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.
A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia
A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia provides a descriptions, distribution map and colour image(s) for all Australian reptiles ...
A Field Guide to Australian Fungi
A Field Guide to Australian Fungi describes 500 fungi species and has 548 colour photographs of fungi in their natural environment ...
A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia
A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia uses photographs of living animals to help people identify many of the spiders they encounter ...
A Guide to the Beetles of Australia
A Guide to the Beetles of Australia emphasises the environmental role of beetles, their relationships with other plants and animals and their importance to humans ...
Atlas of Living Australia
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a collaborative, national project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources ...
AusGrass website
The AusGrass website is a free interactive information system and identification key for 1323 native and naturalised species of grass in Australia ...
Australian Bugs
The Australian Bugs website has links to many resources about Australian bugs: insects, spiders, ants, bees, wasps, beetles, and more ...
Australian Butterflies website
The Australian Butterflies website by Martin Purvis has excellent photographs of 319 Australian butterfly species ...
Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths website
The Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths website has images and links to information on Australian caterpillars, butterflies and moths ...
Australian Freshwater Molluscs website
The Australian Freshwater Molluscs website is a free interactive information and identification site for Australian freshwater molluscs (snails and bivalves) ...
Australian Marine Life
Australian Marine Life describes 1450 of the most commonly seen plants and animals of the temperate marine waters of Australia ...
Australian Moths Online website
The Australian Moths Online website is a database of excellent images of Australian moths from the CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection ...
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 ...
Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries
Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries gives an overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia. These include: Anise Myrtle, Bush Tomato, Desert Raisin, Davidson s Plum, Desert Limes, Australian Finger Lime, Kakadu Plum, Lemon Aspen, Lemon Myrtle, Muntries, Native Pepper, Quandong, Riberry, and Wattle Seed ...
Birds in Backyards website
The Birds in Backyards website is a research, education and conservation program of BirdLife Australia. It focuses on the birds that live where people live and has a great Bird Finder identification tool on its site ...
Birds of Australia
The Birds of Australia app makes identifying Australian birds in the bush so much easier. It's also a great way to learn more about birds ...
Birds of Australia — App review
I love the 'Birds of Australia' app. It makes identifying Australian birds in the bush so much easier. It's also a great way to learn more about birds ...
Birdscaping Australian Gardens
Birdscaping Australian Gardens helps you identify the most common Australian garden birds and choose native plants that will attract these birds to your backyard ...
Corals of the World website
The Corals of the World website by Great Barrier Reef specialist Charlie Vernon, has information, descriptions, distributions on all corals in the world, including all those in Australian waters ...
Eremophila and Allied Genera
Eremophila and Allied Genera presents a treatment of species in the Myoporaceae plant family. It provides detailed plant descriptions, as well as analytical drawings, notes on distribution, ecology, conservation status and relationships ...
EUCLID Eucalypts of Australia website
The EUCLID Eucalypts of Australia website has an online database and interactive identification tool of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora) species in Australia. The database contains information on 934 species and subspecies, and covers all Australian states and territories ...
Find a bird — Birdlife Australia
The 'Find a bird' page on the Birdlife Australia website has pictures and lots of information on bird identification, location and behaviour ...
Flora of Australia online
The Flora of Australia online, based on the published Flora of Australia, lists the names, characteristics, distribution and habitat of Australian plants ...
FrogID project and identification app
The FrogID app is a way to both participate in the Australian Museum's FrogID project and to identify the frogs you may find in Australia. It is free ...
Fungi in Australia
The Fungi in Australia ebooks (PDF) include 380 species of fungi, with 2000 excellent images. They help naturalists identify fungi from native Australian forests ...
How to create a wildlife-friendly garden
If you want to help native animals survive and thrive, convert to a wildlife-friendly garden with local plants. With these 10 easy changes, you can convince local wildlife to stay in your garden ...
How to grow grass trees from seed
In this article, I show you how easy it is to grow grass trees from seed, how to identify grass tree species, and where to see them in nature in Australia ...
How to grow wattle trees from seed
It's easy to grow wattle trees from seed. Wattles are great garden plants and most put on a spectacular display when they flower. As there are so many species of wattles in Australia, it is not hard to find a suitable one for your garden, no matter where you are in Australia ...
Insects of South-eastern Australia
Insects of South-eastern Australia is a unique field guide that uses host plants and behavioural attributes as the starting point for identifying insects ...
Name That Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants
Name That Flower is a comprehensive guide to identifying flowering plants and focuses on plant families that occur in Australia ...
The Caterpillar Key website
The Caterpillar Key is a scientific identification key for Australian caterpillar families. It focuses on families of biosecurity concern to N Australia ...
The cicadas of Australia website
The cicadas of Australia website is an amazing resource on Australian cicadas. It provides cicada images, scientific and common names ...
The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia
The second edition of the award-winning book The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia is a fully updated guide to all butterfly species on Australia’s mainland and remote islands ...
The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia
The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia (2nd ed) describes 333 species of dragonflies and damselflies that occur in Australia ...
WATTLE Acacias of Australia 3
WATTLE Acacias of Australia 2.2 is an online database to identify wattles (Acacia) species in Australia. It contains all known species that have been described to date (2018). This is a great tool, but requires botanical knowledge and knowledge of the database, Lucid key, functionality. It is available free online ...
Weeds Australia website
The Weeds Australia website has information about 398 weed species in Australia; why weeds are a problem; how to identify and record them; and how to manage them ...