Samford Peri-Urban Site, Ecosystem Water Use, Influence of Vegetation Type and Topography, 2011-2014
The data set contains information on the soil water content at various depths in the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF), Samford Peri-Urban Site. Information on soil water content is provided from two sensors, i.e., 1) Sentek Solo, for high frequency sampling and 2) Sentek Diviner, for coarser resolution sampling.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-07-26
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-10-20
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Queensland University of Technology - Rowlings, David ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
Co-author
Queensland University of Technology - Van Dam, Remke ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
Co-author
Queensland University of Technology - Labadz, Martin ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
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
Queensland University of Technology - Van Dam, Remke ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
2 George Street
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- 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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- 2011-07-26 2014-07-04
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- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Ecosystem water storage
- Ecosystem water use
- Samford Peri-Urban
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- 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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- <br>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.</br>
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- <br>Please contact the data owners for use of the data set</br>
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- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
Distribution Information
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- SamfordPeri-Urban_Ecosystem_Water_Use_DataDictionary
Distribution Information
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- SamfordPeri-Urban_Ecosystem_Water_Use_SoloSensorData_2014
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Distributor
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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
- Since January 2011, soil water use from each vegetation community has been monitored using a combination of high temporal resolution automatic and manually sampled soil moisture probes. Using the high definition LIDAR derived digital elevation model, a number of permanent transects within each community of the SERF property were identified. These transects were orientated towards the slope aspect, allowing flows to be traced down the sub-catchment slopes and into the riparian zones and the creek system. Transects were located to ensure the maximum coverage of the different vegetation community types. Each transect encompassed only a single vegetation community, with the exception of the riparian vegetation which included the lowest monitoring point on several transects to link with stream water data. Each transect contained at least 3 soil water monitoring sites, encompassing the upslope, mid-slope and lower slope areas. High resolution soil moisture data is measured using 19 FDR (frequency domain reflectometry) probes (Sentek Solo, Odyssey GLRL) logged at 30 minute intervals. Each probe contains 4-5 sensors, allowing specified depths/horizons of the soil profile to be continuously monitored. At least one transect per land use consists solely of automated sensors allowing soil water movement down the slope profile to be monitored. The high resolution data is replicated on the remaining transects with soil profiles measured manually on a weekly basis using a portable soil water profiler (Diviner 2000, Sentek).<br></br> Methods: 1) Sensor deployment: FDR moisture probes were installed across the SEQ Peri-urban supersite (SERF node) at 30 locations in July 2011. Volumetric water contents were recorded from up to 13 depths to a maximum soil depth of 130 cm. A combination of high temporal resolution (30 minutes intervals) and coarser weekly sampling was used to extend the spatial coverage across the research station. For high frequency sampling (Sentek Solo) the depth-wise sensor distribution was determined by the major soil horizon depths at each location with at least one sensor located in each of the A1, A2 and B2 horizons. For coarser resolution sampling (Sentek Diviner), data were collected at 10cm depth intervals. Sensors were calibrated for each soil horizon against gravimetric moisture contents (105°C for 24 hours) at a dry, saturated and intermediate moisture level.<br></br> Instrumentation details: a) Sentek Solo (EnviroSCAN Sentek, Stepney, SA, Australia); b) Sentek Diviner (EnviroSCAN Sentek, Stepney, SA, Australia) Sensor depths (cm) 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80<br></br> 2) Ecosystem Water-Use study: Using the high definition LIDAR derived digital elevation model, a number of permanent transects within each community of the SERF property were identified. These transects were orientated towards the slope aspect, allowing flows to be traced down the sub-catchment slopes and into the riparian zones and the creek system. Transects were located to ensure the maximum coverage of the different vegetation community types. Each transect encompassed only a single vegetation community, with the exception of the riparian vegetation which included the lowest monitoring point on several transects to link with stream water data. Each transect contained at least 3 soil water monitoring sites, encompassing the upslope, mid-slope and lower slope areas.
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Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
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- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1dcc52f3-d4d4-4f6f-a036-eca1c685a906
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-04-17T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T09:55:08.397797+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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