Queensland (QLD)
The following resources on biodiversity are relevant for QLD.
All resources are sorted by title.
A Guide to Plants of Inland Australia
Covers the major plants of three-quarters of the continent of Australia. This book features 800 species that are well-known, and can be easily seen throughout inland Australia ...
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants website
Rainforest Plants of Australia is an interactive identification key and information software package. It includes species descriptions and feature information to identify over 1100 species of rainforest trees, shrubs and climbing plants of mainland eastern Australia. These species may occur in a variety of rainforests from Rockhampton, in Queensland, to Victoria ...
Brisbane Insects and Spiders website
The Brisbane Insects and Spiders website provides descriptions, classification information and colour image(s) for many insects in that area ...
Coastal Life of South East Queensland app
Coastal Life of SE Queensland is a free app to help you identify species on the rocky shores, muddy sandflats and mangroves of SE Qld. It describes over 540 species ...
Field Guide to Queensland Fauna app
The Field Guide to Queensland Fauna app describes and illustrates over 560 mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, frogs and invertebrates in Queensland. It is free ...
GroNATIVE app
GroNATIVE is a free app that helps home gardeners and designers select local native plants suitable for the garden in South East Queensland ...
Huge mangrove dieback
A James Cook University (JCU) scientist says an ‘unprecedented’ dieback event has now been confirmed to have occurred, with surveys showing thousands of hectares of mangroves on the Gulf of Carpentaria suffering a severe dieback ...
North Queensland Plants website
The North Queensland Plants website is a private site with images of about 2000 Australian plants. It has a focus on plants of North Queensland and all photos are taken in the wild and identified ...
Pasture Plants of North-west Queensland
Pasture Plants of North-west Queensland is one of a two-book set on the flora of north-west Queensland. It is supported by hundreds of photographs for easy identification in the field ...
Plants of Central Queensland
Plants of Central Queensland describes and illustrates 525 plants of central Queensland so that they can be readily identified in the field ...
Rainforest Climbing Plants
Rainforest Climbing Plants is a plant identification book for the botanically minded naturalist to identify rainforest climbing plants in Victoria, NSW and subtropical Queensland ...
Rainforest Plants of Australia
Rainforest Plants of Australia is an interactive identification key and information software package. It includes species descriptions and feature information to identify over 1100 species of rainforest trees, shrubs and climbing plants of mainland eastern Australia. These species may occur in a variety of rainforests from Rockhampton, in Queensland, to Victoria ...
Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-eastern Australia
Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-Eastern Australia is a guide to the recovery and restoration of subtropical, warm temperate, cool temperate, gallery, dry, dry gully and littoral rainforests from south-eastern Queensland to Tasmania ...
Rainforest Trees and Shrubs
An identification guide to rainforest trees and shrubs from Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative features ...
Trees and Shrubs of North-west Queensland
Trees and Shrubs of North-west Queensland is one of a two-book set on the flora of north-west Queensland. The plant descriptions are supported by many photographs for easy identification in the field ...
Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane
Brisbane and the surrounding region is one of the greenest urban environments in the world. About 2800 species of wild plants survive and mostly flourish in this region. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane is a field guide to more than 500 species of Brisbane's most familiar wild plants. It describes and illustrates these species, and contains more than 1100 excellent colour photographs ...
You can also use the following Australia-wide resources.
Atlas of Living Australia
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a collaborative, national project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources ...
Australian Native Plants — Cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation
This sixth edition of Australian Native Plants describes more than 1500 Australian native plants for the garden and is suitable for gardeners around Australia ...