TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Vertebrate Pest Sand Trap Monitoring
The dataset contains passive activity index data used to monitor the distribution and activity of introduced carnivores in the habitat of endangered species within Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-08-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-02-21
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Director of National Parks - Bennison , Kerrie (NRM Manager)
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT, 2600, Australia
Parkes
ACT
2600
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is situated in the south west of the Northern Territory, 320 km south west of Alice Springs. The park covers 1325 km2 and is managed jointly between Parks Australia and Anangu Traditional Owners. Since 2009 a vertebrate pest monitoring program has been undertaken to determine: the distribution, abundance and status of carnivorous predators throughout the known habitat areas for endangered species; the level of threat posed to endangered species populations by carnivorous predators; and to understand the seasonal and environmental patterns associated with predation levels. Surveys involve using track identification to ascertain the activity levels of foxes, cats and dingoes.
- 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
- Traditional Owners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Director of National Parks - Bennison , Kerrie (NRM Manager)
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT, 2600, Australia
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace
Parkes
ACT
2600
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
- Description
- The survey covers the north western section of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. IBRA region: Great Sandy Desert
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2009-01-01 2013-07-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Flora, Fauna And Biodiversity (9608)
- Long-Term Species Monitoring
- Population Dynamics
- Exotic Animal Species
- National Reserve System
- Vertebrate/Invertebrate Pest Species Management
- Cat
- Red Fox
- Feral Cats
- Foxes
- dingoes
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
- 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 /><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
- (C)2014 Director of National Parks (Parks Australia). Rights owned by Director of National Parks (Parks Australia).
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- Repeated Measures of Hair/Track/Dung Sampling to confirm species presence.
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- Sand tracking station survey: In 2009, 31 permanent sand tracking stations were established every 1000m along a 30km transect of dirt road. The tracking stations are 1 m wide and extend to the edge of the road on both sides. Each morning for three consecutive mornings the numbers of fox, cat and dingo tracks are recorded at each station before it is swept clean. In February 2011, a further 30 permanent sand tracking stations were established, so as to occur every 500m along the 30km transect of dirt road. An activity index is then calculated by dividing the number of tracks with the number of tracking station monitored throughout the survey.
Process step
- Description
- Method Drift Description: Between January 2009 and April 2010, 31 sand tracking stations were monitored every 1000m over 30km of dirt road. Between February 2011 and July 2013, 30 additional stations were added, totalling 61 stations monitored every 500m over the 30km of dirt road. Data was unable to be collected at all stations in some sampling periods due to station disturbance, eg heavy vehicle traffic or rain (fields read "no data" or "rain affected" in these instances). Activity index calculations have been adjusted accordingly for these periods.
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/fdaf299a-c38d-4c3d-a1a1-c8eb58da2885
- 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/fdaf299a-c38d-4c3d-a1a1-c8eb58da2885
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2014-08-14T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-01-06T02:28:53
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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Associated resources
Not available