Collections incorporated

• Tasmanian Department Sea Fisheries Collection and Larval Fish Archive
• Lichen collections of Professor J.A. Elix
• Southern NSW Forest Agreement survey collections
• Eucalyptus collection of Professors Carr and Carr
• Private bird egg collections focused on avifauna of Tasmania, Victoria, and Queensland
• Important private insect collections including the J. Armstrong (dermestid beetles), the K. & E. Carnaby (geotrupid and jewel beetles), and G. Theischinger (dragonflies, craneflies and other aquatic insects) collection.
• The T. Gush collection of beetles transferred from the Macleay Museum.
• Collection of New Guinean rodent and dasyurid specimens from Dr Pat Woolley.
• Collection of Australian and foreign turtle skeletons from Associate Professor Arthur Georges. 

Checklist and catalogues

• Multiple contributions to FAO multi-volume catalogue of the living marine resources of the western central Pacific.
• List of Australian Vertebrates, list of land vertebrates with gazetted conservation status.
• List of available names of Australian bird taxa, a complete list of valid names, with author and date, of all genera, species, and subspecies of Australian birds.
• Zoological Catalogue of Australia: Hymenoptera: Formicoidea, Vespoidea and Spheoidea; Apoidea; Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Phasmatodea; Coleoptera, Elateroidea, Aves (Columbidae, pigeons to Coraciidae rollers), comprehensive catalogues of the Australian fauna published by the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS).
• Mites of Australia: A Checklist and bibliography, a complete checklist for the Australian fauna.
• Oribatid Mites: A Catalogue of Australian Genera and Species, a complete and partly illustrated inventory of the Australian fauna.
• Australian Plant Names Index (electronic database and internet access).
• Census of Australian Vascular Plants.
• Census of Plants in Australian Botanic Gardens.
• International Plant Names Index.

Flora and fauna treatments

• Investigation of biogeographic structure of the Australian fish fauna for use in developing a bioregional framework for conservation management known as the ‘Interim Marine Coastal Regionalisation of Australia’ (IMCRA)
• Flora of Australia: various families and genera, incl. Loranthaceae, Sapindaceae, Gentianaceae, Brassicaceae, Poaceae, Phylidraceae, ferns, Oceanic Islands, published by ABRS.
• Flora of Victoria: Eucalyptus, Caryophyllaceae, Pterostylis, Grevillea.
• Flora of New South Wales: various orchid genera.
• Flora Malesiana: Viscaceae, Loranthaceae.

Taxonomic monographs and revisions

• Sharks and Rays of Australia, a Whitley award winning guide to the 300 shark and ray species found in Australian seas.
• Oecophorine Genera of Australia 1–3, complete overview of Australia’s over 250 genera of mallee moths.
• Australian Tettigoniidae 1–3, CD audio, the first part of a monograph of Australia’s 1,000 species of katydids.
• Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae, well illustrated, complete overview of all genera.
• Australian Weevils 1–3, 7, 8, a well illustrated summary of the Australian weevil fauna.
• Australian Heliothine Moths, well illustrated user-friendly review of the bollworm moth and relatives.
• Tineid genera of Australia, generic level overview of Australia’s diverse tineid fauna.
• Taxonomic revisions published in scholarly international journals: plant families such as Poaceae, Amaranthaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Rutaceae, Hookeriaceae, and Orchidaceae and insect groups such as Formicidae, Chironomidae, Pyralidae, Tortricidae and several families of Coleoptera, Acarina and Nematodes. 

Handbooks

• Australian Seafood Handbook: An Indentification Guide to Domestic Species, enabling their identification using whole animals, fillets and protein fingerprints.
• Australian Seafood Handbook: An Indentification Guide to Imported Species, enabling their identification using whole animals, fillets and protein fingerprints.
• The Directory of Australian Birds (Passerines), diagnosing all regional forms of Australian songbirds and mapping their distribution.
• Identification guide to the Chironomidae of New South Wales, allows identification of aquatic Chironomidae to species level.
• Moths of Australia, comprehensive and well illustrated introduction to the Australian moth fauna.
• Australian Beetles, contains keys, illustrations and accounts of Australia’s 117 families of beetles.
• Grasshopper Country, a complete coverage of Australian orthopteroids.
• Insects of Australia, a world acclaimed entomology textbook.
• Australian Ants. Their Biology and Identification.
• The Australian Dragonflies: A guide to the Identification, Distribution and Habitats of Australian Odonata.
• Butterflies of Australia. Their identification, biology and distribution.
• CSIRO Handbook of Australian Weeds.
• CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names. Common and scientific names for insects and allied organisms of economic and environmental importance.
• ROTAP – Rare or Threatened Australian Plants, national listing of threatened species.
• Plant Systematics Research in Australasia, directory of systematics research on the Australian flora.
• Resources of Australian Herbaria, directory to staff and expertise in Australian herbaria.
• Australian Trees and Shrubs - 165 species for land rehabilitation and farm planting in the tropics
• Essential oils of tropical Astromyrtus, Callistemon and melaleucas - in search of interesting oils with commercial potential.

Database development and applications

• A system for documenting a reliability level history of collection identifications.
• BioLink, a biodiversity information management system.
• Comprehensive specimen-based datasets of dung beetles of NE Australia, all Australian termites, heliothinae moths, Eucalyptus, Casuarina, grasses, Acacia, Chenopodiaceae, Legumes, etc.
• APNI – Australian Plant Name Index, relational database and internet gateway.
• Integrated access to and visualization of distributed biological collections data.
• ANHSIR – Australian National Herbarium Specimen Information Register, relational database and internet gateway.
• Continent-wide Eucalyptus point-source dataset.
• Contribution to Australia's Virtual Herbarium.
• Contribution to the Global Butterfly Information System (GloBIS).
• A national database of seed banks and their holdings.

Surveys

• Deepsea marine biota in remote areas of Australia’s 200 nautical miles offshore Exclusive Economic Zone.
• Insects and related invertebrates in the Bookmark Biosphere Reserve and Cape York Peninsula.
• Cryptogam flora of Vanuatu and Norfolk Island.
• Avifauna of eastern Queensland and western Cape York Peninsula.
• Land bird fauna of the Pilbara. 

Educational products and activites

• Biological information and research results on the World Wide Web.
• Insects. Little creatures in a big World. Multimedia CD-ROM.
• ANWC Travelling Wildlife Display, a touring specimen-based exhibit detailing the role of the ANWC and other natural history collections in scientific research, education, and conservation. 

Training

• Basic ichthyological training to Australia’s foreign fishing observer team.
• Technical Training Course in entomology and botany.
• Biology and Identification of thrips, whitefly, beetles, Collembola, nematodes and cryptogams.
• Summer studentships.
• Summer botanical internship program.
• Technical Training for international projects such as GEF Biodiversity Collection Project in Indonesia and rapid biodiversity assessment in Papua New Guinea.
• Training and staff exchanges with related institutions such as the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Booderee National Park.

Interactive identification products

• Interactive identification and information retrieval software
• Planning of an interactive identification guide to Australian fishes capable of being queried by geographic area using the ‘Photographic Index of Australian Fishes’ (PIAF).
• Beetle Larvae of the World. First interactive CD-ROM when first published in 1993.
• An Interactive Glossary to Oribatid Mites. An Interactive Key to Oribatid Mites of Australia.
• Beetles of the World, a large interactive database that allows identification to family groups of all beetles.
• EUCLID - Eucalypts of Southern Australia
• Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants - Trees, Shrubs and Vines
• An interactive key to Australian Flowering Plant Families of Australia

last updated: April 2003