Atlas of Living Australia Spatial Portal: Tabulation
Channel: Lee Belbin
Date: 2012-02-20

Tools | Tabulations in the Spatial Portal is the contextual layer counterpart to scatterplots. In scatterplots, the X and Y axes are environmental layers and the points on the graph are occurrences. With tabulations in the SP, the X and Y axes are rows and columns of a table and the entries in the table can be any one of 12 values: area (square km); area %; row %; column %; species; species %; species row %; species column %; occurrences; occurrence %; occurrences row % and occurrences column %. The attached is an example of species richness (%) tabulated across States and Territories for Land Cover. The 1.9% is the first row and column of the table is interpreted as 1.9% of species richness in South Australia occurs in 'Native shrublands and heathlands'.