Mount Bold Reservoir Reserve Biological Survey Survey

The survey was undertaken to gain an understanding of the diversity of flora and fauna within Mount Bold Reservoir. To survey a variety of habitat types within the reserve and to survey sites within habitat types that represent the best quality and least disturbed areas within each habitat type. Survey was conducted October-November 2005.

Sites were selcted by considering past vegetation mapping to locate/identify diversity. Complete lists of plant species were obtained quadrat using Braun/ Blanquet cover abundance scores. 1 trapline was setup per site, as well as some bird watching. The Mount Bold Reservoir Reserve Biological Survey 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.