Name: Antarctic Biodiversity Database - Flora Observations
Published: 1999-10-07
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,VEGETATION,VEGETATION INDEX,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,VEGETATION,VEGETATION SPECIES,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,PLANTS,ALGAE,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,PLANTS,MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,FUNGI,LICHENS,CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA,GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR,VISUAL OBSERVATIONS,[object Object],Flora,Biodiversity

All scientific data collected by the Australian Antarctic program (AAp) are eventually described in the Catalogue of Australian Antarctic and Subantarctic Metadata (CAASM). CAASM can be used to search through AAp data descriptions, and it also provides links to access publicly available datasets, which can either be immediately downloaded or obtained from the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC).

Citation: Seppelt, R. (1999) Antarctic Biodiversity Database - Flora Observations, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/Flora1, Accessed: 2026-06-24
Title: Antarctic Biodiversity Database - Flora Observations
Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date: 1999-10-07
Revision Date: 2018-05-17
Expected Date of Data Release: 1999-10-07
Data Version: 1
Parent record: None

Datasets and documents

Description

The Antarctic Biodiversity database is a database including collection records of plants collected from the Antarctic, subantarctic islands and other areas around the world. You can search for collections and enter, edit or delete collections. An administration page is available for approving entered, edited or deleted collections and for entering, editing or deleting things such as new flora types, new collectors, etc.

Quality

Data can always be added to this database by members of the scientific community, thus it is envisaged that this database will continue to grow. Data was collected from the herbarium of Rod Seppelt (Australian Antarctic Division) and was collated for implementation into a database by Dave Connell (AAD) and Andrea Seppelt (AAD) from January -March 1998. See individual collection records for details.

Access

The database can be accessed at the provided URL.

Temporal Coverages

Start date: 1919-03-13 - Stop date: 1998-11-17

Spatial Coverages

Latitude

Northernmost:
Southernmost:

Longitude

Westernmost:
Easternmost:

Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION INDEX
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > FUNGI > LICHENS

Additional Keywords

Flora
Biodiversity

Locations

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Platforms

FIELD SURVEYS

Instruments

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Researchers

seppelt, rodney (TECHNICAL CONTACT,INVESTIGATOR)
connell, dave (DIF AUTHOR)

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=Flora1 when using these data.

Project

Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (Long Name)
EBA (Short Name)

ISO Topic

BIOTA

Dataset Language

ENGLISH

Orignating Centre

Australian Antarctic Division

Dataset Progress

COMPLETE

IDN Node

AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD

Metadata Revision History

2008-03-03 - Dave Watts - added EBA project. 2012-02-17 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2018-05-17 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata details

Flora1