Abundance of Deer on Victorian Public Land

dataset: DEER_ABUNDANCE
Model-based predictions of average deer abundance on Victorian public land. Model predictions are based on camera-trap and deer sign surveys at 317 sites across Victoria conducted between 2021 and 2023. The raster data is divided into four layers/bands for the four species analysed in this study: Sambar deer (Cervus unicolor), Fallow deer (Dama dama), Red deer (Cervus elaphus) and Hog deer (Axis porcinus). Abundance estimates are provided as a numeric decimal of deer per square kilometre of public land within each grid cell. The technical report accompanying this data is available from the Arthur Rylah Institute (ARI) website: https://www.ari.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/686591/ARI-Technical-Report-368-Deer-abundance-in-Victoria.pdf The raster data may be loaded into programs such as R or QGIS for analysis. When opening the data in QGIS, undertake the following steps: 1) Follow 'Layer > Add Later > Add Raster Layer' to select the tif file to be added 2) Right-click on the added layer in the 'Layers' panel and select 'Properties' 3) Visualise the abundance of one of the four species of deer by selecting 'Symbology > Band Rendering > Render Type = Singleband Pseudocolor' 4) Choose the band (species) you wish to display 5) Apply the changes
 
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Abundance of Deer on Victorian Public Land

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

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Abundance of Deer on Victorian Public Land 
Alternate title
DEER_ABUNDANCE 
Purpose
An average estimate of deer abundance on Victorian public land for use in deer management programs 
Credit
Justin G Cally and Dave SL Ramsey 
Supplemental Information
Additional methodology for the production of this data is available as a technical report from the ARI website: https://www.ari.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/686591/ARI-Technical-Report-368-Deer-abundance-in-Victoria.pdf. And additional supplementary R and STAN code of the model used to produce the data in the raster is available here: https://github.com/JustinCally/statewide-deer-analysis 
 
 

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VicGrid on GDA94 
 
 

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  • Environment
  • Biota
 
 

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 
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