TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Robson Creek Rainforest Coarse Woody Debris Data
This data contains diameter, volume and biomass measurements of all coarse woody debris pieces within the core 1 ha plot at the Robson Creek Rainforest site in 2012 - 2014 and 2017.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-06-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-12-15
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1
Publisher
Author
CSIRO Land and Water - Bradford, Matt (Senior Experimental Scientist)
47 - 67 Maunds Road, Atherton, QLD, 4883, Australia
Atherton
QLD
4883
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Land and Water - Ford, Andrew (Research Technician)
47 - 67 Maunds Road, Atherton, QLD, 4883, Australia
Atherton
QLD
4883
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Coarse woody debris (CWD) is a fundamental component of forested ecosystems, providing habitat for organisms and play an important role in nutrient cycling and carbon storage.
- 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
- On going
Point of contact
CSIRO Land and Water - Bradford, Matt (Senior Experimental Scientist)
47 - 67 Maunds Road, Atherton, QLD, 4883, Australia
47 - 67 Maunds Road
Atherton
QLD
4883
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- The Robson Creek 25-ha rainforest site is located in the Danbulla National Park within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2012-06-01
- Title
- Baker, T. R. and Chao, K. J. (2011). Manual for coarse woody debris measurement in RAINFOR plots. University of Leeds, UK.
- Website
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Baker, T. R. and Chao, K. J. (2011). Manual for coarse woody debris measurement in RAINFOR plots. University of Leeds, UK.
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- coarse woody debris type
- Unitless
- dead wood position
- Unitless
- thick end coarse woody debris horizontal axis diameter
- Centimetre
- thin end coarse woody debris horizontal axis diameter
- Centimetre
- coarse woody debris length
- Metre
- coarse woody debris void space
- Percent
- coarse woody debris decay class
- Unitless
- coarse woody debris wood density
- Gram Per Cubic Centimetre
- coarse woody debris volume
- Cubic Metre
- coarse woody debris biomass
- Tonne
- total stand coarse woody debris volume
- Cubic Meter per Hectare
- stand standing dead tree volume
- Cubic Meter per Hectare
- stand non-standing coarse woody debris volume
- Cubic Meter per Hectare
- total stand coarse woody debris biomass
- tonne per hectare
- stand standing dead tree biomass
- tonne per hectare
- stand non-standing coarse woody debris biomass
- tonne per hectare
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Coarse Woody Debris
- CWD
- Biomass
- Far North Queensland
- Robson Creek
- Rainforest
- FNQR
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
- File type
- 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
- 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}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Robson_Creek_Rainforest_site_level_CWD_data
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Robson_Creek_Rainforest_CWD_data
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Robson_Creek_Rainforest_CWD_data_dictionary
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
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Coarse woody debris sampling:<br> Coarse woody debris (CWD) was sampled at the Robson Creek Rainforest core 1 ha site in 2012 - 2014 and 2017. The core 1 hectare was subdivided in 25 (20 m x 20 m) subplots. Within each subplot, the diameter at the base (thickest part), the top (thinnest part) and the length of all CWD pieces and standing dead trees (> 10 cm diameter) were measured. Void space, decay class classification and wood density based on Baker and Chao (2011) were recorded for each CWD and standing dead tree. <br> Calculation of coarse woody debris volume, mass and biomass<br> The volume and biomass of CWD and standing dead trees were calculated using the formulas outlined in Baker and Chao (2011). The volume of the CWD segment was computed using the Smalian's formula: V = H x (S + s) / 2, where S and s are the diameters at the base and top of the segment, respectively and H is the length of the CWD piece. Biomass was calculated by the volume x wood density x the proportion of solid wood (S = 1 – proportion void space).
- 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/66fb4753-b333-4139-9edb-4fd85d5ba6e7
- 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/66fb4753-b333-4139-9edb-4fd85d5ba6e7
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-08-17T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2022-12-15T00:00:00
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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