Data Availability

If research is conducted in any of South Australia's reserves, a prerequisite of the Department for Environment and Water (DEW) Scientific Permit is a minimum dataset which contributes to the Biological Database of SA (BDBSA). This is the most direct way to ensure that records become part of corporate data in the South Australian government, which is used for development assessment decisions, EBPC referral decisions, any species distribution and trend modelling and other purposes. There is a specific format for ‘minimum required data’ that aligns with the database and makes it simple to incorporate. 

Researchers are also encouraged to deposit and publish their research data in TERN’s SHARED data submission tool to receive a data citation. These data (including derived data) can then be used many years later in meta-analyses.