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  1. Support article: Wind, wind-farms, birds and bats

    Insights and predictions from the Atlas of Living Australia Authors: Eric Woehler and Lee Belbin Dr Eric Woehler Lee Belbin Wind is a significant and growing alternative energy source for Australia and other countries, with areas in southern Australia identified as suitable sites for wind farms...

  2. Support article: Finding Pinot Noir – an example of how to use the Atlas

    November 29, 2012 By Lee Belbin I like good wine. Fortunately these days, Australia has a huge number of excellent value wines. After many years enjoying Australia’s wonderful Shiraz, I’ve transitioned through Cabernets to Pinot Noir. However, finding good Pinot Noir is a lot harder than finding good Shiraz. So that brings me to the point of this article...

  3. Support article: Classification case study

    Landscape classification using the Atlas of Living Australia Author: Professor Brendan Mackey, The Fenner School of Environment and Society. The Australian National University Prof Brendan Mackey, The Australian National University Introduction Our capacity to analyse space and time patterns in biological, ecological and environmental phenomena was transformed in the 1980’s by Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and computer-based environmental modelling...

  4. Support article: Scatterplot case study

    Exploring patterns in biodiversity data Author: Dr Ben Raymond, Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart Dr Ben Raymond, Australian Antarctic Division The Atlas of Living Australia provides access to a wealth of biodiversity data, as well as a suite of analysis tools that allow users to explore patterns in species occurrences and their relationships to environmental conditions...

  5. Support article: Tabulation Case Study

    Author: Lee Belbin Tabulation in the Spatial Portal of the Atlas of Living Australia is a powerful way of comparing how species and areas are partitioned. Think of tabulations as the categorical (class) equivalent to scatterplots. Scatterplots display species occurrences against two environmental variables represented as X and Y-axes, for example ‘Mean annual temperature’ or ‘Annual rainfall’. Tabulations replace these X and Y axes of continuous numeric values with categories or classes...

  6. Support article: Where could the Greater Glider be?

    Ecologists, field naturalists and all sorts of people might ask such a question. The greater glider, Petauroides volans (Kerr, 1792), is Australia's largest glider, an arboreal marsupial that feeds on Eucalyptus leaves at night and shelters in tree hollows during the day. We have records of where it has been observed, but where else might it be? Species distribution models are often used to answer such questions...

  7. Support article: Compare areas

    Compare areas is a simple tool that will show the differences between any two defined areas in terms of species composition and area. To compare the species in 2 areas: 1. On the spatial portal page, select Add to map | Area to define the areas to be compared. Areas can be generated or determined by any of the options available under Add to Map | Area. 2. Define the second area in the same way. 3. Select Tools | Compare points The Compare points popup wizard will open...

  8. Support article: Scatterplot

    Please note: this guide has been written in relation to version 2.0 of the spatial portal due to brought into production in 2019. A different version of the portal will allow similar functions with some small differences in the user interface. If you are unable to access a required function, please contact support@ala.org.au. The scatterplot function links the sampled values of any two environmental variables on a species (or genus etc) with the map...

  9. Support article: Point Comparisons

    Please note: this guide has been written in relation to version 2.0 of the spatial portal due to brought into production in 2019. A different version of the portal will allow similar functions with some small differences in the user interface. If you are unable to access a required function, please contact support@ala.org.au. This option is presented as a quick way of comparing the environments of a few points...

  10. Support article: Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence

    Eucalyptus gunnii AOO and EOO Area of Occupancy (AOO) and Extent of Occurrence (EOO) are two ‘statistics’ used by the IUCN for their Red List of Threatened Species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/). Their Red List of Categories and Criteria (IUCN 2012) defines these terms as follows- “Area of occupancy [AOO] is defined as the area within its ‘extent of occurrence’ which is occupied by a taxon, excluding cases of vagrancy...