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TERN Surveillance monitoring program: Ecological Plot Survey Data and Samples collected from Field Sites across Australia

<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>

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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

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

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
  • 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
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
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
  • INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES
  • FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE
  • SOIL STRUCTURE
  • ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
  • LANDSCAPE
  • LANDSCAPE PATTERNS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Terrestrial Ecology
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • 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
  • fungal 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
  • 1 meter - < 30 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Decadal
Keywords (Discipline)
  • TERN Surveillance Monitoring

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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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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/

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

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/9210c331-ba96-4e0c-9554-f029d61534be

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2013-01-29T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2022-11-17T00:00:00

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
Terrestrial Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE PATTERNS SOIL STRUCTURE

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