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  1. Site Page: Play the mimicry game with Australia’s velvet ants – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 8th April 2020 CSIRO and the University of Leeds are calling on people to play a short online game that will help investigate mimicry among velvet ant species. A curious kind of wasp Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are wasps that parasitise bees, carefully invading their nests and targeting their larvae by laying their eggs on or in this unsuspecting fresh food source...

  2. Site Page: Area Report – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 30th January 2012 The Area Report options generate a report for a selected region/area. There is a simpler interactive version and a detailed PDF area report that contains more detail. Note: The Detailed area report can take more than 10 minutes to generate. Please therefore be cautious about the size of the area you are reporting on. We […] Area reports The Area Report options generate a report for a selected region/area...

  3. Site Page: ALA Educational Resources for primary school classes – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 13th March 2015 It can be beneficial (and more importantly, fun!) to move the science classes out of the classroom and into the outdoors, and primary school teacher Wendy Johnson from Gippsland Grammar in Victoria has done just that, by utilising the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and its educational resources with her students...

  4. Site Page: Australia’s bathing birdies – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 30th May 2016 Citizen scientists help uncover the secrets of bird baths across Australia Dr Gráinne Cleary from Deakin University’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences, recently published Australia’s largest ever study into the use of urban and rural bird baths in private gardens...

  5. Site Page: Wildlife Spotter – ABC’s citizen science project – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 1st August 2016 This year’s ABC citizen science project for National Science Week is called Wildlife Spotter and it kicks off today, Monday 1 August. Wildlife Spotter is calling all keen citizen scientists to help identify animals captured by hidden cameras. To join in go to www.wildlifespotter.net.au. Researchers have set up automatic cameras in tropical rainforests, dry rangelands, and cities across Australia to snap wildlife day and night...

  6. Site Page: BioCollect for citizen science – Atlas of Living Australia

    Citizen science is becoming an increasingly significant and important contributor to the pool of data being used to create a more accurate picture of our biodiversity and ultimately advance scientific knowledge. Since 2010, the Atlas of Living Australia has been working with hundreds of organisations across Australia to support citizen science activities. We have gained a deep understanding of the citizen science landscape across all biodiversity-related areas...

  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: Points to Grid – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 1st February 2012 The Points to Grid option accepts a set of taxon occurrence records (single species or more likely, an assemblage) and transforms these points into three separate outputs that are all related to a user-nominated grid size: A grid cell by species composition matrix. The number of occurrences of each of the species within each of the grid cells is tabulated and a CSV-format file produced. An occurrence density map...

  9. Site Page: Sandbox – custom search facets for your data – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 11th October 2012 A few months ago, John Tann posted a blog on how to use the sandbox with a list of names. This blog will focus on point data you would like to use within the Atlas. The sandbox handles species occurrence data but can also be used to upload a list coordinates (latitude, longitude) with any number of ad-hoc properties associated with these data. Scientific names or common names are optional...

  10. Site Page: Environmental monitoring workshops for Queensland’s Nature Refuges – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 27th June 2018 The Condamine Alliance is working with Nature Refuge landowners to teach best practice environmental monitoring using the ALA’s BioCollect tool. The Condamine Alliance is a not-for-profit charity working with communities in the Condamine catchment in Queensland (one of the largest catchments in the Murray-Darling Basin including the towns of Chinchilla, Warwick, Toowoomba and Dalby)...