The Biological Databases of South Australia Flora Survey Collection
<p>The Biological Databases of South Australia (BDBSA) is South Australia's flora and fauna database that stores and manages specimen and observation records. This metadata record is the <i>Flora Survey</i> component that contains 1,050,631 plant measurements collected from 224,572 sites, across 5565 plant species since 1976. The dataset contains important vegetation structural attributes, with parameters such as crown openness, crown depth and crown separation ratio, including observations on plant occurrence data and fire disturbance related parameters. 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.</p>
<p>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 <a href=" https://ecoplots-test.tern.org.au/search?dataset=bdbsa&search_logic=or#/ ">TERN EcoPlots</a>, which provides the ability to extract subsets of flora data across multiple data collections and bioregions.</p>
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-08-23
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-12-04
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-11
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Department for Environment and Water, South Australian Government
81-95 Waymouth Street, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Adelaide
South Australia
5000
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- 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.
- Credit
- 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.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Department for Environment and Water, South Australian Government
81-95 Waymouth Street, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
81-95 Waymouth Street
Adelaide
South Australia
5000
Australia
Point of contact
Department for Environment and Water, South Australian Government - Owens, Helen ()
81-95 Waymouth Street, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
81-95 Waymouth Street
Adelaide
South Australia
5000
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Various locations mainly across South Australia, but also including Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1976-10-20
- Title
- Guide to a Native Vegetation Survey Using the Biological Survey of South Australia
- Website
-
Guide to a Native Vegetation Survey Using the Biological Survey of South Australia
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- mean canopy gap
- Metre
- mean crown depth
- Metre
- mean crown diameter
- Metre
- crown separation ratio average
- Unitless
- crown cover
- Unitless
- foliage projective cover
- Metre
- growth form
- Unitless
- last fire year
- Unitless
- plant count
- Number
- plant cover-abundance
- Unitless
- plant presence
- Unitless
- planted status
- Unitless
- scientific name
- Unitless
- stratum of dominant species
- Unitless
- structural formation
- Unitless
- fire scar
- Unitless
- vegetation stratum category
- Unitless
- canopy height
- Metre
- mean canopy openness
- Percent
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Plant Name Index
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- Fabales Bromhead
- Rosales Perleb
- Asparagales Link
- Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Brassicales Bromhead
- Apiales Nakai
- Poales Small
- Gentianales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Oxalidales Bercht. & J.Presl
- Laurales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Solanales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Asterales Link
- Sapindales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Saxifragales Bercht. & J.Presl
- Ranunculales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Myrtales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Dilleniaceae Salisb.
- Malpighiales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Lamiales Bromhead
- Cucurbitales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
- Aspleniaceae Newman
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- BDBSA
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- File name
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
-
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Plot Physical Description
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots API
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Plant Specimen Method
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Plant Opportunistic Observations
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Protocol - Fire Evidence Asessment
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Structural Formation Assessment Method
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Vegetation Assemblage Assessment Method
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Vegetation Canopy Cover Assessment
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Vegetation Overstorey Method
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal - Vegetation Species Assessment
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- <p>A range of standard assessment and sampling methods have been developed to describe the site based (quadrat) vegetation surveys, following the Biological Survey methodology. These are aimed to record the presence of plant species, the cover abundance of species present, the structural composition of the vegetation, the physical environment, condition of native vegetation and, the presence/absence of disturbances within a plot.</p> A summary of the methodologies for each vegetation assessment component is available on the <a href="https://linked.data.gov.au/def/bdbsa-cv/15c566ba-84f9-49af-86bc-edbc1c3815ac">Biological Databases of South Australia – Controlled Vocabularies</a>.</p> <p>Please see the links for detailed descriptions for the BDBSA Flora Survey Methods:</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="https://linked.data.gov.au/def/bdbsa-cv/596378b8-b28f-418e-aafe-92696534bb41">Fire Evidence Assessment Method</a></td> </tr> </tr> <td><a href="https://linked.data.gov.au/def/bdbsa-cv/ee399c85-9318-45cf-9d26-a5b612a7407f">Plant Opportunistic Observations Method</a></td> </tr> <td><a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/def/bdbsa-cv/e863e5bb-0f35-43a3-b563-8eef46501650">Plant Specimen Method</a></td> </tr> </tr> <td><a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/def/bdbsa-cv/5ec8d644-39af-4105-91b5-a550737def56">Structural Formation Assessment Method</a></td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/def/bdbsa-cv/1ed926d7-b7d3-4fb4-9214-86e68ba0cbfa">Vegetation Age Class Assessment Method</a></td> </tr> </tr> <td><a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/def/bdbsa-cv/86bce58f-fb58-453b-a343-f905e3329878">Vegetation Assemblage Assessment Method</a></td> </tr> <td><a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/def/bdbsa-cv/e4293682-d889-446c-9e36-f43144faf3a0">Vegetation Canopy Cover Assessment Method</a></td> </tr> </tr> <td><a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/def/bdbsa-cv/b8357454-8d38-4169-99bc-c3afb7cb084a">Vegetation Overstorey Measurement Method</a></td> </tr> </tr> <td><a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/def/bdbsa-cv/b191a8a4-1a4d-42b8-9075-cac54b99d67a">Vegetation Species Assessment Method</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p>
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/0581dc78-1c52-430f-9024-9d1016b7aafe
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0581dc78-1c52-430f-9024-9d1016b7aafe
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-08-23T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-11T22:59:23.399659+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Overviews
Spatial extent
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