Atlas of Living Australia

Atlas of Living Australia
Web address www.ala.org.au
Commercial? No
Available in English
Launched October 2010
Current status Active

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is an online repository of information about Australian plants, animals,[1] and fungi.[2] The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is an organisation significantly involved in the development of the ALA.[3] The Atlas of Living Australia is the Australian node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.[3] The ALA is being use to help assess suitability of revegetation projects by determining species vulnerability to climatic and atmospheric change.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "John La Salle, The Atlas of Living Australia". The Australian (News Limited). 8 December 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. ↑ May, Tom W. (2011). "An overview of the fungi of Melbourne". Victorian Naturalist 128 (5, sp. iss. S1): 183–197.
  3. 1 2 "The Atlas of Living Australia". Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  4. ↑ Booth, Trevor H.; Williams, Kristen J.; Belbin, Lee (2012). "Developing biodiverse plantings suitable for changing climatic conditions 2: Using the Atlas of Living Australia". Ecological Management & Restoration 13 (3): 274–281. doi:10.1111/emr.12000.
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