Atlas of Living Australia
Establishment
The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities. Information on the site would be used to:
- improve our understanding of Australian biodiversity
- assist researchers to build a more detailed picture of Australia’s biodiversity
- assist environmental managers and policy makers develop more effective means of managing and sustaining Australia’s biodiversity.
See Atlas partners for a list of the Atlas’s partners.
International relationships
In developing the Atlas, strong relationships have been created for sharing biodiversity data, resources and experiences with related international organisations such as:
- Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
- European Union’s Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life (4D4Life)
- Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
- Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)—the Atlas is the Australian node of GBIF
Related projects
The Atlas has also worked closely with other NCRIS funded projects to develop common approaches and standards and to share application development where possible. These projects are:
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)
- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
- Australian Biosecurity Intelligence Network (ABIN)
- Australian Phenomics Network (APN)
- Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF)
Role of CSIRO
Development and administration of the Atlas has been undertaken by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on behalf of all the partners and the funding organisation.
Web, publications and media
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Atlas Help
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Atlas Data Sharing Advice
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- Crown of Thorns (COTS) Population Size Estimation
- Becher Point Team
- Connecting the forest to the lake / Burrumbeet Creek / waterway restoration
- Updating the Mackay Whitsunday Water Quality Improvement plan (2014-2021)
- Protecting Nationally Significant Threatened Species of North East Victoria - Implementing recovery actions for three EPBC listed species: - Regent Honeyeater, Macquarie Perch and Swainsona recta View All 1693.
- Precipitation of Coldest Quarter
- The Australian Zooplankton Database (1938 onwards)
- The Australian Phytoplankton Database (1844 onwards)
- Tasmanian Marine Molluscs Observational Records (2003-2017)
- North Marine Region demersal fish and invertebrate collection records (DEW collation), Australia (1980 - 1997)
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