Biological, ecological, conservation and legal information for all species and subspecies of Australian bird

• Main Authors: ST Garnett, DE Duursma, G Ehmke, Patrick Guay, A Stewart, JK Szabo, Mike Weston, S Bennett, GM Crowley, D Drynan, G Dutson, K Fitzherbert, DC Franklin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Conservation biology; Taxonomy; Zoology; School of Life and Environmental Sciences; Centre for Integrative Ecology; Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment; 050211 Wildlife and Habitat Management; 960801 Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Flora; 960802 Coastal and Estuarine Flora; 960804 Farmland; 960805 Flora; 960806 Forest and Woodlands Flora; 960807 Fresh; 960808 Marine Flora; 960810 Mountain and High Country Flora; 960811 Sparseland; 960812 Urban and Industrial Flora; MD Multidisciplinary; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30080318; https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Biological_ecological_conservation_and_legal_information_for_all_species_and_subspecies_of_Australian_bird/20894905

We introduce a dataset of biological, ecological, conservation and legal information for every species and subspecies of Australian bird, 2056 taxa or populations in total. Version 1 contains 230 fields grouped under the following headings: Taxonomy & nomenclature, Phylogeny, Australian population status, Conservation status, Legal status, Distribution, Morphology, Habitat, Food, Behaviour, Breeding, Mobility and Climate metrics. It is envisaged that the dataset will be updated periodically with new data for existing fields and the addition of new fields. The dataset has already had, and will continue to have applications in Australian and international ornithology, especially those that require standard information for a large number of taxa.