A range of teacher professional learning programs will be developed to accompany the Biodiversity of the Western Volcanic Plains online outreach...
- A comprehensive survey takes extensive time and cost to complete.
- Collecting data about both plants and animals at the site allows more reliable analysis of management actions to be made.
To be comprehensive, biological surveys need to be conducted at a suitable time of day and time of year for observing and identifying grassland species. Comprehensive surveys include mapping the locations where key species are found so that distributions can be mapped over time.
Mapping habitat (e.g. rocky areas, water sources) helps provide information for planning animal reintroductions.
Biological surveys provide the most meaningful and reliable data when repeated over time at permanent quadrats and transect sites so that exactly the same sites are being compared.
