TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Tree survival, diameter, growth, recruitment and climatic data, Northern Queensland, Australia
This dataset presents the demographic monitoring (growth and survival) of 81 tree species based on repeated stem measurement data from 20, 0.5 ha (100 m x 50 m) permanent moist forest plots in northern Queensland, Australia from 1971 to 2019, as well as four additional plots of 0.1 to 1 ha whose monitoring began in the 2000s. The plots have a rainfall range of 1200 to over 6000 mm, represent eleven vegetation types, six parent materials, and range from 15 m to 1500 m above sea level. Except for minor disturbances associated with selective logging on two plots, the plots were established in old growth forest and all plots have thereafter been protected. Plots were regularly censused and at each census the diameter at breast height (DBH) of all stems ≥10 cm DBH were recorded.
We only report the data for the 81 species studied in Bauman et al. 2022 (Nature), here.
We also provide the climatology of these plots as well as the temperature, vapour pressure deficit, and maximum climatological water deficit of all intervals separating consecutive censuses, as used in the analyses of Bauman et al. 2022.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-01-31
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-02-24
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
University of Oxford - Bauman, David ()
South Parks Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3QY UK
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3QY
UK
Co-author
James Cook University - Cernusak, Lucas ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield Cairns QLD 4878 Australia
Cairns
QLD
4878
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Land and Water - Bradford, Matt ()
47 - 67 Maunds Road Atherton QLD 4883 Australia
Atherton
QLD
4883
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The data collected from the 20 plots provides an insight into the floristics, structure and long term forest dynamics of Australian tropical rainforests and allows direct comparisons to be made with long-term monitoring plots at a global scale.
- 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
- The data related to the 20 0.5-ha plots were established, maintained and censused by CSIRO (see https://doi.org/10.4225/08/59475c67be7a4 for initial link and data). We thank the Australian Supersite Network, part of the Australian Government’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Network for having provided the data for the Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay, and Robson Creek Supersites. David Bauman was supported by the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) and the Philippe Wiener - Maurice Anspach Foundation.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
University of Oxford - Bauman, David ()
South Parks Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3QY UK
South Parks Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3QY
UK
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Biota
Extent
- Description
- The tropical moist forest plots have a rainfall range of 1200 to 3500 mm, represent eleven vegetation types, six parent materials, and range from 15 m to 1200 m above sea level.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1971-01-03 2019-12-09
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 15.0
- Maximum value
- 1590.0
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 3D
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Demography
- Tropical moist forests
- Wet Tropics
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
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- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The data collection is described in Bauman et al. 2022 (the study should be cited in works using the data). Bauman D, Fortunel C, Delhaye G, Malhi Y, Cernusak LA, Bentley LP, Rifai SW, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Oliveras I, Phillips OL, McNellis BE, Bradford M, Laurance SLW, Hutchinson MF, Dempsey R, Santos-Andrade P, Ninantay-Rivera HR, Chambi Paucar JR, McMahon SM (2022) Long-term tropical tree mortality increases associated with rising atmospheric water stress. Nature (accepted).
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- Classification
- Unclassified
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- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- Site and species data: The dataset encompasses 49 years of inventory data from 24 unlogged tropical rainforest plots distributed along an elevation gradient ranging between 15 and 1500 m above sea level in northern Queensland Australia. Twenty plots (0.5-ha, 100 × 50 m) were established between 1971 and 1980 to provide long-term ecological and demographic data, while four plots were established more recently (2001 – 2012) along the same elevation gradient. The elevation gradient covers a wide range of mean annual temperatures (19°C to 26.1°C), precipitation (1213 to 3563 mm), and mean vapour pressure deficit (6.5 to 11.8 hPa). All trees above 10 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) were mapped, identified to species level and measured for diameter at beast height. Tree recruitment and mortality were also recorded. Sampling was conducted every two years for ten years, then at three-to-four-year intervals in the older twenty plots, while the more recent plots were sampled one to three times.
Process step
- Description
- Climatic data: Plot-level mean vapour pressure deficit (VPD), and maximum temperature (Tmax) were collected from ANUClimate v.2.0 between 1971 and 2019 and maximum climatological water deficit (MCWD) was calculated using precipitation data from ANUClimate v.2.0 and evapotranspiration data from TerraClimate. Climatic variable mean values were defined as a 35-year local average per climatic variable (1984-2019).
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/2ec50eab-d5c9-4585-965f-e34f7ab321fa
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2ec50eab-d5c9-4585-965f-e34f7ab321fa
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-01-31T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-02-01T02:28:37
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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