Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay Soil Characteristic Data 2011 - 2014
This data contains soil physico-chemical characteristics collected at the Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay site between 2011 - 2014.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-06-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-03-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-15
- Edition
- 1.1
Identifier
Publisher
Author
James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- 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.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- The Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay site is located about 120 km north of Cairns, Queensland. Vegetation within the site is classified as Complex Mesophyll Vine Forest (CMVF).
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-06-01 2014-06-28
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- soil depth
- Metre
- soil horizon
- Unitless
- soil bulk density
- Gram per Cubic Centimetre
- soil volumetric water content
- Cubic Centimetre per Cubic Centimetre
- soil potassium
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil electrical conductivity
- Decisiemens per Metre
- soil pH
- Unitless
- soil copper content
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil iron content
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil manganese content
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil zinc content
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil total nitrogen content
- Percent
- soil carbon content
- Percent
- soil temperature
- Degree Celsius
- soil phosphorus content
- Milligram per Kilogram
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Soil physico-chemical
- Soil pit
- Daintree Discovery Centre
- DDC
- FNQ Rainforest
- Far North Queensland
- Cow Bay
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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- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Supplemental Information
- Data files were updated to v1.1 to correct the coordinates.
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cow_Bay_soil_characteristics_data_1.1
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- (Superseded) Cow_Bay_soil_pit_data
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- (Superseded) Cow_Bay_soil_characteristics_data
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The collection of physico-chemical characteristics of soil from the Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay site was conducted between 2011 and 2014. The soil pit was 1.5 m deep, 0.6 m wide and 1.2 m long, at 1.5 m depth a big rock was discovered which occupied half of the pit. A smaller, deep pit was dug inside the main pit avoiding the rock and going down to 2.0 m (0.4 x 0.4 m2 area ). Sensors were distributed in three vertical columns of sensors (seen from above in a triangular pattern), where two columns have 4 SWS_616 and 4 MWP_229 and one column has just 4 SWS_616 - the TCAV probe is sitting in the middle of that triangle - sensors were read every 30min and data is stored in logger. 3 types of soil monitoring probes were installed, 8x CS229 probes to measure water tension, 9x CS616 TDR probes to measure volumetric water content, 1x TCAV probe to measure average soil temperature. the probes were deployed in the loamy area of the pit (SW corner, S corner and SE wall). 4 depths were reached: -100 mm, -750 mm, -1500 mm and -2000 mm. Per depth 3x TDR and 2x CS229 were deployed in a triangular pattern; vertically in columns 1m apart and numbered as I (SW corner), II (S corner) and III (SE wall, TDR only); the TCAV probe was deployed at -750mm between the columns. The TDR probes were pushed horizontally into the loamy soil (TDR III@-750mm had to be pushed into a mix of loam/coarse sand). The CS229 probes were laid down horizontally in close proximity (5-10cm) to the TDR probes in column I and II and buried in fine loam scraped from the walls at the spots; the probes weren't saturated with water before deployment. The TCAV probes were pushed into the soil horizontally (pairs 5cm vertically apart) in the SE wall and SW wall, half way between the columns I/II and II/III. Soil samples for the chemical analysis were extracted from the soil pit and analysed in a soil laboratory.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/4bcc6f9b-7386-4061-b345-1ea9390cda74
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- 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/4bcc6f9b-7386-4061-b345-1ea9390cda74
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-29T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-15T04:50:45.790444+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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