A5043343861- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Research Data Management Practices
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Forest Management and Policy
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries
- Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Data Analysis with R
- Identification and Quantification in Food
ACT Government
2025
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2019-2025
Atlas of Living Australia
2019-2025
Museums Victoria
2021
Ocean Tracking Network
2019
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
2019
The Ohio State University
2019
Research Institute for Nature and Forest
2019
Abstract Bio‐logging data obtained by tagging animals are key to addressing global conservation challenges. However, the many thousands of existing bio‐logging datasets not easily discoverable, universally comparable, nor readily accessible through repositories and across platforms, slowing down ecological research effective management. A set universal standards is needed ensure discoverability, interoperability translation into management recommendations. We propose a standardisation...
Abstract Camera trapping has revolutionized wildlife ecology and conservation by providing automated data acquisition, leading to the accumulation of massive amounts camera trap worldwide. Although management processing trap‐derived Big Data are becoming increasingly solvable with help scalable cyber‐infrastructures, harmonization exchange remain limited, hindering its full potential. There is currently no widely accepted standard for exchanging data. The only existing proposal, “Camera Trap...
Today, at the international level, powerful data portals are available to biodiversity researchers and policymakers, offering increasingly robust computing network capacities capable services for internationally agreed-on standards. These accelerate individual complex workflows map data-driven research processes or even make them possible first time. At national however, alongside these developments, infrastructures needed take on tasks that cannot be easily funded addressed internationally....
Abstract Monitoring trends in animal populations arid regions is challenging due to remoteness and low population densities. However, detecting species' tracks or signs an effective survey technique for monitoring across large spatial temporal scales. In this study, we developed a simulation framework evaluate the performance of alternative track‐based designs at change species distributions Australia. We collated presence–absence records from 550 2‐ha plots 11 vertebrates over 13 years...
Camera trapping has revolutionized wildlife ecology and conservation by providing automated data acquisition, leading to the accumulation of massive amounts camera trap worldwide. Although management processing trap-derived Big Data are becoming increasingly solvable with help scalable cyber-infrastructures, harmonization exchange remain limited, hindering its full potential. We present a new format, Trap Package (Camtrap DP), designed allow users easily exchange, harmonize archive at local...
ABSTRACT ZoaTrack.org is a web application for visualising and analysing animal biotelemetry data. This online facility offers robust set of free highly accessible tools, which enables the non-specialist specialist to better manage, store, visualise analyse location The majority data stored in has been collected by animal-borne satellite devices (i.e. GPS ARGOS), but other types individual-based (mark-recapture, VHF, Acoustic) have also uploaded Zoatrack.org. platform its 8th year this paper...
Reversing global biodiversity loss will require transformational human actions and robust measurements of their effectiveness. Diversity assessment using environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a cutting-edge technique with the potential to address challenges measuring biodiversity. Vast amounts eDNA sequences eDNA-based species detections are generated in scientific studies. These datasets typically stored variety different repositories multiple formats, hindering reuse (Berry et al. 2020)....
To usefully describe sensor deployments on animals is a major challenge for advocates of data standards. Bio-logging studies also need to be documented in standard manner facilitate discovery and determine relevance? For systems aggregating biodiversity occurrence records, the use Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al. 2012) express species occurrences near ubiquitous. are universally multiple instances that output high quality spatial temporal recorded by specialists. There lot benefits summarising...
In 2019, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) ran a national consultation, clarifying long-held suspicion that while simple occurrence records provide invaluable discoverability and analysis for biodiversity data, lack contextual information on data collection methodology protocols limits its usefulness species abundance estimation time-series analysis. The consultation recognised ALA has strong leadership in standards development, our 12-year history investment projects engagement...
The Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) hosts both the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) Global Facility (GBIF) nodes within National Collections Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) business unit. OBIS-AU is led by NCMI Data Centre publishes marine biodiversity data in Darwin Core (DwC) standard via an Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), with over 450 datasets at present. GBIF node hosted a separate team Atlas of Living Australia (ALA),...
In recent years, bio-logging data, automatically gathered by sensors deployed on animals, has become one of the fastest growing sources biodiversity data. This is largely due to steadily declining mass, size and costs sensors, continuously opening new opportunities monitor species. While previously ‘tracking data’—data from spatially enabled such as GPS sensors—was most prominent, currently almost 70% all data comprised non-spatial e.g., physiological contrast community, where standards...
Animal-borne sensor data, along with other types of sensor-based observations, provide a growing volume and proportion documentation about biodiversity. These data differ from the traditional specimen, sampling human observation records for which Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG) originally designed Darwin Core standard. The original intention new TDWG Machine Observations Interest is to facilitate body work combining informatics expertise that subject matter experts document best...
The Data Standardisation Working Group pursues the recently formed International Bio-Logging Society's (IBioLS) objective “to progress standardisation of data protocols used within bio-logging community, with a view to making databases interoperable”. During 2017 and 2018, group has garnered lot interest across sector from well over 200 colleagues broad international representation device manufacturers, researchers, biodiversity experts database managers. Through series remote meetings,...
Over the past three years, Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), a data infrastructure in its own right and Australian node Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), has been both enjoying rapid growth (now with over 50 employees covering broad project portfolio), maturing as an organisation formal processes place for strategy workplan development, management planning. Having recently upgraded our core to align GBIF now sharing code base ingestion pipelines, we have working on extending...
The Atlas of Living Australia’s (ALA) Pre-ingestion Framework is our alternative to managing datasets via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility's (GBIF) Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). framework uses a system-agnostic Python codebase create and update Darwin Core archives: building an archive from core extension csv files, merging two archives together, deleting records identifying duplicates based on identifiers. dynamicly supports current GBIF namespace terms. Previously, this...
One of the most important components Atlas Living Australia (ALA) is our taxonomic backbone, comprised an index species names with a suite web services for matching and delivering information pages. The built by merging lists from multiple Australian authoritative sources into single tree. Where primary data are incomplete, we attempt to pad out missing genera alternative sources, example, using Catalog Life some fungi branches, classification kingdoms: Viruses, Chromista, Protozoa Bacteria....
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) are two leading infrastructures serving biodiversity community. In 2020, ALA’s occurrence records management systems reached end life after more than 10 years operation, ALA embarked on a project to replace them. Significant overlap exists in function GBIF data ingestion pipeline systems. Instead developing new from scratch, we initiated better align infrastructures. collaboration brings benefits such...