and wing loading. Candidate loci were annotated to genes with functions related to cuticle water retention and insect flight muscle stability. Understanding how a genetically impoverished invasive bumblebee has rapidly adapted to a novel island environment provides further understanding about the evolutionary processes that determine successful insect invasions and the potential for invasive hymenopteran pollinators to spread globally. Methods Wild B. terrestris workers were sampled from 16 locations across the Australian continental island state of Tasmania and subsequently extracted for DNA (DNeasy Blood and Tissue extraction kit (Qiagen) and sent for RADseq at to Floragenex, Inc. (Portland, OR, USA). Samples were individually sequenced on an Illumina HighSeq 4000, generating 150bp paired-end reads with an average depth of coverage between 12–112x per sample.

The nature of human influence on the landscape when they first arrived in Tasmania about 40,000 years ago remains speculative. We use pollen and charcoal records from Emerald Swamp and laymuna paywuta in Bass Strait, Tasmania to not only document the timing of Homo sapiens arrival in the region but also the first evidence of anthropogenic fire usage and terrestrial vegetation transformation upon arrival. The timing of human arrival in Tasmania is identified to be at least 41,000 years ago and people used fire to burn forested areas more than already open vegetation types. This provides a deeper understanding of Aboriginal land-use history in Tasmania, as they may have frequently used and managed forested landscapes more than previously thought. The pollen and charcoal records presented here include raw counts of pollen and charcoal, as well as sample depths and chronologies. Chronologies are based on the Bacon age-depth model, using the latest Southern Hemisphere calibration curve (ShCal20). Pollen records only include terrestrial taxa used in the study and are not inclusive of spores and aquatics. Methods Pollen processing follows standard protocol, which includes HCl, KOH, and acetolysis treatment. Charcoal samples were bleached with household bleach for ~16 hours, washed through a 125-um sieve, and counted manually under the stereoscope.

The digital Electoral Boundaries and their legal identifiers have been supplied by the Electoral Commission from each state and territory as well as the Australian Electoral Commission and are available below. These boundaries undergo re-distribution depending on population of the electorate before each election.

Electoral Boundaries are part of Geoscape Administrative Boundaries, which is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here.

The full Administrative Boundaries dataset contains boundaries in seven themes: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) boundaries, electoral boundaries, state and territory boundaries, local government areas, suburbs/localities, wards and town points.

As at November 2019, users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing the new Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020) in addition to datasets on the GDA94 datum.

For GDA2020 datasets, the name of the zip folder and the root folder (once extracted) include a reference to GDA2020. For GDA94 datasets, the zip and root folder names do not contain the datum name (i.e. they remain the same as previous releases).

For example, the zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries downloaded in GDA2020 for November 2019 looks like this:

  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile_GDA2020; or 
  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat_GDA2020

The zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries in GDA94 for November 2019 looks like this:

  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile; or 
  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat

Irrespective of the datum chosen, files within the respective folder use exactly the same naming structures.

Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available here through Geoscape Australia’s network of partners. They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support.

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Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

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Perameles gunnii is an endangered terrestrial marsupial on mainland Australia, but comparitively widespread in Tasmania. No research has yet aimed to assess population structure or genetic diversity in this state until now, where we assess genomic similarity and diversity using a ddRAD dataset of 117 Tasmanian animals. First, we assigned all samples to populations (or demes), according to their coordinate metadata and known geographic boundaries. We then test this hypothesis with population-ignorant genetic clustering analyses: PCA, Structure, and fineRADstructure. Validating seven (7) populations, four in a distinct "northern" group and three in a "southern" groupd, and also identify two populations displaying significant and unexpected isolation. We then looked to directly assess migration between these populations find little evidence, although genetic similarity within nothern and southern groups suggests that gradual mixing is ongoing within these areas. We assessed autosomal heter..., , , # Perameles gunnnii Tasmania 2008-2011

Genotypic data and metadata for 117 Tasmanian Perameles gunnii, sampled from the wild between 2008-2011, and 17 Victorian Perameles gunnii from Mt Rothwell Biodiversity Interpretation Centre, sampled from 2016.

Samples provided as demultiplexed raw reads in .fq.gz format, and a draft scaffold genome is provided in .fa format.

Metadata contains incomplete coordinate data approximated to two (2) decimal places to protect a sensitive species, as per The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Category 3 sensitive species). Where exact coordinate data was unavailable, approximate data was inferred from the recorded locality, and whether coordinates are exact or approximate is indicated in the metadata. Metadata also contains incomplete sex data; where sex was unknown, NA has been used to indicate this.

Additionally, publicly available, post-1990 sighing data for P. gunnii in Tasmania is available in ALA. Also, the distribution map figure ...

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2023 project "Delineation and estimation of the Maugean skate population in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata. The endangered Maugean skate is now only found in Macquarie Harbour, which has a long history of environmental degradation, and recent research suggests that the population may be declining. However, our current abundance estimation tools are inadequate to determine population status and a new method is needed. This project will use next generation genetic sequencing and novel imaging survey tools to delineate and estimate the size of the Macquarie Harbour Maugean skate population to inform conservation strategies. There is also a need to investigate the evolutionary potential of the Maugean skate to adapt to the changing environmental conditions. This research will address these needs by examining the skate's genetic diversity and fine-scale population structure using whole genome typing, and developing a high-resolution dataset of genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms. This genetic approach will help inform adaptive management strategies, such as captive breeding, and enhance our ability to detect differentiated lineages with adaptive potential. Outputs • Tissue sampling results and genome-wide population genetic structure [dataset] • Adaptive resolution imaging sonar (ARIS) and lidar water column scanning [dataset] • Final project report [written]

The southern rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii, shows clear phenotypic differences between shallow water (red coloured) and deeper water (pale coloured) individuals. Translocations of individuals from deeper water to shallower waters are currently being trialled as a management strategy to facilitate a phenotypic change from lower value pale colouration, common in deeper waters, to the higher value red colouration found in shallow waters. Although panmixia across the J. edwardsii range has been long assumed, it is critical to assess the genetic variability of the species to ensure that the level of population connectivity is appropriately understood and translocations do not have unintended consequences. Eight microsatellite loci were used to investigate genetic differentiation between six sites (three shallow, three deep) across southern Tasmania, Australia, and one from New Zealand. Based on analyses the assumption of panmixia was rejected, revealing small levels of genetic differentiatio...

Context. Galaxiids are a widespread, Southern Hemisphere radiation of mostly obligate freshwater fishes. Tasmania houses a diversity of endemic species of Galaxias and Paragalaxias. Of these, many are at risk of extinction, being landlocked, range-restricted, and subject to anthropogenic threats, placing a high conservation priority on the region. Aim. Our aim was to synthesize historic and published molecular datasets to provide the sound systematic framework needed to underpin future conservation and taxonomic efforts for Tasmanian galaxiids. Methods. Novel and published nuclear (allozyme) and matrilineal (cytb) datasets were generated and integrated for every putative Tasmanian galaxiid species lacking a comparable multi-gene assessment. Key results. The Tasmanian galaxiids are phylogenetically diverse, with molecular data generally supporting the accepted taxonomy, but with potential species-level diversity noted within an alpine radiation of the Galaxias truttaceus complex and f...