Antarctic Biodiversity Database

The biodiversity database is planned to be a reference on Antarctic and subantarctic flora and fauna collated by the Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change (RiSCC) group and developed by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.


Searches are available in the following areas:


Taxonomy

Protection and convention measures (protected species)

Observations

Scientific Bibliographies

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Antarctic Biodiversity Database
Date (Publication)
2002-04-17
Edition
1

Originator

AADC, D.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

AADC, DATA OFFICER
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

AADC, DATA OFFICER
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/antarctic_biodiversity_db

Status
On going

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

Extent

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Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1995-09-30
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CHELICERATES > ARACHNIDS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > HEXAPODS > INSECTS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > FLATWORMS/FLUKES/TAPEWORMS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ROUNDWORMS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS)
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS)
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > FUNGI > LICHENS
Keywords
  • BIODIVERSITY
  • DATABASE
  • FAUNA
  • FLORA
  • OBSERVATIONS
  • PROTECTED SPECIES
  • PROTECTION AND CONVENTION MEASURES
  • RISCC
  • SCIENTIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHIES
  • SPECIES
  • TAXONOMY
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD SURVEYS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
  • COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
licence
Other constraints
The data are accessible via the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license

Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=antarctic_biodiversity_db when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
2002-04-17T00:00:00
OnLine resource
GET DATA

Biodiversity Database homepage

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Biodiversity taxonomy search

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Biodiversity protection and convention measures search

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Biodiversity observations search

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Values provided in temporal coverage are approximate only.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2018-04-26 - record updated by Dave Connell.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/antarctic_biodiversity_db

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

AADC, DATA OFFICER
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
04bd98c9-aa8f-4a8d-9a4e-2fc445694321

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T04:04:06

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/antarctic_biodiversity_db

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2002-04-17T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2018-04-26

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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