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Fauna Survey Data from Biological Databases of South Australia

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Department for Environment and Water, South Australian Government
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The Biological Databases of South Australia (BDBSA) is South Australia's flora and fauna database that stores and manages specimen and observation records. This record is the fauna component that contains over 2.3 million measurements collected from over 200,000 sites, across 726 species since 1976. This dataset includes occurrence data and morphometric information for invertebrates, fish, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. The resulting database provides a comprehensive record of biodiversity across sites visited during a diverse range of biodiversity projects undertaken in South Australia and provides a basis for future monitoring or other relevant work such as species modelling.

Only validated BDBSA data is made publicly available and all records of sensitive taxa have been masked from the dataset. Data is accessible from the TERN EcoPlots portal, which provides the ability to extract subsets of fauna data across multiple data collections and bioregions for more than 27 variables including animal body size, body length, head length, number of individual animals, and number of individual plants.

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Please see the links for detailed descriptions of the BDBSA fauna survey protocols:

Fauna survey methods: BDBSA Fauna Survey Protocols

Source document of fauna survey protocols: Owens, H (2000) Guidelines for vertebrate surveys in South Australia using the biological survey of South Australia, Department for Environment and Heritage

Site-specific information and metadata: BDBSA Project list and metadata

Plot physical description: Plot physical description


Progress Code: onGoing
Maintenance and Update Frequency: annually

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We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Purpose
BDBSA aims to substantially improve knowledge and management of the biodiversity of South Australia, as well as track the direction of long-term ecological change by: determining the distribution of plant and terrestrial vertebrate species; systematically surveying the range of major habitats via quadrat-based sampling; collecting opportunistic data by active searching away from established quadrats; assessing vegetation and fauna condition; establishing baseline data for future monitoring; producing structural and floristic vegetation maps.

Created: 2011-08-23

Issued: 2024-07-15

Modified: 2024-09-23

Data time period: 1976-10-20

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1 meter - < 30 meters | ACTINOPTERYGII | AMPHIBIA | AMPHIBIANS | ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | AVES | Animal Physiological Ecology | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | Biological Sciences | BIRDS | Biogeography and Phylogeography | CEPHALOPODA | CHONDRICHTHYES | CRUSTACEA | Conservation and Biodiversity | EARTH SCIENCE | Ecology | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Sciences | Evolutionary Biology | Environmental assessment and monitoring | FISH | Gram | HEXAPODA | MAMMALIA | MAMMALS | MYXINI | Millimetre | Number | PETROMYZONTIDA | PSOCODEA | REPTILES | REPTILIA | Terrestrial Ecology | Unitless | Zoology | animal count (Number) | animal habitat description (Unitless) | animal length (Millimetre) | animal observation height (Unitless) | animal pouch condition (Unitless) | animal presence (Unitless) | animal testes condition (Unitless) | biota | body mass (Gram) | disc length (Millimetre) | environment | forearm length (Millimetre) | fork length (Millimetre) | gravid state (Unitless) | head length (Millimetre) | invertebrate carapace length (Millimetre) | irregular | lactating status (Unitless) | last fire year (Unitless) | lower jaw fork length (Millimetre) | mantle length (Millimetre) | number of youngs in pouch (Number) | pes length (Millimetre) | released status (Unitless) | scientific name (Unitless) | snout length (Millimetre) | snout-vent length (Millimetre) | tail length (Millimetre) | turtle carapace length (Millimetre) | vaginal condition (Unitless) |

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