Atlas of Living Australia

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]

Atlas of Living Australia

Available in	English
URL	www.ala.org.au
Commercial	No
Launched	October 2010
Current status	Active

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

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. Belbin, Lee; Wallis, Elycia; Hobern, Donald; Zerger, Andre (21 April 2021). "The Atlas of Living Australia: History, current state and future directions". Biodiversity Data Journal. 9: e65023. doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e65023. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 8081701. PMID 33935559.
4. Foden, Blake (6 June 2018). "Internationally respected Canberra scientist killed in head-on crash". The Canberra Times. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
5. "The Atlas of Living Australia". Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. 20 September 2010. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
6. 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.
7. Atlas of Living Australia: About Us. Retrieved 08 January 2024.

External links

• Belbin, L.; Williams, K.J. (2015). "Towards a national bio-environmental data facility: experiences from the Atlas of Living Australia". International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 30 (1): 108–125. doi:10.1080/13658816.2015.1077962. ISSN 1365-8816. S2CID 12847147.