TERN AusPlots Forest Monitoring Network – Large Tree Survey, 2012–2015
The dataset comprises data from the first survey of ~24,000 large trees (>10 cm diameter at breast height; DBH) within 48 1 ha forest monitoring plots established across Australia between 2011 and 2015. Data includes: [1] Site identifiers (ID and Site Name); [2] Plot Establishment Dates; [3] Tree identifiers and descriptors (ID, Species, Status, Growth Stage, Crown Class); [4] Tree measurements (Diameter, Point of Measurement, Height, Location, above-ground biomass); [5] Comments and ancillary information; and [6] List of Metagenomic Sample Identifiers.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-03-23
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-11-11
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-11
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
University of Tasmania - Wood, Samuel ()
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Co-author
University of Tasmania - Stephens, Helen ()
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Co-author
School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania - Bowman, David (Professor)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The AusPlots Forest Monitoring Network aims to establish a continental-scale plot based monitoring network that improves our understanding of tree growth, forest productivity and carbon dynamics in tall eucalypt forests in relation to continental-scale environmental gradients. This permanent plot network provides the infrastructure and data for tracking all aspects of forest dynamics (tree growth, mortality and recruitment) over long periods of time. Between 2012 and 2015, the AusPlots Forest Monitoring Network established 48 large 1 ha plots in mature, highly productive tall eucalypt forests across the Australian continent. Over 20,000 trees in Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia have been tagged, measured and located.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- Funding was provided by Education Investment Fund (EIF). LD Prior (UTAS) assisted in the study design. J Foulkes (UA), B Sparrow (UA) and I Fox (UA) provided administrative support.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania - Bowman, David (Professor)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Churchill Avenue
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Tall eucalypt forests including south-west Western Australia, Central and Southern Victoria, Northern and Southern New South Wales, Tasmania and Far North Queensland
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2012-01-23 2015-02-13
- Title
- Wood, S. W., Prior, L. D., Stephens, H. C., & Bowman, D. M. (2015). Macroecology of Australian Tall Eucalypt Forests: Baseline Data from a Continental-Scale Permanent Plot Network. PloS one, 10(9), e0137811. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.01378
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Wood, S. W., Prior, L. D., Stephens, H. C., & Bowman, D. M. (2015). Macroecology of Australian Tall Eucalypt Forests: Baseline Data from a Continental-Scale Permanent Plot Network. PloS one, 10(9), e0137811. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.01378
Related documentation
- Title
- Wood, S. W., Stephens, H. C., Foulkes, J, Ebsworth, E & Bowman, D. M. (2015). Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network Survey Protocols Manual Version 1.6
- Website
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Wood, S. W., Stephens, H. C., Foulkes, J, Ebsworth, E & Bowman, D. M. (2015). Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network Survey Protocols Manual Version 1.6
Related documentation
- Title
- Wood, W. W., Stephens, H. C. & Bowman, D. M. (2015) Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network Establishment Report
- Website
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Wood, W. W., Stephens, H. C. & Bowman, D. M. (2015) Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network Establishment Report
Related documentation
- Title
- Paul, K. I., Roxburgh, S. H., England, J. R., Ritson, P., Hobbs, T., Brooksbank, K., John Raison, R., Larmour, J. S., Murphy, S., Norris, J., Neumann, C., Lewis, T., Jonson, J., Carter, J. L., McArthur, G., Barton, C. and Rose, B. (2013) Development and testing of allometric equations for estimating above-ground biomass of mixed-species environmental plantings. Forest Ecology and Management, 310 . pp. 483-494
- Title
- Bennett, L. T., C. Aponte, K. G. Tolhurst, M. Löw, and T. G. Baker. 2013. Decreases in standing tree-based carbon stocks associated with repeated prescribed fires in a temperate mixed-species eucalypt forest. Forest Ecology and Management 306:243-255.
- Website
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Bennett, L. T., C. Aponte, K. G. Tolhurst, M. Löw, and T. G. Baker. 2013. Decreases in standing tree-based carbon stocks associated with repeated prescribed fires in a temperate mixed-species eucalypt forest. Forest Ecology and Management 306:243-255.
Related documentation
- Title
- Rosa C. Goodman, Oliver L. Phillips, Dennis del Castillo Torres, Luis Freitas, Sebastián Tapia Cortese, Abel Monteagudo, Timothy R. Baker, Amazon palm biomass and allometry, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 310, 2013, Pages 994-1004
- Website
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Rosa C. Goodman, Oliver L. Phillips, Dennis del Castillo Torres, Luis Freitas, Sebastián Tapia Cortese, Abel Monteagudo, Timothy R. Baker, Amazon palm biomass and allometry, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 310, 2013, Pages 994-1004
Related documentation
- Title
- Christopher D. Philipson et al. (2020), Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests. Science 369, 838-841
- Website
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Christopher D. Philipson et al. (2020), Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests. Science 369, 838-841
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- stem diameter
- Centimetre
- tree condition
- Unitless
- tree mortality
- Unitless
- vegetation growth stage
- Unitless
- crown class
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- bole height
- Centimetre
- stem height
- Metre
- growth form
- Unitless
- above-ground biomass
- Tonne per Hectare
- above-ground live biomass
- Kilogram
- above-ground dead biomass
- Kilogram
- tree mode of death
- Unitless
- tree break height
- Metre
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Tall Open Forests
- Biogeography | Long-Term Community Monitoring | Long-Term Species Monitoring | Macroecology
- Ecosystem Assessment And Management (9605)
- Environmental And Natural Resource Evaluation (9606)
- Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales (960805)
- Acacia melanoxylon | Allocasuarina decussata | Allocasuarina torulosa | Corymbia intermedia | Eucalyptus andrewsii | Eucalyptus coccifera | Eucalyptus cypellocarpa | Eucalyptus dalrympleana | Eucalyptus delegatensis |
- Eucalyptus diversicolor | Eucalyptus fastigata | Eucalyptus grandis | Eucalyptus jacksonii | Eucalyptus microcorys | Eucalyptus obliqua | Eucalyptus ovata | Eucalyptus pilularis | Eucalyptus radiata |
- Eucalyptus regnans | Eucalyptus resinifera | Eucalyptus sieberi | Eucalyptus viminalis | Monotoca glauca | Pomaderris apetala | Syncarpia glomulifera
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- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
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- All rights owned by University of Tasmania.
- Other constraints
- We ask you to send citations of publications arising from work that use these data to TERN at tern@uq.edu.au and citation and copies of publications to david.bowman@utas.edu.au
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- Unclassified
Distribution Information
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- OnLine resource
- Ausplots_large_tree_survey_site_level_biomass_data
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- Ausplots_large_tree_survey_data_dictionary
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Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- TERN EcoPlots Portal
- OnLine resource
- TERN EcoPlots API
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Data was collected as per the methods described in the Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network Survey Protocols Manual Version 1.6 (see links to associated resources)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- Species identification: Field identification of all trees >10 cm diameter at breast height to genus and species level. Voucher specimens from unknown species (prefix UNN) were collected and submitted to local herbarium. [see Manual]
Process step
- Description
- Tree Description: All trees >10 cm diameter at breast height were described by field observation. The following information was collected for each tree: [1] Tree Condition (i.e. Live or Dead); [2] Tree Status (Multi-stem, Buttressed, Burnt, Hollow, etc.); [3] Growth Stage (Regeneration, Regrowth, Mature, Senescent, etc.); [4] Crown Class (Suppressed, Intermediate, Co-dominant, Dominant, etc.); [5] Mode of Death (Standing, Broken, Anthropogenic, Burnt, Lightning, etc.). [see Manual]
Process step
- Description
- Diameter measurement: For all trees >10 cm diameter at breast height, the diameter was measured (in centimeters) at an ascribed point of measurement with a diameter tape. The standard point of measurement was a height of 1.3 m, except in the case of buttressed or 'problem trees' whereby strict rules governed an alternative point of measurement. [see Manual]
Process step
- Description
- Tree Height measurement: For a subset of trees measured for diameter, the height to the top of the tree was measured (in meters) using trigonometric principles using a Vertex Hypsometer. The hypsometer calculates tree height using (a) horizontal distance to the tree and (b) angle to the top of the tree. Tree heights were collected across the observed diameter range for each plot.[see Manual]
Process step
- Description
- Height of Break: Visually estimated height of broken tree (Tree_Status=B), in meters. [see Manual]
Process step
- Description
- Tree location: For all trees >10 cm diameter at breast height, the distance from the 0,0 corner (in meters) along the X and Y axis was collected using a 100 m measuring tape and a electronic rangefinding device.
Process step
- Description
- Bole Height measurement: For a subset of trees measured for diameter, the height to the top of first substantial branch (i.e. Bole Height) was measured (in meters) using trigonometric principles using a Vertex Hypsometer. The hypsometer calculates Bole Height using (a) horizontal distance to the tree and (b) angle to the first substantial branch on the tree. Bole heights were collected across the observed diameter range for each plot.[see Manual]
Process step
- Description
- Sampling Design: Gradient Designs | Repeated Measures | Self-selected (Landscape Scale) Sampling
Process step
- Description
- Flora Sampling Technique: Quadrat/Plot/Grid
Process step
- Description
- <p><Biomass estimation<p>Above-ground live biomass and above-ground dead biomass (kilograms) was calculated for each stem and aggregated to the site level (tonnes per hectare). For all stems where diameter was measured at 1.3 m (or over) from ground level, above-ground live biomass was calculated using generic tree, generic eucalypt and generic acacia allometric equations in table 4 from <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112713006543">Paul et al 2013</a>. The above ground live biomass of palm species were calculated using the generic palm (family-level) equation in table 3, in <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112713006592#s0010">Goodman et al 2013</a>. For stems where the diameter point of measurement was above 1.3 m, a taper model described in <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aay4490">Philipson et al 2020</a> was applied to estimate an equivalent stem diameter at 1.3 m aboveground. To calculate above-ground dead biomass, a reduction factor of 85% of above-ground live biomass was used, as per <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112713004040?via%3Dihub">Bennett et al 2013</a>.</p>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
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urn:uuid/0e503109-2fb6-4182-969f-2d570abdbabd
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
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- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0e503109-2fb6-4182-969f-2d570abdbabd
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2015-03-23T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-11T22:29:37.240568+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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