ClimateRefugiaNSW is a decision support tool to: identify and visualise putative refugia from climate change for species listed as threatened in New South Wales; download habitat suitability maps for key species; and generate reports for major administrative regions.

At the foundation of this website are models of potential geographic shifts in suitable habitat for ~328 threatened species. The maps are not projections of species' distributions per se; rather, they should be viewed as areas that contain climate, soil or topographic conditions commonly found through each species' current range.

To use this tool, either search for a species or view maps of regions likely to be refugia for multiple species.

References:
1. Phillips, S. J., Anderson, R. P. & Schapire, R. E. Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions. Ecological Modelling 190, 231-259 (2006).
2. Phillips, S. J. & Dudík, M. Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation. Ecography 31, 161-175 (2008).