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GBIF data help clarify links between environment and species composition

15th November 2011

Study used over 300,000 mammal records from US to assess importance of climate, land cover on species presence at various scales MEDIA RELEASE: For im…

Two Biodiversity Informatics Colleagues Passed Away

1st November 2011

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is sorry to announce the sad news that two of our close overseas colleagues in biodiversity informatics have passe…

The Atlas has upgraded their biocache

9th September 2011

The Atlas of Living Australia is pleased to announce that they have upgraded their Atlas’ biocache. So what is the biocache, you might ask? It&#…

Beauty from nature: art of the Scott sisters

30th August 2011

An exhibition featuring illustrations of butterflies, moths, caterpillars and plants by Harriet and Helena Scott, two of 19th century Australia’s mo…

The Atlas now has over 25 million records

30th August 2011

The recent addition of 1.2 million records from the Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG) Garden Bird Surveys data set brings the grand total of Atlas r…

GBIF and ALA help map plants used in Aboriginal medicine

30th August 2011

The innovative use of data accessible through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) may help to identify areas of high cultural value, b…

ALA dives deeper into the marine realm

17th August 2011

The ALA is diving deeper into the marine realm with more than 900 new images of Australian coral species from ‘Charlie’ Veron. To see t…

IdentifyLife launched at the International Botanical Congress

Atlas of Living Australia Media Release “The beginning of wisdom is to call a thing by its right name.” Chinese proverb IdentifyLife was launched…

What’s living in your street? The Atlas of Living Australia will tell you.

Atlas of Living Australia Media Release What’s living in your street? The Atlas of Living Australia will tell you. Within 5 km of News Limited in Ho…