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Getting started
6
Introduction to the ALA
Data on the ALA
Submit a record
Citing the ALA
Account support
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Introduction to ALA
Species information
10
Why can’t I find a species I know exists?
Why do some pages have little data?
Why are there duplicate species?
Why does a species have the wrong name?
Why are there few expert species distributions in the ALA?
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ALA User Guides
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How to show the distribution of a species on a map of Australia
How to show species distributions and environmental layers on a map
How to see if a particular species is present in your area
How to find species information
How to make a scatter plot
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ALA Data
Data standards, quality & licensing
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The ALA’s Data Quality Project
What are biodiversity data standards?
Spatially valid flag
What data standards does the ALA use?
What data quality checks does the ALA do?
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Sensitive data
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What is sensitive data?
How does the ALA handle sensitive data?
How do I make the location of my sighting non-specific?
Downloading ALA data
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How to download occurrence records
How to download pre-generated downloads
How to download a print-quality species occurrences map
Why aren't shapefile downloads available any more?
Sharing data with the ALA
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Why should I share my data with the ALA?
Who else is sharing data with the ALA?
What information can I share with the ALA?
Have you shared your information with another organisation that may already be sharing the information with the ALA?
Can organisations set up an automated process for data sharing?
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Submitting data to the ALA
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How to submit a data set
What format should my data be in?
Data upload templates
What are the minimum mandatory fields needed by the ALA?
How do I edit my data?
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Accessing data
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ALA's R package: {galah}
Working with Conservation and Sensitive Species Information
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ALA Tools & Apps
ZoaTrack
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What is ZoaTrack?
DigiVol
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What is DigiVol?
MERIT
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What is MERIT?
MERIT User Guide
How do I obtain access to my MERIT projects?
MERIT Schema and API
ALA for developers
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ALA on GitHub
ALA API - how to access ALA web services
Infrastructure overview
ALA platform installation
How to embed a species map in a web page using ALA WMS services
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iNaturalist Australia
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ALA and iNaturalist Australia
How to create an account with iNaturalist
How can I see my iNaturalist records in ALA?
How do I record an observation with iNaturalist?
How is data harvested from iNaturalist and fed into the ALA?
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Phylolink
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What is Phylolink?
ALA Spatial Portal
FAQs
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What can I map?
Why are there no species records for my area?
Note: Area (sq km)
What does the spatially valid flag (geospatial_kosher) mean?
What are environmental and contextual spatial layers?
Case Studies
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Wind, wind-farms, birds and bats
Finding Pinot Noir – an example of how to use the Atlas
Classification case study
Scatterplot case study
Tabulation Case Study
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Analytical Tools
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Area Reports
Nearest location
Compare Points
What is sampling?
What is filtering?
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How to guides
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Compare areas
Scatterplot
Point Comparisons
Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence
Generate points
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ALA BioCollect
What is BioCollect?
6
BioCollect explained
BioCollect and iNaturalist
BioCollect mobile app
BioCollect Hubs
Sharing data with the ALA
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BioCollect projects
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Setting up a project
Managing project members
Blog posts
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BioCollect surveys
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Creating a survey
Selecting a survey form
Configuring species in a survey
Survey location settings
Embargoing data
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Natural Resource Management Projects
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