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Biological Surveys of South Australia, Vegetation Surveys

Created 10/01/2026

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 record is a subset, focusing on the methodology known as the 'Biological Survey of South Australia Vegetation Surveys' and forms an important component of the BDBSA. This dataset includes vegetation structural attributes, observations on individual plants such as stem diameter, growth form, plant height, and plant community measures such as crown density, canopy cover, as well as plant occurrence data. Preliminary data associated with site description that include soil and landform related parameters are also included in this record. The resulting dataset provides a comprehensive record of plant diversity across sites ground-truthed during a diverse range of biological survey projects undertaken in South Australia and provides a basis for future updating of mapping 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 Data Infrastructure, which provides the ability to extract subsets of vegetation data across multiple data collections and bioregions for more than 31 variables including stem diameter, tree crown extent, and number of individual plants.

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Title Biological Surveys of South Australia, Vegetation Surveys
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/dffdfa9a-0a95-4ca5-96f0-bf0c6914cd49
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
felicity.smith@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 20/10/1976
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Biological Surveys of South Australia, Vegetation Surveys". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/biological-surveys-of-south-australia-vegetation-surveys