Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)
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The biodiversity database holds Antarctic and subantarctic flora and fauna in support of the SCAR Life Sciences programme
Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)
for 2006-2013.
EBA will explore
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EBA is the follow on project from the now finished Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic terrestrial and limnetic ecosystems (RiSCC) project. This database will focus on the Terrestrial and Limnetic domains.
If there is any data (checklists, observations for new or existing collections) that should be present in this database, or corrections to existing taxa or observations,
- For data submissions, please use our Electronic Data Submission form
- For corrections and/or comments, please contact the Data Centre via the feedback form.
Search for species, common names, taxonomic authorities.
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Latest taxa added/checked
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Find data by species, position, data collection.
Use these links to search for observations/samples via collections, bioregions etc.
If there is any data (checklists, observations for new or existing collections) that should be present in this database, please contact the Data Centre via the feedback form.
Collections
List all Data Collections from Field campaigns.
List new Data Collections sorted by publication date
List by taxa groups -
Birds, Penguins, Seals, Whales, Diatoms, Protists, Spiders, Insects, Lichens, Other invertebrates, Vascular plants, Cephalopods, Crustacea, Fish, Zooplankton, Arthropods, Mosses, Fungi, Liverworts, Mites, Rotifers, Tardigrades, Micrognathozoa, Microbiota, Nematodes, Springtails, Mollusces, Worms, Phytoplankton, Krill,
Find a collection -
Observations
Search for data - by position, measurement type
Given two or more species or families - return the places where they are commonly occur
Given two or more places - return species that are common to those places
Custodian access: Observer login for
observations and related data.
Bioregions
The terrestrial areas of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic are being classified into regions for comparing biodiversity and patterns of distribution.
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Biogeographical analyses of the Antarctic region has recently been published by Diversity and Distributions.
Download the shapefiles associated with these analyses (including expert-defined bioregions, the new Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions and the Antarctic Specially Protected Area network). - View a polar projection map (pdf) of the region boundaries.
- List of Antarctic Environmental Gradient (AEG) Core Sites from the now finished Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic terrestrial and limnetic ecosystems (RiSCC)
- More information on the Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA) programme.
The Marine areas are defined by SCAR-MarBIN. See a map of the extents of data that can be used in this portal.
Alien species in the Antarctic or sub-Antarctic
- View the Aliens in Antarctica Seed Database
- Download the seed data used in the PNAS manuscript ‘A continent wide risk assessment for the establishment of non-indigenous species in Antarctica’.
For a complete list of alien species see the alien species checklist, or use this form to search via region or alien status.
iMAGEantarctica IA14299 Caption: Rabbit caught eating grass Location: Macquarie Island Photographer: Clarke, Christopher R Date: 30-Jul-2007 © Christopher R. Clarke 2007 |
EBA Listserver
The EBA Listserver at eba@lists.aad.gov.au is used to allow members to contribute and receive messages. You must have valid registered email address in order to send emails.
To subscribe to this new list, please contact the Data Centre using the request/feedback form and mention the EBA list server.
Publishing observations to external organisations
The Data Centre has been sending biological distribution data via the Darwin Core schema using Distributed Generic Information Retrieval (DiGIR) query protocol to GBIF and OBIS since December 2003. The data is now also being aggregated at SCAR-MarBIN, which as of May 2006, has being recognised as the Antarctic regional node of OBIS. As at June 2008, the Data Centre contribution is over 750,000 records.
See the list of published data collections with observation counts.
 SCAR - Scientific Commitee on Antarctic Research |
 SCAR-MarBIN - SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network |
 CAML - Census of Antarctic Marine Life |
 OBIS - Ocean Biogeographic Information System |
 GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility |
Data Centre
Science Bibliographies - there are several sets that cover Antarctic biology.
External sites
Register of Antartic Marine Species (RAMS) at SCAR-MarBIN
Catalogue of Life - aims to be a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth with over 1,100,000 species.
Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) - constructed by Tony Rees, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and useful for checking all genera and higher taxa ranks. Contains Tony's powerful taxa matching algorithm called TAXAMATCH that can deal with spelling mistakes etc.
Web-based Resources for Biodiversity - a preliminary selection - maintained by Dr Tony Rees, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre.
