Offshore Islands Survey, Biological Survey of South Australia - Vegetation Survey, Biological Database of South Australia

This survey is part of the Biological Survey of SA programme run by the Biological Survey & Monitoring group in DEH. Survey areas defined in a DEH spatial layer managed by DEH Environmental Information Group. The survey sampled, described and mapped the vegetation and recorded the associated fauna from as many as possible of South Australia's offshore islands. All offshore islands from Nuyts Reef in the west to Penguin Island in the South East of South Australia were visited between 1971 and 1982. Several groups of islands are not covered including the islands in Pelican Lagoon on Kangaroo Island, Kangaroo Island itself and the islands in the Coorong Lagoon. Torrens and Garden Islands, the mangroves and saltmarsh covered islands north of Port Adelaide and Entrance Island in Franklin Harbour are excluded, as they are better treated as part of the mangrove complex along the St Vincent Gulf and Spencer Gulf coasts. The Offshore Islands Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity. Please use the following URL to access the dataset: http://aekos.org.au/collection/sa.gov.au/bdbsa_veg/survey_20

本调查为环境与水部（DEH）下属生物调查与监测组执行的《南澳州生物调查计划》的组成部分。调查区域由DEH环境信息组管理的空间图层进行界定。本次调查对南澳州尽可能多的近海岛屿开展了植被采样、描述与制图工作，并记录了伴生的动物类群。1971年至1982年间，调查覆盖了从西部纳茨礁（Nuyts Reef）至南澳州（South Australia）东南部企鹅岛（Penguin Island）的全部近海岛屿。但部分群岛未被纳入调查范围，包括袋鼠岛（Kangaroo Island）上鹈鹕湖（Pelican Lagoon）内的岛屿、袋鼠岛本岛以及库龙潟湖（Coorong Lagoon）内的岛屿。托伦斯岛（Torrens Island）、加登岛（Garden Island）、阿德莱德港（Port Adelaide）北部的红树林与盐沼覆盖岛屿，以及富兰克林港（Franklin Harbour）的入口岛（Entrance Island）均被排除在外，原因是这些区域更适合被归类为圣文森特湾（St Vincent Gulf）与斯宾塞湾（Spencer Gulf）沿岸红树林复合体的组成部分。本次近海岛屿调查是《南澳州生物调查计划》的子项目，该计划自1971年起至今在全州范围内开展一系列系统性调查，其总体目标是建立南澳州动植物生物多样性的基线名录。请通过以下链接获取本数据集：http://aekos.org.au/collection/sa.gov.au/bdbsa_veg/survey_20