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Online database of Australian plants, animals and fungi
Atlas of Living Australia
Available in
English URL
www .ala .org .au Commercial No Launched October 2010 Current status Active
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA ) is an online repository of information about
Australian plants, animals,
[1] and fungi.
[2]
[3] Development started in 2006.
[4] The
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an organisation significantly involved in the development of the ALA.
[5] The Atlas of Living Australia is the Australian
node of the
Global Biodiversity Information Facility .
[5] The ALA is being used to help assess suitability of
revegetation projects by determining species vulnerability to climatic and atmospheric change.
[6]
The Atlas of Living Australia is hosted by CSIRO and supported by the
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy .
[7]
See also
References
^
"John La Salle, The Atlas of Living Australia" .
The Australian .
News Limited . 8 December 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2013 .
^ May, Tom W. (2011). "An overview of the fungi of Melbourne". Victorian Naturalist . 128 (5, sp. iss. S1): 183–197.
^ Belbin, Lee; Wallis, Elycia; Hobern, Donald; Zerger, Andre (21 April 2021).
"The Atlas of Living Australia: History, current state and future directions" . Biodiversity Data Journal . 9 : e65023.
doi :
10.3897/BDJ.9.e65023 .
ISSN
1314-2828 .
PMC
8081701 .
PMID
33935559 .
^ Foden, Blake (6 June 2018).
"Internationally respected Canberra scientist killed in head-on crash" .
The Canberra Times .
Fairfax Media . Retrieved 30 July 2018 .
^
a
b
"The Atlas of Living Australia" .
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation . 20 September 2010. Archived from
the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013 .
^ Booth, Trevor H.; Williams, Kristen J.; Belbin, Lee (2012). "Developing biodiverse plantings suitable for changing climatic conditions 2: Using the Atlas of Living Australia". Ecological Management & Restoration . 13 (3): 274–281.
doi :
10.1111/emr.12000 .
^
Atlas of Living Australia: About Us. Retrieved 08 January 2024.
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