Atlas of Living Australia explained

Atlas of Living Australia
Commercial:	No
Language:	English
Launch Date:	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] [3]} Development started in 2006.^[4] The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an organisation significantly involved in the development of the ALA.^[5] The Atlas of Living Australia is the Australian node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.^[5] The ALA is being used to help assess suitability of revegetation projects by determining species vulnerability to climatic and atmospheric change.^[6]

The Atlas of Living Australia is hosted by CSIRO and supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.^[7]

See also

• Australasian Virtual Herbarium
• Australian Plant Name Index
• Encyclopedia of Life
• GBIF

External links

• Belbin. L.. Williams. K.J.. Towards a national bio-environmental data facility: experiences from the Atlas of Living Australia. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 30. 1. 2015. 108–125. 1365-8816. 10.1080/13658816.2015.1077962. 12847147.

Notes and References

1. News: John La Salle, The Atlas of Living Australia . 8 December 2012. The Australian. News Limited. 25 February 2013.
2. May, Tom W. . An overview of the fungi of Melbourne . Victorian Naturalist . 2011 . 128 . 5, sp. iss. S1 . 183–197.
3. Belbin. Lee. Wallis. Elycia. Hobern. Donald. Zerger. Andre. 2021-04-21. The Atlas of Living Australia: History, current state and future directions. Biodiversity Data Journal. en. 9. e65023. 10.3897/BDJ.9.e65023 . 33935559. 8081701 . 1314-2828. free.
4. News: Internationally respected Canberra scientist killed in head-on crash. Foden. Blake. 6 June 2018. The Canberra Times. Fairfax Media. 30 July 2018.
5. Web site: The Atlas of Living Australia . 20 September 2010 . . 25 February 2013 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130121114220/http://www.csiro.au/en/Outcomes/Environment/Biodiversity/The-Atlas-of-Living-Australia.aspx . 21 January 2013 .
6. Booth, Trevor H. . Williams, Kristen J. . Belbin, Lee . Developing biodiverse plantings suitable for changing climatic conditions 2: Using the Atlas of Living Australia . Ecological Management & Restoration . 2012 . 13 . 3 . 274–281 . 10.1111/emr.12000.
7. https://www.ala.org.au/about-ala/ Atlas of Living Australia: About Us.