South Olary Plains Survey

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 was established to provide a comprehensive database classification and map of the flora and fauna communities in the Northern Murray River Basin of South Australia. It was also established as a long term monitoring system to further understand the general and fire ecology of the basin environment. The South Olary Plains 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.