CSIRO

CSIRO (http://www.csiro.au/) is acting as the host organisation for the Atlas of Living Australia and employs a small team of ALA staff based at CSIRO Entomology in Canberra.

Contribution to the ALA

CSIRO is contributing data from its collections:

Australian National Herbarium (ANH)
Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC)
Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC)
Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC)

During 2007-2008 the CSIRO collections will be developing a range of content for the Atlas, including:

Species information on fishes as part of the Fishes of Australia Online project
Images of a large number of Australian fish species
Images of Australian insect species, including representative images for each Australian insect family
Molecular sequences and specimen data for Australian termites
Molecular sequences and specimen data for a range of vertebrate species
Images and identification tools for Australian reptiles and amphibians
Species information, images and specimen data for Australian mangrove plant species
Nomenclatural data for Australian plant species as part of the Australian Plant Names Index
Information on the state distributions for Australian plant species
Images of Australian plants and of original descriptions of Australian plants
Nomenclatural data on Australian hornworts and liverworts