Study site: Australia. Authors: Alex Bush, Günther Theischinger, Vincent Kalkman & Dennis R. Paulson.

Contact details:

Alex Bush. E-mail: alex.bush@lancaster.ac.uk. ORCID: https:/orcid.org/0000-0002-0679-6666. Affiliation: Lancaster University.

Günther Theischinger. E-mail: theischingergunther@gmail.com. ORCID: https:/orcid.org/0000-0002-5207-2626. Affiliation: Australian Museum -Research Associate.

Vincent Kalkman. E-mail: vincent.kalkman@naturalis.nl. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1484-786. Affiliation: Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

Dennis R. Paulson. E-mail: dennispaulson@comcast.net.  Affiliation: Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound (now retired).

Data contributors:

The metadata file 'table1.pdf' includes all the data sources in detail.

Coordinates of the bounding box (ulx, uly, lrx, lry): 113.6575, -9.3811, 153.626, -43.5011

Centroid coordinates (x,y): 143.766061,-28.107764

Number of records: 31521

The dataset includes records in areas: 

Not protected on the observation date (0)

Protected on the observation date (1)

Protected on a date following the observation date (2)

using the November 2022 version of the Protected Planet WDPA WD-OECM dataset 

    (Protected Planet: World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) 

    and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM), UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, 2022). 

    Please see publication for further information.

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW, Abell et al., 2008) covered: 0,801-810,815

Taxonomic focus of the study: Odonata

Survey methods: Hand net