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Site Page: Import Assemblage – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 5th February 2012 You can import or upload an assemblage of LSIDs in a CSV file to the Spatial Portal. The intention is to generalize the functionality to cater for an assemblage described by any combination of scientific names, Common names and LSIDs similar to the current Search for multiple species by scientific or common name. Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) An LSID is a persistent, unique identifier used for identifying any piece of biological information on the web...

Site Page: eDNA records now available on ALA – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 11th February 2020 From monitoring fish species on reefs to mapping microbes in soils or searching for evidence of a monster in Loch Ness, eDNA based surveys are a scientific frontier. Short for environmental DNA, eDNA is the DNA found in cells shed by plants, animals and microbes into the environment, just as we shed hair and skin cells...

Site Page: How to Work With Data – Atlas of Living Australia

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Site Page: ALA for government and land managers – Atlas of Living Australia

As Australia’s leading biodiversity data repository, the ALA is a vital resource for natural resource managers, rangers, landowners, community groups and NGOs as well as policy and decision makers responsible for biodiversity, ecosystem services, biosecurity and conservation management. Explore & contribute Explore regions Browse pre-defined state, territory, local government areas, and biogeographic regions using a map-based biodiversity discovery tool...

Site Page: ALA new website design – now live – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 18th July 2019 Here is a summary of changes we’ve launched as part of the redesign. Improvements to navigation The ALA homepage has a new layout with the following features: the search bar is front and centre, allowing you to search species, data sets, site pages, and more improved header and footer menus a new section to help each of our different user groups navigate to their most popular tools and services snapshots of recent sightings, and news and media...

Biodiversity Science project: Phylo

Phylo is a game in which participants align sequences of DNA by shifting and moving puzzle pieces. Your score depends on how you arrange these pieces. You will be competing against a computer and other players in the community. Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve a common problem -- Multiple Sequence Alignments...

Support article: Infrastructure overview

The ALA is built using a multi-tiered architecture using open source libraries and open standards at its core. The diagram below depicts a high level view of the applications and components that made the core ALA. Front-end apps Most front end applications in the ALA are web applications that can be accessed via an Internet browser such as Google, Chrome or Firefox. The set of applications is also complemented by native Android and iOS mobile applications for some of our systems...

Site Page: ALA in action: Trevor Booth, CSIRO Land and Water – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 26th February 2018 Trevor Booth uses the ALA to study where particular tree species can grow in Australia and overseas, under both current and future climatic conditions. In this article, Trevor describes some of his work and provides some useful tips for anyone using the ALA’s mapping and analysis features to study plant or animal distributions...

Site Page: Selection of multiple layers – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 31st January 2012 The Spatial Portal will remember a previous set of (environmental) layers where there is an option to select multiple layers, as in most of the analysis tools and for adding layers to the map. Any set of environmental layers can be uploaded, pasted, or downloaded for later use. The ‘Short name’ of the layer is used for brevity. See About Short Names » Layer Set Options Choose to use the pre-set 5 most independent terrestrial layers for analysis...

Site Page: DNA key to identifying eggs in museum collections – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 15th January 2021 A new study shows how the scientific value of collections can be improved by DNA technologies that provide high-confidence taxonomic identifications of specimens. There are 24,000 clutches of bird eggs from more than 1,000 species in the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC). Here are the eggs used in this study. Image credit: ANWC, CSIRO...