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
Publisher
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
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- 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
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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
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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
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- 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/
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- 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}.
- 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
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Island Weeds database - vernacular names
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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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
- 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
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urn:uuid/5d8c9601-59e4-4914-b1d7-f064b60299cc
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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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
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