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Fleurieu Peninsula wetlands collated plant survey data Version.2

This is a collated plant survey data from the Fleurieu Peninsula wetlands (version.2). There is a biological and a spatial component to the dataset. [1] Biological data: This was collated from several sources, collected over the period 2000-2009 and used in the analyses for the paper <i>Diversity patterns of seasonal wetland plant communities mainly driven by rare terrestrial species</i> (Deane et al - Biodiversity and Conservation, DOI: <em>10.1007/s10531-016-1139-1</em>). Biological data were pre-processed to remove sampling bias (the method is described in the paper). Data are presence-absence of 215 native plant species (i.e., exotic species removed) from 76 seasonal wetlands (size range 0.5 - 35 ha) located on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia (centred on latitude 35.5 °S). [2] Spatial data: For each of the 76 wetlands a small amount of spatial data is also provided. Area, centroids, elevation and catchment.

The data could be of interest for any typical community data analysis (e.g. beta diversity, similarity, assembly), provided only native wetland plant species were of interest. Data were used to model extinction risk, species-area relationships, occupancy distributions and so on.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2009-12-31
Date (Publication)
2015-05-25
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
2.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.4227/05/57450480691AA
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

La Trobe University - Deane, David (Applied Ecologist)
Plenty Road and Kingsbury Drive, Bundoora, Victoria, 3086, Australia
Bundoora
Victoria
3086
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
Wetlands are among the most threatened habitats on Earth. They are essential components of functional landscapes, providing habitat for native flora and fauna as well as supporting critical ecosystem services. Loss of wetland biodiversity threatens these values. There is an urgent need to understand patterns of wetland biodiversity, the processes creating these and the risk of species loss to plan effective intervention. Species-area relationships have a successful, although controversial, history of quantifying the risk of extinction in terrestrial biomes, and can provide rapid estimates of extinction risk at a range of scales without the need for extensive datasets. Prior to my research, applications of species-area relationships in extinction risk were limited to island archipelagos and formerly continuous terrestrial habitats that had become fragmented. Naturally occurring, discrete habitat types such as wetlands have been ignored. I address this gap, demonstrating that area-based methods can, be successfully applied to predict extinction risk in wetland communities. Before considering extinction risk I analysed patterns of wetland plant diversity and occupancy and how competing community-assembly processes produce more or less unique combinations of species among wetlands. I showed that much of the plant community diversity in seasonal wetlands in South Australia is driven by rare terrestrial species of wetland fringes, which assemble from a much larger available species pool. The distribution of these rare species was not strongly related to wetland size, suggesting that changes in the number or total area of wetlands could result in different extinction dynamics, depending on how they affected endemic species. I therefore compared risks associated with loss of complete wetlands (patch loss), with loss of the equivalent wetland area while maintaining the total number of wetlands. I found that a higher extinction risk was associated with the loss of complete wetlands than the equivalent area loss shared among all wetlands. Moreover, for a given area loss, small wetlands had a much higher risk of species loss due to the distribution of endemic species.
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
There are two data custodians for component datasets used in this analysis. 1). South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources; 2). The Conservation Council of South Australia.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

La Trobe University - Deane, David (Applied Ecologist)
Plenty Road and Kingsbury Drive, Bundoora, Victoria, 3086, Australia
Plenty Road and Kingsbury Drive
Bundoora
Victoria
3086
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

Description
Wetlands are located on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. IBRA region: Kanmantoo
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Temporal extent

Time period
2000-01-01 2009-12-31
Title
Diversity patterns of seasonal wetland plant communities mainly driven by rare terrestrial species
Website
Diversity patterns of seasonal wetland plant communities mainly driven by rare terrestrial species

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • WETLANDS
  • PLANTS
  • BIODIVERSITY FUNCTIONS
  • INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Ecosystem function
  • Ecology
  • Conservation and biodiversity
  • Ecological applications
  • Environmental assessment and monitoring
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • field species name
  • Unitless
  • elevation
  • Metre
  • vegetation community area
  • Kilometre
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Metre
  • Kilometre
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 100 km - < 250 km or approximately 1 degree - < 2.5 degrees
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Monthly - < Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Ecological Modelling
  • Ecosystem Assessment And Management (9605)
  • Environmental And Natural Resource Evaluation (9606)
  • Biodiversity Inventory
  • Freshwater Ecology
  • Species Composition

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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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Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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License
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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
(C)2016 University of Adelaide. Rights owned by University of Adelaide.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

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  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Sci_binomial

Distribution Information

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  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
bio_aekosV2

Distribution Information

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  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
metadata_aekosV2

Distribution Information

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  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
SciBinomial

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
spatial_aekosV2

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
comName

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Resource lineage

Statement
Data Collection Summary: A range of probabilistic (area-controlled e.g., quadrats), systematic searches and simple species lists were used to collect the data in the sources collated. Data are collated from a number of different surveys, each using different methods to collect the data (described in source materials listed in the metadata). To control for sampling effort bias among the wetlands, an extensive data validation process was applied, that was based on the scaling of species richness with wetland area. This method and all data pre-processing is described in detail in the manuscript 'Diversity patterns of seasonal wetland plant communities mainly driven by rare terrestrial species' (Deane et al - Biodiversity and Conservation, DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1139-1) and in the supporting information available online. Users should note these data represent comparable and reproducible near-complete samples of wetland plant communities, but they are constrained statistically to those wetlands following the observed scaling relationship (species-area curve). As a result, sites of unusually high or low diversity are likely precluded from the dataset.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:3577

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/0b35d640-18b4-4e15-b60e-200f261216fa

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
Title
Fleurieu Peninsula wetlands- collated plant survey data

Identifier

Code
4ae271c9-ed60-4fe1-8c19-03e0ddf08876
Codespace
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/
Description
Parent Metadata Record

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0b35d640-18b4-4e15-b60e-200f261216fa

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-10-24T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:55:58.840128+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
Conservation and biodiversity Ecological applications Ecology Ecosystem function Environmental assessment and monitoring
GCMD Science Keywords
BIODIVERSITY FUNCTIONS INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES PLANTS WETLANDS

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