Overview

Biological data is a complex affair covering specimens, collectors, taxonomy, survey effort and a myriad of associated environment variables.

Each collection of data has its own requirements. This database has been designed to cater a wide variety of observations from collections collated from literature to ongoing observations from voyages. Work is in progress to amalgate as many observations and specimens as possible in the Terrestrial and Limnetic (freshwater, lakes) domain from the entire Antarctic and subantarctic and to record marine data for the Australian Program.

Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)

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 the evolutionary history of Antarctic biota, how biological diversity in the Antarctic influences ecosystem function, and how the biota will respond to environmental change.

EBA is the follow on project from the now-finished Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change (RiSCC) project. This database will focus on the Terrestrial and Limnetic domains.