Plant diversity spatial layers for Australia

These data are spatial layers of predicted patterns in plant community diversity across Australia, as presented and described in full in Mokany et al. (2022). The layers represent spatial predictions from models of plant community species richness and plant community compositional dissimilarity. The plant diversity models utilised data from 115,086 plant community survey plots across Australia, and environmental predictors from fine resolution (3 arc-second; ≈90m) spatially complete layers. The models were projected across Australia and the resulting layers provided here. The original spatial layers were also aggregated to courser spatial resolutions (0.0025° (≈250m) and 0.01° (≈1km)) which are also provided here, for applications that require smaller data files. Two additional spatial layers are also provided, synthesising the diversity model projections: (i) compositional uniqueness; (ii) diversity importance (both only provided at 0.01° (≈1km) resolution).