Great Western Woodlands, Plant Functional Type Classification, Richness and Cover in Eucalyptus salubris Woodlands Across Time Since Fire Chronosequence, 2010-2011
This record contains information on the Plant Functional Type Classification, Richness and Cover in <i>Eucalyptus salubris</i> Woodlands, Great Western Woodland site. The data were generated across time since fire chronosequence, 2010-2011.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-07-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-12-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-15
- Edition
- 1
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Publisher
Author
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Gosper, Carl ()
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Prober, Suzanne Mary (Senior Principal Research Scientist)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Yates, Colin ()
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Plant Functional Types (PFTs) are groupings of plants based on traits relevant to processes of vegetation change, allowing generalized predictions of vegetation responses to similar disturbances elsewhere. Recurrent fire is a dominant disturbance in Mediterranean-climate landscapes, yet there have been no studies of how a PFT classification can enhance understanding of vegetation change due to time since fire in ‘fire-sensitive’ Mediterranean-climate woodlands, where the dominant overstorey trees are typically killed by fire. The Great Western Woodlands (GWW) region of south-western Australia supports the world’s largest remaining area of Mediterranean-climate woodland, which in mosaic with mallee, shrublands and salt lakes cover an area of 160 000 km<sup>2</sup>. Eucalyptus woodlands in this region are typically fire-sensitive, and fire return intervals recorded over recent decades have been much shorter than the long-term average. This has led to considerable conservation concern regarding the loss of mature woodlands, and has highlighted a need to better understand how plant communities change with time since fire.
- 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
- Project was funded by: (1) Australian Supersite Network, part of the Australian Government’s Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network https://portal.tern.org.au/ a research infrastructure facility established under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and Education Infrastructure Fund - Super Science Initiative - through the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education; (2) A biodiversity and cultural conservation strategy for the Great Western Woodlands, Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Gosper, Carl ()
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
147 Underwood Avenue
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
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- Biota
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- Description
- The Great Western Woodlands site was established in 2012 on Credo Station, 110 km NNW of Kalgoorlie, WA.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2010-07-01 2011-12-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Plant Name Index
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Eucalyptus woodlands
- Great Western Woodlands
- Plant Functional Types
- Species Richness
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- 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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- 4.0
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- 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
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- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
- Other constraints
- <br>Please note: This data has been migrated “as is” from TERN’s SuperSite data portal. Minimal quality assessment has been applied to this data. Please contact the dataset authors for queries regarding the data.</br>
- Other constraints
- These data are currently being used for research into the impacts of fires on <i>Eucalyptus salubris</i> woodlands. These data are freely available for use, however, we request that potential users contact the project team to discuss opportunities for collaboration. Note that some of these data are duplicates of data available at the Department of Parks and Wildlife (WA) NatureMap data portal, lodged under the theme “Great Western Woodlands” in “Fire ecology studies in gimlet woodlands”.
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- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
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- OnLine resource
- GreatWesternWoodlands_GimletPFT_datadictionary_2011
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- GreatWesternWoodlands_Gimlet_Vegetation_Plant_FunctonalType_data
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- GreatWesternWoodlands_Gimlet_VegetationRichness_data
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- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
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- OnLine resource
- GreatWesternWoodlands_Gimlet_Vegetation_Cover_data
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Distributor
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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 Plant Functional Type (PFT) classification data, species richness and cover data were gathered from the Great Western Woodlands during 01/07/2010 to 01/12/2011. <br>Plant functional type (PFT) classification: We defined PFTs on the basis of life-form and plant height (seven categories) and seed dispersal potential (long vs. short). Life form and plant height are proxies for competitive dominance during the inter-fire period and longevity. Dispersal potential reflects the capacity for persistence at the landscape level and provides an indication of the likelihood of dispersal between areas of different times since fire and the potential for inter-fire recruitment. Of the 14 potential combinations of these traits, 12 were represented in the sampled flora. Methods for PFT definition and flora sampling are described in more detail in Gosper et al. (2013). Site details and cover of the individual taxa which make up the PFTs are available in an associated data set (Gosper et al. 2012).</br> <br>We measured changes in PFT richness and cover in <i>Eucalyptus salubris</i> woodlands with increasing time since fire at 72, 50 x 50 m plots using a space-for-time approach. To estimate stand ages for this study we used satellite imagery, growth ring counts and relationships between growth ring counts and plant size, resulting in an estimated time since fire range sampled of 3 to 370 years.</br> <br>Gosper CR, Yates CJ, Prober SM (2013) Floristic diversity in fire-sensitive eucalypt woodlands shows a ‘U’-shaped relationship with time since fire. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 1187-1196.</br>
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Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
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- English
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Point of contact
- Title
- Great Western Woodlands Site, Changes in Plant Diversity Indices, Composition and Cover in Eucalyptus salubris Woodlands Across Time Since Fire Chronosequence, 2012
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- https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/
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- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-20T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-15T05:18:36.648414+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
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- 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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