TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Samford Peri-Urban Vegetation Structure and Cover Data 2010
This data contains vegetation structure, species composition, cover and species basal area data collected at seven sites within the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF) in 2010
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-07-15
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-05-11
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Queensland University of Technology - Grace, Peter (Professor of Global Change and Theme Leader)
2 George St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
Brisbane
QLD
4000
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The surveys were conducted for the purposes of compiling a botanical species list and reference collection for the study site, and for providing data related to species composition, cover, abundance and density for specific transects and broad vegetation areas.
- 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
Queensland University of Technology - Grace, Peter (Professor of Global Change and Theme Leader)
2 George St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
2 George St
Brisbane
QLD
4000
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- The Samford Peri-Urban site is located 20 km north-west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The vegetation within the site is classified as open Eucalypt and notophyll vine forest.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2010-07-15 2010-07-29
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
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- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Vegetation
- SERF
- Botanical
- Survey
- Species
- Plants
- Samford
- Photographs
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
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- 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}.
- 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 authors for queries regarding the data.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
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- OnLine resource
- Samford_vegetation_strucure_and_cover_data
Distribution Information
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- Samford_vegetation_strucure_and_cover_site_information
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- Samford_vegetation_strucure_and_cover_data_dictionary
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- Samford_vegetation_photos_site_1_and_2
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- Samford_vegetation_photos_site_3
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- Samford_vegetation_photos_site_4
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- Samford_vegetation_photos_site_5
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- Samford_vegetation_photos_site_6
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- Samford_vegetation_photos_site_7
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- OnLine resource
- Samford_vegetation_site_photos
Resource lineage
- Statement
- A vegetation survey was carried out for each transect based on the guidelines outlined in the ‘Methodology for Survey and Mapping of Regional Ecosystems and Vegetation Communities in Queensland’ (Neldner et al. 2005). Once a transect location was determined, two parallel 50m tapes were laid down at a 10m interval. General plot information was first recorded. Data included site number, survey date, recorders’ names and survey level. All transects were assigned a secondary level classification. Secondary level sites provide a detailed description of the regional ecosystems and vegetation communities being surveyed (Neldner et al. 2005). Location information was recorded, including a locality description, source of location data (GPS), transect coordinates (the centre point of each transect), and the precision of the GPS recording. A site description was provided.<br>Landform information was recorded. Broad classes of landform based on HERBRECS (The Queensland Herbarium’s floristic records database) divisions, and landform element, erosion pattern, and landform pattern derived from Speight (1990) were entered. Slope data, including slope type sourced from Speight (1990), slope angle derived from a laser range finder, slope aspect and slope elevation calculated by GPS, were recorded.<br> Ground cover measurements were determined by observational estimate. A percentage was assigned to leaf litter, rock, bare ground and cryptogam (mosses, algae, fungi) cover.<br> A Specht Structure Code was sourced from Neldner et al. (2005), reflecting the transects’ broad vegetation type (e.g. open forest, woodland). A line estimate of the crown cover of the upper stratum, or T1 layer, was recorded. This was achieved by noting the intersection points of the T1 species along each 50m tape measure. The median height, height range, total percentage cover, and key species percentage cover were recorded for each stratum. Heights were measured using a laser range finder, and crown covers were determined from visual estimates. A stem count by strata was carried out for each tree and shrub species. Percentage covers of species by strata were recorded. Basal area was recorded by species and stratum using a single, 360º sweep of a Bitterlich stick. A basal area factor of 1 from the 25m mark was used, attributing each tree counted with a basal area of 1m²/ha (Neldner et al. 2005). Photos of species and the landscape were taken at each site for reference.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Speight, J. G. (1990). Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
- Website
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https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/pub?list=BRO&pid=procite:f7a36a31-3f11-42b2-a557-c35a816a5780
Method documentation
- Title
- Neldner, V. J., Wilson, B.A, Thompson, E.J. and Dillewaard H.A. (2005). Methodology for Survey and Mapping of Regional Ecosystems and Vegetation Communities in Queensland. (ed E. P. A). Queensland Herbarium, Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane.
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/e8e06935-856c-408a-b9e1-7aa9fd6aa47b
- 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/e8e06935-856c-408a-b9e1-7aa9fd6aa47b
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-05-11T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-05-11T00:00:00
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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