biodiversityatlas.at

The Biodiversity Atlas Austria is a free online portal for searching, visualising and analysing species occurrence records in Austria. It is based on the Atlas of Living Australia, and it offers location-based species search, regional discovery tours, and a spatial portal that overlays occurrence data with environmental and other contextual information.

The portal is open to the public and does not charge for access. Its data comes from natural history museums, universities, research groups, administrative bodies, conservation management and planning institutions and other data partners. Since November 2021 it has cooperated with GBIF-Austria, which makes more than 6 million Austrian occurrence records available to the Atlas, updated annually. The Atlas also runs the Biom Garten citizen-science project, supported by the Austrian Biodiversity Fund, which invites people to report amphibian and reptile sightings in their gardens.

The portal has been online since December 2019. The site lists data partners including AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Biologiezentrum Linz, Haus der Natur Salzburg, several university herbaria, inatura in Dornbirn, Nationalpark Hohe Tauern and Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. The site does not state a headquarters, legal entity or office locations.

Product: Open-access web portal with species occurrence search, regional exploration, a spatial analysis tool and dataset catalogue for Austrian biodiversity data