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The Scatterplot - multiple tool allows for the plotting of a taxa or species assemblage occurrence records across all pairs of selected environmental layers...
Tue, 2 Jul, 2019 at 11:25 AM
Generalised Dissimilarity Modelling (GDM) This is one of the most complex tools within the Spatial Portal. Inputs to this tool are usually a species ass...
Fri, 5 Jul, 2019 at 10:18 AM
February 7, 2012 This tool allows you to search for a species available via the Atlas (including at higher taxonomic levels) and map their distribu...
Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 at 11:50 AM
The National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset is accessible in the ALA. This dataset shows all areas of Australia affected by the 2019-2020 bushfir...
Wed, 16 Sep, 2020 at 1:10 PM
We have replaced the concept of an assemblage with Lists. A list, like the assemblage, is any combination of species but we have now formalized the gene...
Thu, 11 Jul, 2019 at 10:38 AM
February 6, 2012 The Export Checklist produces a list of species for a given area together with the number of occurrences recorded in that area. Note ...
Mon, 22 Jul, 2019 at 1:29 PM
In previous versions of the spatial portal you needed to import a list of LSIDs. In version 2.0 and later versions of the spatial portal this has been simpl...
Wed, 7 Aug, 2019 at 9:29 AM
Faceting A facet is an a single attribute of a species that has been indexed against all species records in the ALA’s species database; an indexed attri...
Fri, 31 Jan, 2020 at 3:13 PM
February 3, 2012 The “Restore prior analysis” function restores an analysis generated through the tools – Points to Grid, Classify, Predict and GDM...
Thu, 11 Oct, 2018 at 11:24 AM
February 2, 2012 The nearest locality tool identifies the five closest gazetteer features to a point clicked on the map. Nearest Locality From the me...
Wed, 13 Mar, 2019 at 3:18 PM