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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

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

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
  • 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
Vertebrate Survey Protocols

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
  • ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • BIRDS
  • MAMMALS
  • FISH
  • REPTILES
  • AMPHIBIANS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Environmental assessment and monitoring
  • Conservation and biodiversity
  • Terrestrial ecology
  • Biogeography and phylogeography
  • Animal physiological ecology
  • Ecology
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • 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
  • Unitless
  • Millimetre
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Gram
  • Millimetre
  • Millimetre
  • Millimetre
  • Unitless
  • Millimetre
  • Millimetre
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Millimetre
  • Millimetre
  • Number
  • Number
  • Millimetre
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Millimetre
  • Millimetre
  • Millimetre
  • Millimetre
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 meter - < 30 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • irregular
Australian Faunal Directory
  • MAMMALIA
  • REPTILIA
  • AMPHIBIA
  • ACTINOPTERYGII
  • AVES
  • PETROMYZONTIDA
  • CHONDRICHTHYES
  • MYXINI
  • PSOCODEA
  • CRUSTACEA
  • CEPHALOPODA
  • HEXAPODA

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
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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}.

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

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:&nbsp;<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:&nbsp;<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:&nbsp;<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:&nbsp;<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
urn:uuid/8571ff13-bc54-4f0f-a51f-f34677814ae6

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/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

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

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Animal physiological ecology Biogeography and phylogeography Conservation and biodiversity Ecology Environmental assessment and monitoring Terrestrial ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
AMPHIBIANS ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES BIRDS FISH MAMMALS REPTILES

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