TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Vegetation Reserve, Photopoint Data
<p>This record is a collection of photopoints from surveys conducted in the TGB Osborn Vegetation Reserve (or Koonamore Vegetation Reserve (KVR)) since the early 1900s. Photographs have been taken approximately annually from 1926 until 2024 at a series of set positions (photopoints) by staff and students of the University of Adelaide. The duration of the record available digitally extends from 1907 (observations) to 2008 (photographs). These include stand-alone positions, corners of quadrats and points along transects. Photographs may have been taken in more than one direction at each point, and/or in black and white or colour. Each photograph was annotated according to what could be seen on the photograph, individual species identified, numbers given to each plant (not always reliable from event to event). Occasionally information on canopy diameter measured along EW and NS direction, plant height and plant mortality status is presented.</p>
This is version 2.0 of the Koonamore photopoint data release and supersedes any previous versions.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-06-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-05-27
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-11
- Edition
- 2.0
Publisher
Editor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network - Specht, Alison (Associate Professor)
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
Author
University of Adelaide
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Custodian
University of Adelaide
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Editor
University of Queensland - Fittock, Miranda ()
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
Co-author
University of Queensland - Specht, Alison (Associate Professor)
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- <p>In the mid-1920's Professor Theodore George Bentley Osborn, Professor of Botany in the University of Adelaide, put forward strong scientific arguments concerning the lack of knowledge of the ecology of arid zone vegetation, and the effect of grazing on it.</p> <p> In 1925, a parcel of land of around 390 ha was identified in Koonamore Station in South Australia and fenced to exclude rabbits and other stock, and Mr Wilcox, one of the directors, had a three-roomed house erected to serve as a field laboratory. The area was originally referred to as the Arid Region Flora Reserve but later was named the TGB Osborn Vegetation Reserve after its founder. For simplicity it is commonly referred to as the Koonamore Vegetation Reserve. There have been some unwanted animal incursions over the years, but these have been rare. In 1931, for example, rabbits were able to enter due to fence damage. Kangaroos and emus are not fully excluded.</p> <p>As is clear from the objectives stated by TGB Osborn, the reserve was to provide the basis for systematic measurements of the now-protected vegetation. Osborn and his team (including Prof. J.G. Wood and Mr Terry Paltridge) set up a series of quadrats (square plots) and photopoints within the reserve. A series of transects was later added. All of the foregoing were permanently marked, and observations on species occurrence (presence and abundance) and physical measurements of the plants were made repeatedly, but at varying intervals.</p>
- 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
University of Adelaide
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite Road
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Point of contact
School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite Road
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Biota
Extent
- Description
- The Reserve is located in the Koonamore Station, a sheep-grazing lease 400 km north-east of Adelaide, South Australia in predominantly chenopod shrubland with mean annual rainfall of about 200mm.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1907-07-16 2008-11-01
- Title
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Knowledge Base
- Website
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TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Knowledge Base
Related documentation
- Title
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Location Maps
- Website
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TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Location Maps
Related documentation
- Title
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Vegetation Reserve Overview
- Website
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TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Vegetation Reserve Overview
Related documentation
- Title
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Vegetation Reserve – Publications
- Website
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TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Vegetation Reserve – Publications
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- KVR
- Photopoint
- TGB Osborn Vegetation Reserve
- Time Series
- Long-term Monitoring
- Environmental Monitoring
- Enclosure
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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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- Edition
- 4.0
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- 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}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) VR Photopoint_Preview_2025_v3
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Photopoint_Data_Dictionary_2025_v2
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Photopoint_Observations_Data_2025v2
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Photopoint_Photopoint images
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Methods <br></br> For detailed methods, please see the Photopoint Metadata v2, 2025, available on the <a href="https://ternaus.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/3157656800/TGB%20Osborn%20(Koonamore)%20Photopoint_Preview_2025v3.pdf?api=v2">Photopoint Metadata Preview 2025v3</a>. <br></br> Three types of photopoints, those from stand-alone positions (n=37), the corners of quadrats (n=26), and those from points along transects (n=10). Each photopoint has a unique number and its location recorded. Each quadrat has two photopoints, usually but not always located at or near the northeast and northwest corners, the direction of each photograph being inward to the quadrat. Photographs were taken in black and white or colour (largely dependent on year) and for the first many decades stored as prints with negatives. During 2007-2008 the photo archive was digitised by Dr Dean Graetz using the photonegative collection. It is due to his efforts that we have digital copies of the photographs archived and made available on TERN EcoImages a. For access to the original hardcopy images and other records, contact the University Archives and/or the Faculty at the University of Adelaide.<br></br> The consistency of the photographic record between 1926 and 2008 (the time frame available from this source) is variable: some photopoints have an almost continuous observational record (e.g. PP1), while others are of shorter duration (e.g. the 20 years from 1968-1988). Observations including measurements taken from the photographs do not carry forward beyond 1988, except for PP15 and PP1 whose measurements extend respectively to 1989 and 1994. <br></br> Since October, 1977 most stand-alone photopoints were defined by a steel stake marking the location of the camera and another, painted in 20cm strips, 15m from the camera defining the centre of the field of view. For many years photos were taken with a SLR camera (type noted in original records) using a 50mm lens. A black and white photo was initially taken, and by the 1970's a colour photo was taken as well, until colour photographs were only taken. The photographs were printed and mounted on record cards with details of the camera and film used, the negative number and photographer. Each photograph was annotated according to what could be seen on the photograph, individual species identified, numbers given to each plant (not always reliable from event to event) and occasionally plants measured. It is the data from these and the photographs associated to them that are found in the TDDP and TERN EcoImages respectively. The availability of images and observations from them is shown in the following tables, Table 1 for stand-alone photopoints, Table 2 for quadrat photos and Table 3 for transect and fire quadrat photos (please refer <a href="https://ternaus.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/3157656800/TGB%20Osborn%20(Koonamore)%20Photopoint_Preview_2025v3.pdf?api=v2">Photopoint Metadata Preview 2025v3</a>. <br></br> When more than one image is available per photopoint per date of observation, a maximum of four images is selected and listed in the observation file. Each image is named by photopoint ID, the date of the image (photopointID_yyyymmdd) and each is given a unique sequence number. These match directly across both sources, TERN Ecoimages and the TDDP observation file. If black and white and colour images are available for the same date and location, at least one of each is included in the four images available.<br></br> Videos produced by Dean Graetz based on the repeat photographs taken at the different photopoints can be accessed at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRT7ZWkN70A">Recalling the Past 00 Overview</a>.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/05f37d50-935e-4a0a-b45e-cb1b606ce476
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Title
- TGB Osborn (Koonamore) Vegetation Reserve, Background to Collection
Identifier
- Codespace
- https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/
- Description
- Parent Metadata Record
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/05f37d50-935e-4a0a-b45e-cb1b606ce476
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-05-01T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-11T22:47:47.276280+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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