Sandy Desert Survey

The Sandy desert survey is part of the Biological Survey of SA programme run by the Biological Survey & Monitoring group in DEH. Generally standard methodology used. Survey areas defined in a DEH spatial layer managed by DEH Environmental Information Group.

A modified standard Biological Survey methodology, Vegetation Mapping methodology, was used during this project at sites identified by the label prefix 'VMS'. At Vegetation Mapping Sites the dominant overstorey and understorey plant species and perennial plant species with a Braun-Blanquet cover abundance score greater than 1 were recorded. Plant height data were not recorded. Either a subset of the complete physical dataset (such as slope, aspect and landform) or no physical data were recorded. The Sandy Desert 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.

本沙地调查（Sandy Desert Survey）系DEH下属生物调查与监测组（Biological Survey & Monitoring group）执行的南澳生物调查计划（Biological Survey of SA）的组成部分。本次调查整体遵循标准调查方法。调查区域由DEH环境信息组（DEH Environmental Information Group）管理的DEH空间图层划定。

本项目中，针对标签前缀为“VMS”的调查样地，采用了经改良的标准生物调查方法——植被制图方法（Vegetation Mapping methodology）。在植被制图样地中，调查人员记录了优势上层植被（overstorey）、下层植被（understorey）物种，以及布朗-布朗克盖度多度评分（Braun-Blanquet cover abundance score）大于1的多年生植物物种。未采集植物高度数据。本次调查仅采集完整物理环境数据集的部分字段（如坡度、坡向与地貌），或未采集任何物理环境数据。本沙地调查是南澳生物调查计划（Biological Survey of South Australia Program）的组成部分，该计划自1971年起在全州范围内开展系统性调查，至今仍在持续，其总体目标为建立南澳州动植物生物多样性的基础名录。