Fauna Survey Data from Biological Databases of South Australia
<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 record is the fauna component that contains over 2.3 million measurements collected from over 200,000 sites, across 726 species since 1976. This dataset includes occurrence data and morphometric information for invertebrates, fish, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. 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 TERN EcoPlots portal, which provides the ability to extract subsets of fauna data across multiple data collections and bioregions for more than 27 variables including animal body size, body length, head length, number of individual animals, and number of individual plants. </p>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-08-23
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-06-21
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-11
- Edition
- 1.0
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
- 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
- Vertebrate Survey Protocols
- Website
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Vertebrate Survey Protocols
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- animal macrohabitat description
- Unitless
- animal body length
- Millimetre
- animal observation height
- Unitless
- animal pouch condition
- Unitless
- animal presence status
- Unitless
- animal testes condition
- Unitless
- animal body mass
- Gram
- disc length
- Millimetre
- forearm length
- Millimetre
- fork length
- Millimetre
- gravid state
- Unitless
- head length
- Millimetre
- invertebrate carapace length
- Millimetre
- fauna teat condition
- Unitless
- last fire year
- Unitless
- lower jaw fork length
- Millimetre
- mantle length
- Millimetre
- animal count
- Number
- number of youngs in pouch
- Number
- pes length
- Millimetre
- release status
- Unitless
- scientific name
- Unitless
- snout length
- Millimetre
- snout-vent length
- Millimetre
- tail length
- Millimetre
- turtle carapace length
- Millimetre
- vaginal condition
- Unitless
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Faunal Directory
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
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots portal
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots API
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- <p>Please see the links for detailed descriptions of the BDBSA fauna survey protocols:</p> <p>Fauna survey methods: <a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/prez/bdbsa-cv/v/collection/bdbs-cv:c6258421-d5d1-4bf0-98c5-d2bc2a1af688">BDBSA Fauna Survey Protocols</a></p> <p>Source document of fauna survey protocols: <a href="https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/vertebrate_survey_manual.pdf">Owens, H (2000) Guidelines for vertebrate surveys in South Australia using the biological survey of South Australia, Department for Environment and Heritage</a></p> <p>Site-specific information and metadata: <a href="https://apps.environment.sa.gov.au/emap/envmaps-query.do?cmd=su.SurveySummaryMain">BDBSA Project list and metadata</a></p> <p>Plot physical description: <a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/prez/bdbsa-cv/v/collection/bdbs-cv:15c566ba-84f9-49af-86bc-edbc1c3815ac/bdbs-cv:4685d5a2-68e7-4a68-ad86-a35ac9fc8624">Plot physical description</a></p>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/8571ff13-bc54-4f0f-a51f-f34677814ae6
- 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/8571ff13-bc54-4f0f-a51f-f34677814ae6
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-08-23T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-11T22:45:14.866966+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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Associated resources
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