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Cumberland Plain Stem Diameter, Height and Aboveground Woody Biomass Data

This data contains stem diameter, height measurement and above ground living biomass calculations for a remnant Eucalyptus woodland from 2014 - present. Diameter and height measurements for stems ≥10cm diameter at breast height were sampled within the core 1 ha plot within the Cumberland Plain site. Mistletoe cover data is also presented.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-01-28
Date (Publication)
2022-04-20
Date (Revision)
2014-07-14
Edition
1.0

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia

Co-author

Western Sydney University - Pendall, Elise ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
This dataset records tree diameter and height data used to calculate above-ground biomass across vegetation types in Australia. This data is important for mapping and monitoring changes in plant growth, carbon storage and terrestrial energy fluxes.
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
This work was funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
Status
On going

Point of contact

Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Bourke Street
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia

Point of contact

Western Sydney University - Pendall, Elise ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Bourke Street
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment

Extent

Description
The Cumberland Plain site is located in remnant Eucalyptus species woodland on the Cumberland Plain, at the University of Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury campus at Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
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Temporal extent

Time period
2014-03-28
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
Website
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

Related documentation

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
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

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
  • BIOMASS
  • BIOMASS DYNAMICS
  • PRIMARY PRODUCTION
  • COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
  • COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
  • VEGETATION
  • FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE
  • PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Forestry Management and Environment
  • Forestry Sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts
  • ECOLOGY
  • Terrestrial Ecology
  • Community Ecology
  • FORESTRY SCIENCES
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Cumberland Plain
  • Cumberland Plain, core1ha
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • Haglof Sweden Vertex III
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • vegetative height
  • Metre
  • diameter at breast height
  • Centimetre
  • above-ground biomass
  • Kilogram
  • mistletoe cover
  • Percent
  • standing dead above-ground biomass
  • Kilogram
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 100 meters - < 250 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • quadrennial
Keywords (Discipline)
  • species composition
  • Cumberland Plain

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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Linkage
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Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
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. 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> Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting. <br> Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097
OnLine resource
Cumberland_Plain_diameter_height_biomass_data_dictionary

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097
OnLine resource
Cumberland_Plain_site_level_biomass

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097
OnLine resource
Cumberland_Plain_diameter_height_biomass_data

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
TERN EcoPlots Portal

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other
Potential diameter and height outliers were assessed by looking at the absolute difference in 1) diameter and 2) height values for each individual stem between two measurement time points. If the diameter or height difference for an individual falls outside the 3rd standard deviation of the mean of that species, then it was flagged as a potential outlier.

Report

Result

Statement
All potential outliers were assessed by researchers who collected the data. Any value that was considered to be an outlier was removed from the final dataset.

Resource lineage

Statement
Tree survey:<br> Using the 100 m tape measure and the Gentry Transects as guidance, the core 1 hectare was subdivided in circa 12 m wide strips running East-West. Doing one strip at a time (starting in SE corner of the plot), all trees (> 10 cm DBH) within the core 1 hectare were fitted with a numbered aluminium tag. The tag was attached to the Eastern side of the trunk using stainless steel wire inserted into the bark with a custom made tool (i.e. small screwdriver with small notch). Trees with multiple stems were given multiple tags if forking below breast height. The species were identified by Dr. Tony Haigh. <br> The diameter at breast height (DBH) of all tagged stems within the core 1 hectare were measured using a DBH tape. The maximum height of all trees within the core 1 hectare was measured using a Haglof Vertex Laser. The maximum height refers to the top 0.5 m of the tree because the Vertex must be aimed at sufficiently dense foliage and branches in order to make a measurement.<br> Biomass calculations:<br> Aboveground biomass of trees was estimated from DBH using allometric equations from 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. & Rose, B. (2013) Development and testing of allometric equations for estimating above-ground biomass of mixed-species environmental plantings. Forest Ecology and Management, 310, 483-494. Biomass of dead stems was calculated using a reduction factor of 85% of alive biomass (Bennett et al., 2013) Note: both alive and dead stems are included in the site level calculation of above ground woody biomass.<br> Mistletoe survey:<br> The extent of mistletoe infestation was estimated for all eucalyptus trees present in the core 1-ha plot.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/35bdcb46-17f6-455d-9a98-b540b98e9aea

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/35bdcb46-17f6-455d-9a98-b540b98e9aea

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-01-28T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2023-02-06T00:00:00

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

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Community Ecology ECOLOGY FORESTRY SCIENCES Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts Forestry Management and Environment Forestry Sciences not elsewhere classified Terrestrial Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
BIOMASS BIOMASS DYNAMICS COMMUNITY DYNAMICS COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE PLANT CHARACTERISTICS PRIMARY PRODUCTION VEGETATION

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