TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Cumberland Plain Vegetation Gentry Survey Data 2014
Gentry transects and quadrats were established to monitor the vegetation abundance, cover and structure of the mid-stratum and subordinate stratum of the core 1 ha plot in the Cumberland Plain site in 2014.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-03-28
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-03-22
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Western Sydney University - Rymer, Paul (Senior Lecturer In Ecological Genetics)
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia
Co-author
Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias (Associate Professor)
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Richmond
NSW
2753
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
Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias (Associate Professor)
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Bourke Street
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
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- Description
- The Cumberland Plain site is located in remnant Eucalyptus species woodland on the Cumberland Plain, at the University of Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury campus at Richmond, New South Wales, Australia.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2014-03-28 2014-12-04
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Species composition
- Forest structure
- Flora
- Cumberland Plain
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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- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- 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}.
- Other constraints
- 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 author/s for queries regarding the data.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cumberland_Plain_sub_stratum_gentry_survey_data
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cumberland_Plain_gentry_survey_data_dictionary
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cumberland_Plain_mid_stratum_gentry_survey_data
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Gentry surveys were conducted using the methodology outline in the<a href=https://supersites.tern.org.au/images/resource/SuperSites_Vegetation_Monitoring_Protocols_Ver1.21.pdf">TERN vegetation monitoring protocols</a>. <br> Mid-Stratum Gentry survey <br> A 50 m tape measure was established along the Gentry Transects (running in a northern or eastern direction) in the centre of the 2 m transect. Surveyors identified all woody plants (>1.5 m height) within 1 m of the centre tape. The position was recorded as the distance from the start of the transect, and the perpendicular distance along a 1 m rule (negative values recorded for southern and western directions). All mid-strata (> 1.5 m height) within the Gentry transect were fitted with a numbered aluminium tag. The tag was attached to the trunk or main branch using stainless steel wire looped around the stem. Trees with multiple stems were given multiple tags if forking below breast height. The species were identified by Drs Paul Rymer, Tony Haigh from WSU, and determined by the botanical identification service at the Herbarium of NSW (Barbara Wiecek, and Andrew Orme). Dead stems were not included. The diameter at breast height (DBH) of all tagged woody plants within the Gentry Transects were measured using digital callipers and a DBH tape for stems > 5 cm DBH. Plants with multiple stems had the largest stem at 1.3m height measured for DBH. The maximum height of all mid-strata within the Gentry transects was measured a measuring tape. Note that plants >5 m in height were not measured in this dataset. The cover of all mid-strata within the Gentry transects was measured using a 2 m rule (and 10 m measuring tape were required) at each of the cardinal points (N, S, E, W). Dead stems were no included.<br> Sub-Stratum Gentry survey <br> The sub-strata was surveyed in 100 (1m2) quadrats evenly distributed along the 10 Gentry Transects. The quadrats are positioned at 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,45,50m on each gentry transect. The orientation within the transect is from the centre 1 m to the right looking down the length of the transect (north or east). The position at the top / centre of the quadrat has been recorded. Note that the gentry transects are oriented in a northern or eastern direction. The dominant grass, herb and woody species were recorded. Note that the grass species group was not restricted to the Poaceae family, and included for example Lomandraceae (Lomandra filiformis). The species were identified by Drs Paul Rymer, Tony Haigh from WSU, and determined on-site by the botanical identification service at the Herbarium of NSW (Barbara Wiecek, and Andrew Orme). Dead stems were not included. The mean height of sub-strata within 100 quadtrats on the Gentry transects was measured a 1 m rule. The percentage cover of sub-strata within 100 quadtrats on the Gentry transects was estimated by eye. The height and percentage cover was recorded for the dominant species and entire group for the grass, herb and woody species separately.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocol
- Website
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https://supersites.tern.org.au/images/resource/SuperSites_Vegetation_Monitoring_Protocols_Ver1.21.pdf
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/cf4e79fb-30a9-42e7-aff4-fd1c145fcaf1
- 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/cf4e79fb-30a9-42e7-aff4-fd1c145fcaf1
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-22T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-03-22T00:00:00
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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