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  1. Site Page: Prediction case study – Atlas of Living Australia

    Where could the Greater Glider be? Author: Dr Jane Elith, The University of Melbourne, School of Botany Dr Jane Elith, The University of Melbourne About the author 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 Eucalyptusleaves at night and shelters in tree hollows during the day...

  2. Site Page: International Botanical Congress Commences 23 July 2011 in Melbourne – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 24th June 2011 Registrations are open for the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Australia, from 23 – 30 July 2011. The IBC already has 1806 delegates registered to attend, with more expected to register within the coming weeks and on site. Read more Back to Articles

  3. Site Page: Major re-work of spatial portal released – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 29th June 2011 The ALA’s spatial portal and mapping tools have been greatly enhanced and are now available at http://spatial.ala.org.au. This has been a major re-work of the portal, simplifying the user interface and adding a lot more flexibility to the manipulation of species, areas and layers. A list of available ‘layers’ is at http://spatial.ala.org.au/layers...

  4. Site Page: Source code released for XML-based LSID resolver, Linked Data service – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 29th June 2011 The National Species List (NSL) team has released the source code underpinning parts of the NSL interim service layer. This interim service layer is currently serving data from the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) and the Australian Plant Names Index (APNI) at biodiversity.org.au, but is built to accommodate delivering arbitrary XML...

  5. Site Page: ALA helps develop an Indian Biodiversity Informatics Facility – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 1st July 2011 John Tann, Australian Museum / Atlas of Living Australia, June 2011 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is mentoring the Wildlife Institute of India to build a node for aggregating and sharing data about Indian biodiversity.This Indian data node will connect to other countries and agencies currently contributing to GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Informatics Facility...

  6. Site Page: Follow camel trek collecting animals in the Simpson Desert, Far West Queensland – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 1st July 2011 By Paul Flemons, Australian Museum Follow Dr Beth Mantle from CSIRO and Paul Flemons from the Australian Museum as they trek by camel in the North Simpson Desert, Far Western Queensland, finding and collecting insects and other invertebrates of the remote red dune country...

  7. Site Page: Simpson Desert full of life on camel trek Day 3 – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 5th July 2011 Camp Day 3 (July 4th 2011). Lat -23 .93926. Long 138.57945. Elev 94 m. Time 4.06 pm. By Paul Flemons, Australian Museum Weather has been fine with a cool wind – good walking conditions. Tip: Hover mouse over photo to see caption. Click on photos to see different sizes and/or make a comment on Flickr. Long day of trekking – up at 6am, breakfast 7am...

  8. Site Page: Collecting in the Simpson Desert Day 4 – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 6th July 2011 Camp Day 4 (July 5th). Lat -23 .92613. Long 138.62978. Elev 70 m Time 7.19 pm. By Paul Flemons, Australian Museum Weather has been beautiful today, cool breeze now that the sun has gone down. Tip: Hover mouse over photo to see the caption. Click on photos to see different sizes and/or make a comment on Flickr. We are camped next to Pulchera Waterhole, full of water after the rains of the past few years...

  9. Site Page: Natural History Collections Register – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 8th July 2011 The Natural History Collections (NHC) register is designed to provide information about the natural history collections held in Australian museums, herbaria, universities, government departments, including the CSIRO, and other organisations and provide access to their digitised records. See http://collections.ala.org.au/ to explore our natural history collections...

  10. Site Page: Collecting in the Simpson Desert by camel, Day 5 – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 7th July 2011 Camp Day 5 (July 6th). Lat -23 .88830. Long 138.60693. Time 7.37 pm. By Paul Flemons, Australian Museum Weather magnificent blue sky very light breeze. Last night was very cold. The clear skies will ensure another cold night tonight. Tip: Hover mouse over photo to see the caption. Click on photos to see different sizes and/or make a comment on Flickr. We are camped on a dry clay pan north of Pulchera Waterhole...