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Weeds on Western Australia's Islands: A historical database with records spanning from 1913 to 2014

The island weeds database contains weed records for 697 islands and 1995 plant species. Data sources cited span between 1913 and 2014. To compound the value of the database, original species identifications were verified by Parks and Wildlife botanists and species names were updated to current taxonomy using the WA census data housed within MAX Version 3.0 (Woodman and Gioia 2016). We do not present any interpretation of the data with this data submission. GPS coordinates for weeds were largely unavailable, so most coordinates provided within the database are island centroids. Woodman, S. & Gioia, P. (2016) Max Version 3. Department of Parks and Wildlife, Perth. Available from: http://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/max .

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2014-12-31
Date (Publication)
2015-04-30
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.4227/05/56D79D59C41D3
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australian Government - Lohr, Cheryl (Research Scientist)
Locked Bag 104 , Bentley Delivery Centre , 6983, Western Australia, Australia
Bentley Delivery Centre
Western Australia
6983
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
Alien plants pose a substantial threat to island ecosystems in Australia and worldwide. A better understanding of weed distributions is necessary to more effectively manage natural resources on islands. To address this need for Western Australian islands, the author created a database of all available records of alien plants on these islands. The broad goal of this project is to prioritize island management actions such that we maximize the number of achievable conservation outcomes for island biodiversity in the face of threats from invasive species. Western Australia has over 3,700 islands, many of which are essential for the survival of threatened species and provide critical breeding sites for seabirds and sea turtles. In some cases, islands support the last remaining populations of plant and animal species making their long term protection highly desirable. Many of Western Australia's islands are also popular sites for recreation, and tourism, and contain many culturally significant sites. Invasive species are the single biggest cause of loss of native species from islands across the globe. The increased use of islands by the public for recreation, and oil, gas and mining industries means an increased likelihood that invasive species will colonize pristine islands. This project will develop a decision support tool for day-to-day use in making accountable and cost-effective decisions about where to spend limited funding on management of islands to promote the persistence of native species. The decision support tool, which will be developed in collaboration with researchers from James Cook University, Queensland, will assist in prioritizing WA islands for conservation surveillance and management. The project will initially focus on the islands along the Pilbara coast between Exmouth Gulf and Eighty Mile Beach.
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.
Credit
The authors acknowledge the contributions of many original data collectors and the expertise and help of the Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife Plant Science Program and Herbarium and Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australian Government - Lohr, Cheryl (Research Scientist)
Locked Bag 104 , Bentley Delivery Centre , 6983, Western Australia, Australia
Locked Bag 104
Bentley Delivery Centre
Western Australia
6983
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

Description
Islands along the entire coastline of Western Australia.
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Temporal extent

Time period
1913-01-01 2014-12-31
Title
The status and distribution of non-native plants on the gazetted and territorial islands off the north coast of Western Australia.
Website
The status and distribution of non-native plants on the gazetted and territorial islands off the north coast of Western Australia.

Related documentation

Title
The status and distribution of non-native plants on the islands of the north coast of Western Australia.
Website
The status and distribution of non-native plants on the islands of the north coast of Western Australia.

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • INVASIVE SPECIES
  • EXOTIC SPECIES
  • PLANT DISEASES/DISORDERS/PESTS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
  • Landscape ecology
  • Terrestrial ecology
  • Conservation and biodiversity
  • Wildlife and habitat management
  • Environmental management
  • Ecology
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • field species name
  • Unitless
  • latitude
  • Degree
  • longitude
  • Degree
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Degree
  • Degree
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 500 km - < 1000 km or approximately 5 degrees - < 10 degrees
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • one off
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Carnarvon
  • Dampierland
  • Esperance Plains
  • Gascoyne
  • Hampton
  • Northern Kimberley
  • Pilbara
  • Swan
  • Coastal Plain
  • Victoria Bonaparte
  • Warren

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
Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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}.
Other constraints
(C)2016 Department of Parks and Wildlife, Western Australia. Rights owned by Department of Parks and Wildlife, Western Australia.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Island Weeds database - vernacular names

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Study site

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Island weeds- plant names

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Lohr Keighery_final

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Max_islands_weed_database_final

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Title
The status and distribution of alien plants on the islands of the south coast of Western Australia
Website
https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/conservation-management/forests/forest-produce/conservation_science_10.1_final.pdf

Abstract
The status and distribution of alien plants on the islands of the south coast of Western Australia

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
Meta-analysis : The author reviewed published and grey literature, environmental consultant reports and agency reports to collect historical records of non-native plant species on islands along the Western Australian coastline.

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:3577

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/5d8c9601-59e4-4914-b1d7-f064b60299cc

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5d8c9601-59e4-4914-b1d7-f064b60299cc

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-06-05T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:54:16.969546+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

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology Conservation and biodiversity Ecology Environmental management Landscape ecology Terrestrial ecology Wildlife and habitat management
GCMD Science Keywords
EXOTIC SPECIES INVASIVE SPECIES PLANT DISEASES/DISORDERS/PESTS

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