Author: William Mullins | Date: 12-06-2025
Phoenix is one of the fastest-growing areas in the United States. This repository quantifies how that growth has altered terrestrial biodiversity using the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) at 100 meter resolution.
``phoenix-biodiversity/ ├── README.md ├── Phoenix_Biodiversity.ipynb
- Phoenix Subdivision Shapefile: A shapefile containing county subdivisions in Arizona as of 2025 from the U.S. Census Bureau. It can be accessed here.
- Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) Time Series: A dataset containing estimates of terrestrial biodiversity intactness as 100-meter maps from 2017 to 2020. It can be accessed here.
Impact Observatory. (2017–2020). IO biodiversity [Data set]. Microsoft Planetary Computer. https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/io-biodiversity
U.S. Census Bureau. (2024). TIGER/Line shapefile, current, state, Arizona, county subdivision [Data set]. U.S. Department of Commerce. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-current-state-arizona-county-subdivision