1. Australian Antarctic Data Centre
2. Discover and Manage Data
3. Records
4. AAS_4628_NNID

Description

Since 2004, scientists, staff and expeditioners on Australian Antarctic Division voyages and stations have recorded non-native invertebrates and other biosecurity risk material, such as plant matter or soil, through the environmental incident reporting system. All reports made relating to biosecurity risk material detections since 2004 were extracted from this database. These reports were in relation to the four Australian Antarctic stations (Casey, Mawson, Davis and Macquarie Island) as well as vessels and aircraft travelling to these stations, noting that some vessels were chartered from other national operators. The notes of each report were read to determine (where possible) the location and habitat (e.g. consumables, cargo) of each detection, and whether it comprised living or dead material. The year of detection was also extracted.

Reports relating to biosecurity logged in the AAD's electronic incident management system were extracted into pdf format and manually entered into an Excel spreadsheet. Individual columns were used to record information on the report number, location, habitat, year, material type, and taxonomic identification where applicable. Formal identifications and/or verifications of invertebrates were made by entomologists where possible, using associated images and specimens. The data was then de-identified by removing names, precise dates and other sensitive information contained in the reports.

Purpose

The compilation of this dataset is intended to identify emerging risk species or pathways that exhibit high propagule pressure in Antarctica.

Quality

Identifications of material, particularly invertebrates, were primarily limited to distinctive forms observable to the naked eye at the time of reporting. Where possible (e.g. from attached photographs or specimens) formal identifications were made, however for the majority of reports the material could not be identified beyond taxonomic order.

Access

These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Temporal Coverages

• Start date: 2004-01-01 - Stop date: 2023-01-01

Spatial Coverages

Science Keywords

• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > INVASIVE SPECIES
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > HEXAPODS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CHELICERATES
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > GASTROPODS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > MYRIAPODS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > AMPHIBIANS > FROGS/TOADS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > RODENTS
• EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > ORGANIC MATTER

Use 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=AAS_4628_NNID when using these data.