Friends of Great Victoria Desert (GVD) Area Ecological Monitoring Program Survey

Friends of Unnamed Conservation Park (West region South Australia) Ecological Monitoring Program. Broadly, the aim of the monitoring is to initially provide some baseline data on the presence / absence of introduced and native fauna, and on the composition, structure and condition of vegetation at monitoring sites. This will provide a good basis for recording long term ecological trends, which in turn will provide information on the process driving ecological patterns and changes within the park. I understand that Biological Survey have established / are establishing survey sites across the park. The long-term monitoring program will complement this and improtantly provide long-term data for the region (sites will be monitored at least once per year). It is likely sites will primarily be established along the Anne Beadell Highway west of Volkes Hill Corner. It is envisioned the following will be conducted:
- Site Description / Photopoint establishment (as per BSM standard)
- 2ha Animal Track survey (as per method developed by Michelle Watson and Rick Southgate and previously employed by Friends of Simpson Desert_
- Bird survey (as per BSM standard, over 2ha area)
- Vegetation quadrat data (as per BSm standard)
- Vegetation monitoring (Jessup transects and Ground cover assessment)
- Marsupial Mole Trench Surveys
First Survey conducted in July 2006. DEWNR has trip data for 2008/2011/2012/2013.
 The Friends of Great Victoria Desert (GVD) Area Ecological Monitoring Program 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.

Tags: Acacia aneura var. (NC), Acacia aneura var. intermedia Pedley, Acacia aneura var. microcarpa Pedley, Acacia ayersiana Maconochie, Acacia colletioides Benth., Acacia gilesiana F.Muell., Acacia ligulata A.Cunn. ex Benth., Acacia oswaldii F.Muell., Acacia ramulosa var. linophylla (W.Fitzg.) Pedley, Acacia tetragonophylla F.Muell., Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens S.T.Reynolds, Amphipogon caricinus F.Muell. var. caricinus, Amyema maidenii (Blakely) Barlow subsp. maidenii, Amyema preissii (Miq.) Tiegh., Aristida contorta F.Muell., Aristida holathera Domin var. holathera, Brunonia australis Sm., Calandrinia sp., Calotis erinacea Steetz, Calotis hispidula (F.Muell.) F.Muell., Chenopodiaceae sp., Chenopodium curvispicatum Paul G.Wilson, Chrysocephalum eremaeum (Haegi) Anderb., Dicrastylis beveridgei var. (NC), Disturbance, Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (DC.) J.G.West, Duboisia hopwoodii (F.Muell.) F.Muell., Enchylaena tomentosa var. glabra, Enneapogon avenaceus (Lindl.) C.E.Hubb., Enneapogon polyphyllus (Domin) N.T.Burb., Eremophila gilesii F.Muell. subsp. gilesii, Eremophila glabra (R.Br.) Ostenf. subsp. glabra, Eremophila latrobei subsp. glabra (L.S.Sm.) Chinnock, Eremophila longifolia (R.Br.) F.Muell., Eriachne helmsii (Domin) W.Hartley, Eucalyptus canescens D.Nicolle subsp. canescens, Eucalyptus concinna Maiden & Blakely, Eucalyptus gongylocarpa Blakely, Fauna, Flora, Gramineae sp., Grevillea nematophylla F.Muell. subsp. nematophylla, Grevillea pterosperma F.Muell., Gyrostemon ramulosus Desf., Hibiscus solanifolius F.Muell., Landscape, Lawrencella davenportii (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson, Lepidium phlebopetalum (F.Muell.) F.Muell., Lithology, Lysiana exocarpi (Behr) Tiegh. subsp. exocarpi, Maireana triptera (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson, Podolepis canescens A.Cunn. ex DC., Prostanthera sericea (J.M.Black) B.J.Conn, Ptilotus polystachyus (Gaudich.) F.Muell., Rhagodia sp., Salsola australis L., Santalum acuminatum (R.Br.) A.DC., Sclerolaena deserticola Paul G.Wilson, Sclerolaena johnsonii (Ising) A.J.Scott, Senecio gregorii F.Muell., Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris Randell, Senna cardiosperma subsp. gawlerensis Randell, Sida ammophila F.Muell. ex J.H.Willis, Sida sp., Soil, Solanum coactiliferum J.M.Black, Species Presence/Abundance, Thryptomene biseriata J.W.Green, Trachymene glaucifolia (F.Muell.) Benth., Trichodesma zeylanicum (Burm.f.) R.Br. var. zeylanicum, Triodia lanata J.M.Black, Vegetation Structure, Zygophyllum eremaeum (Diels) Ostenf.
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery