Lee Belbin

Advisor to The Atlas of Living Australia

Phase 1

Complete

AIM

To develop an authoritative, freely accessible

biodiversity data management system for the

Australian region

AUDIENCE

• The public

• Education (primary to post graduate)

• Land use planners

• Land managers

• Environmental consultants

Information about Species

E.g., description, images, “Where does or could this

species occur"”, identification, classification"etc

Species Pages

Information About Areas

E.g., species lists/observations/richness, climate,

soil, salinity, land use, land cover, topography,

chemistry, ecosystem" etc (~400 layers)

•Terrestrial and marine

•‘Environmental’ and ‘Contextual’

Link Species and Environment

E.g.1: What is the environmental associated with this species?

E.g.2: Where in the Australian does this environment condition occur?

Precipitation - driest quarter

Precipitation – seasonality

Radiation – seasonality

Radiation - warmest quarter

Moisture Index - highest quarter mean

Weathering intensity index

2030A1BMk35M: Evaporation – month

2030A1BMk35M: Precipitation - driest month

2030A1BMk35M: Precipitation - equinox seasonality ratio

2030A1BMk35M: Precipitation - spring or autumn season

2030A1BMk35M: Water stress index - month max

Design Principles• Open source and data

• Different interfaces for different communities of use

• Use of international standards (e.g., TDWG, OGC, W3C") & Best Current Practice (there are so many standards")

• Atlas functions are web services

• Maximize potential applications through comprehensive and consistent integrated biological and environmental data and processes

• Tools and services that demonstrate the value-add from integrated data

• Extensive support for data import and export

• Ability for anyone to annotate any data

A Few More

Achievements…

Cross Tabulations

Australian Coral Ecoregions

Australian States and Territories

Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database

Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries

Directory of Important Wetlands

Fallow practice

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World

Geomorphology of the Australian Margin

IBRA 7 Regions and subregions

IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions

IMCRA Regions

Irrigation practice

Land cover

Land use

Local Government Areas

Marine Ecoregions of the World

National Dynamic Land Cover

National Resource Management Regions

RAMSAR wetland regions

Statistical Local Areas

Stubble practices

Terrestrial Ecoregional Boundaries

Tillage practice

Vegetation - condition

Vegetation types - native

Vegetation types - present

Species: Total%South

Australia

New South

WalesQueensland

Western

Australia

Northern

TerritoryVictoria Tasmania Total

Commonwealth Land Managed for Conservation 0.8% 0.8%

National Park 2.3% 12.9% 8.1% 8.0% 3.5% 4.7% 3.1% 42.5%

Forest Reserve 0.6% 0.6%

Nature Conservation Reserve 1.1% 1.1%

CCA Zone 3 State Conservation Area 1.4% 1.4%

National Park (Commonwealth) 3.5% 3.5%

Protected Area 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 1.0%

5(1)(g) Reserve 1.3% 1.3%

Wilderness Park 0.5% 0.5%

Timber Reserve 3.1% 3.1%

Conservation Park 1.5% 0.1% 1.6% 0.2% 3.4%

Heritage Agreement 1.7% 1.7%

Indigenous Protected Area 0.6% 0.3% 1.2% 2.4% 4.5%

Nature Reserve 5.8% 4.4% 5.0% 15.2%

Nature Refuge 1.2% 1.2%

Wilderness Protection Area 0.6% 0.6%

State Park 1.1% 1.1%

National Park Aboriginal 2.0% 2.0%

National Parks Act Schedule 4 park or reserve 2.0% 2.0%

Regional Reserve 1.7% 0.4% 1.2% 3.2%

Other Conservation Area 0.9% 0.9%

Conservation Area 3.4% 3.4%

State Conservation Area 2.5% 2.5%

CCA Zone 1 National Park 0.7% 0.7%

Natural Features Reserve 1.8% 1.8%

Total 9.7% 25.0% 19.7% 17.4% 11.2% 9.4% 7.6% 100.0%

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Questions?