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The Biological Databases of South Australia Flora Survey Collection

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 04/03/2026

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The Biological Databases of South Australia (BDBSA) is South Australia's flora and fauna database that stores and manages specimen and observation records. This metadata record is the Flora Survey component that contains 1,050,631 plant measurements collected from 224,572 sites, across 5565 plant species since 1976. The dataset contains important vegetation structural attributes, with parameters such as crown openness, crown depth and crown separation ratio, including observations on plant occurrence data and fire disturbance related parameters. The resulting database provides a comprehensive record of biodiversity across sites visited during a diverse range of biodiversity projects undertaken in South Australia and provides a basis for future monitoring or other relevant work such as species modelling.

Only validated BDBSA data is made publicly available and all records of sensitive taxa have been masked from the dataset. Data is accessible from the TERN EcoPlots, which provides the ability to extract subsets of flora data across multiple data collections and bioregions.

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Field Value
Title The Biological Databases of South Australia Flora Survey Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7c095411-6fba-43d7-b712-5824b71f678b
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
helen.owens@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 20/10/1976
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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      ],
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      ],
      [
        112.127266,
        -10.587553
      ],
      [
        112.127266,
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      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "The Biological Databases of South Australia Flora Survey Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/the-biological-databases-of-south-australia-flora-survey-collection