TERN Geospatial Catalogue
TERN Surveillance Monitoring Program
<p> AusPlots is a collection of ecological data and samples gathered from a network of plots and transects across Australia by the TERN Surveillance Monitoring team, using standardised methodologies. </p>
<p>The AusPlots collection provides the ecological infrastructure to: </p>
<ul><li>quantify the richness and cover of plant species (including weeds); </li><li>quantify the diversity and abundance of soil biodiversity; </li><li>assess the state, spatial heterogeneity and structural complexity of vegetation, including life-stage; </li><li>record vegetation and soil parameters that assist with the validation of remotely sensed ecological products;</li><li>analyse vegetation structure and change based on a series of photo reference images; </li><li>better estimate soil carbon and nutrient stocks; </li><li>conduct taxonomic validation studies based on collected plant voucher specimens; </li><li>conduct DNA barcoding and population genetic profiling based on collected tissue samples. </li></ul>
<p>
Overall this information will progress understanding of ecosystem processes, structure and function, and more generally progress understanding of the response to disturbance and longer-term environmental change of rangeland ecosystems, which underpins sustainable management practice.</p>.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-01-29
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-12-15
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Tokmakoff, Andrew ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Sparrow, Ben ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Leitch, Emrys ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Guerin, Greg ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - O'Neill, Sally ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Macdonald, Christina ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Lowe, Andy ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Flitton, Rick ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Saleeba, Tom ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Coish, Caleb ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
Co-author
TERN Ecosystem Processes
80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- For the Australian rangelands, the collation of these data will: increase understanding of the dynamics of plant species and soils; substantially increase knowledge of the carbon and other important nutrient budgets of the rangelands; improve quality of remote sensing products for rangelands; input into DNA barcoding of Australian vegetation; help understand the biogeography underpinning and threatening processes impacting Australian rangeland ecosystems; assist state and federal agencies to meet their monitoring and reporting obligations; create a photographic reference of Australia's rangeland bioregions to enhance existing state photo reference libraries; enable researchers and land managers to assess current land 'state' for a variety of purposes depending on how the data is used; identify the climate zones, bioregions, land types and ecosystems where changes are occurring and the management regimes and/or pressures contributing to these changes.
- 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
- TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, NCRIS.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Sparrow, Ben ()
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia
Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus
Waite
SA
5064
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Various ecological plots and transects across Australia.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2010-10-30
- Title
- TERN Surveillance Monitoring
- Website
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TERN Surveillance Monitoring
Related documentation
- Title
- White, A., Leitch, E., Sparrow, B., Caddy-Retalic, S., Lowe, A., Flitton, R. and Foulkes, J., 2012. Ausplots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual, Version 1.2.9. [online] Tern.org.au.
- Website
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White, A., Leitch, E., Sparrow, B., Caddy-Retalic, S., Lowe, A., Flitton, R. and Foulkes, J., 2012. Ausplots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual, Version 1.2.9. [online] Tern.org.au.
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- abundance of coarse fragments
- Unitless
- abundance of segregations
- Unitless
- accelerated erosion type
- Unitless
- angle count sampling hits
- Number
- aspect angle
- Degree
- climatic condition
- Unitless
- condition of soil surface when dry
- Unitless
- dead plant
- Unitless
- disturbance (event)
- Unitless
- dominant outcrop lithology
- Unitless
- drainage type
- Unitless
- dry soil colour
- Unitless
- erosion extent
- Unitless
- fine earth bulk density
- Gram Per Cubic Centimetre
- fine earth volume
- cubic centimetre
- fine earth weight
- Gram
- form of segregations
- Unitless
- fungi height
- Metre
- grade of pedality
- Unitless
- gravel bulk density
- Gram Per Cubic Centimetre
- gravel volume
- cubic centimetre
- gravel weight
- Gram
- ground cover - bare
- Percent
- ground cover - cryptogam
- Percent
- ground cover - cwd
- Percent
- ground cover - gravel
- Percent
- ground cover - green
- Percent
- ground cover - litter
- Percent
- ground cover - not collected
- Percent
- ground cover - outcrop
- Percent
- ground cover - rock
- Percent
- ground cover - unknown
- Percent
- growth form
- Unitless
- in-canopy sky
- Unitless
- individual count
- Number
- landform element
- Unitless
- landform pattern
- Unitless
- lithology of coarse fragments
- Unitless
- mass flowering event exists
- Unitless
- microrelief
- Unitless
- most dominant species
- Unitless
- mottle abundance
- Unitless
- mottle colour
- Unitless
- mottle size
- Unitless
- nature of segregations
- Unitless
- relative species abundance
- Percent
- scientific name
- Unitless
- second most dominant species
- Unitless
- second smallest peds pedality type
- Unitless
- second smallest peds size
- Unitless
- shape of coarse fragments
- Unitless
- size of coarse fragments
- Unitless
- size of segregations
- Unitless
- slope angle
- Degree
- smallest peds size
- Unitless
- smallest peds pedality type
- Unitless
- soil effervescence
- Unitless
- soil electrical conductivity
- decisiemens per metre
- soil fabric
- Unitless
- soil horizon
- Unitless
- soil oven dried weight
- Gram
- soil pH
- Unitless
- soil texture grade
- Unitless
- soil texture modifier
- Unitless
- soil texture qualification
- Unitless
- soil wet weight
- Gram
- species richness
- Number
- state of erosion
- Unitless
- subdominant substrate lithology
- Unitless
- substrate
- Unitless
- surface strew lithology
- Unitless
- surface strew size
- Unitless
- third most dominant species
- Unitless
- tree basal area
- square metres per hectare
- vegetation community extent
- Metre
- vegetation condition
- Unitless
- vegetative height
- Metre
- wet soil colour
- Unitless
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- TERN Surveillance Monitoring
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/
- File name
- 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
- <p>Attribution and citation is required in any publication that uses AusPlots data. We ask you to send citations and copies of publications arising from work that use these data to ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au, copy esupport@tern.org.au. </p><p> These data have been released in the spirit of open scientific collaboration. Data users are encouraged to consider consultation with ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au to minimize duplication of research.</p>
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- TERN Surveillance Monitoring data via TERN EcoPlots Portal
- OnLine resource
- TERN EcoPlots API
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- AusPlots Rangelands Protocols - Layout and Plot Photos: <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/72212e14-d04c-4cdc-96c4-2133a5064e6c">00. Introduction</a></li><li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/7200ed2a-45ad-4388-94cf-af6c924eecb6">03. Plot layout and positioning</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/03ba5e75-f322-4f80-a1e3-5a845e4dd807">04. Photo-panoramas</a></li></ul>
Process step
- Description
- AusPlots Rangelands Protocols - Vegetation and Structure: <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/1d39b897-d6d3-40e9-8113-8ebeab2cd38e">05. Vegetation vouchering - vascular plants</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/a526b5c5-5931-4460-ba17-68c0fcc3e710">06. Genetic and isotope sample vouchering</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/c5a32483-bf2f-421d-b03d-6d81e1195de2">07. Point intercept</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/872d0b1d-3ed0-4e25-a31a-f3ee4336acc6">08. Basal area</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/d5685cab-13e7-4939-9d77-1cca9254207a">09. Structural summary and homogeneity</a></li></ul>
Process step
- Description
- AusPlots Rangelands Protocols - Soil, Landscapes, Metagenomics: <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/dbd0b3ef-c9e6-42d9-9e40-53ff4733fe64">11. Soil and Landscapes</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><em><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/74615bb8-9cc5-4a63-868b-3258108ffcb4">A) Plot description</a></em></li> <li><em><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/5d5d06a4-9044-4900-a4eb-6de66fd707b9">B) Soil characterisation to 1 m+</a></em></li> <li><em><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/f890ebaa-e3c1-48dd-9197-12fd00ce8bdb">C) Soil observations</a></em></li> <li><em><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/48ef72ad-f863-42df-9c16-962a0d0d6e36">D) Soil bulk density</a></em></li> <li><em><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/2df4d74b-4c30-41db-9b8e-f93de39dce30">E) Soil samples</a></em></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/5bd66aff-7202-45cd-aca3-80c6a3ba4948">12. Soil metagenomics</a></li></ul>
Process step
- Description
- AusPlots Rangelands Protocols - Plot Description and Tools: <ul><li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/4c0dabaf-1771-465f-890f-be23337c530e">13. Plot and Physical Descriptions</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/9c621f55-3938-4cca-b91e-08e7820f0e6e">14. Field data collection app</a></li> </ul>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
-
urn:uuid/9210c331-ba96-4e0c-9554-f029d61534be
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9210c331-ba96-4e0c-9554-f029d61534be
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2013-01-29T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-08-04T00:00:00
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
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