By Andrea Wild From ugly ducklings like the Rough Dreamer to the kiss-me-I’m-really-a-prince Clown Triggerfish, Australia’s marine fishes are now at your fingertips thanks to FishMap, officially launched on Tuesday 26 February, 2013, by the Atlas of Living Australia . FishMap … Continue reading
I like good wine. Fortunately these days, Australia has a huge number of excellent value wines. After many years enjoying Australia’s wonderful Shiraz, I’ve transitioned through Cabernets to Pinot Noir. However, finding good Pinot Noir is a lot harder than finding … Continue reading
PhyloJive (Phylogeny Javascript Information Visualiser and Explorer) is a web based application that places biodiversity information aggregated from many sources onto compact phylogenetic trees. PhyloJive: is entirely client-side renders in the web browser on a HTML5 canvas requires no plugins is … Continue reading
Its now possible to view and work with a list of species layers for a genus or higher taxon through a OGC compliant desktop tool such as uDIG or ArcGIS.This allows users to render the data for multiple species on … Continue reading
A few months ago, John Tann posted a blog on how to use the sandbox with a list of names. This blog will focus on point data you would like to use within the Atlas. The sandbox handles species occurrence … Continue reading
Tags: Charts, CustomFacets, DataUpload, Mapping, Sandbox, SpatialPortal
A key challenge for revegetation practitioners is to select plant material that will be suitable for both current and future climatic conditions. There have been an increasing number of revegetation projects established in Australia over the last 20 years. For … Continue reading
Tags: Biodiversity_Fund, Climate, Plantings
By Juliette Bryan, Data Analyst at the ALA One of the challenges the Atlas of Living Australia faces is the integration of biodiversity occurrence data in many different forms. Most of our data comes from museums, herbaria, other biological … Continue reading
New Features of the Spatial Portal The latest release of the Spatial Portal has many new and exciting features such as tabulation, mapping facets (species attributes), mapping multiple layers at once, a new points to grid matrix tool, and a … Continue reading
On 21 November 2011, Kristen Williams gave a presentation at the Ecological Society of Australia Conference titled: ‘Informing data models in ecology: Which layers should I use in my biodiversity model?’ PDF (2.7 MB) using examples from the Atlas of Living Australia’s Spatial … Continue reading
The ALA’s spatial portal and mapping tools have been greatly enhanced and are now available at http://spatial.ala.org.au. This has been a major re-work of the portal, simplifying the user interface and adding a lot more flexibility to the manipulation of species, … Continue reading
A new Atlas scatter plot tool provides a new way to explore the environmental factors which control the range of each species – and raises interesting questions along the way. Continue reading
Ecologists, field naturalists and all sorts of people might ask such a question. The greater glider, Petauroides volans (Kerr, 1792), is Australia’s largest glider, an arboreal marsupial that feeds on Eucalyptus leaves at night and shelters in tree hollows during the day. We have records of where it has been observed, but where else might it be? Species distribution models are often used to answer such questions. Continue reading
Team member Adam Collins has developed two key applications for the Spatial Analysis Toolkit. Sampling produces a spreadsheet file containing of locations (rows) by environmental values (columns). Filtering uses environmental layers of interest and lower/upper bound values for each layer, it then identifies what species lie within the defined envelope. Continue reading