AusPlots Forest Fuel Survey site-level data summary, 2014 - 2015
The forest fuel survey dataset comprises site-level summary data from the well-designed fuel load surveys across 48 AusPlots Forests- 1-ha monitoring plots across Australia. Data presented here includes: [1] Site identifiers (ID and Site Name) and site location and site-specific notes from fuel survey campaign; [2] site survey dates (start date and end date); [3] Site climatic information (air temperature and relative humidity); [4] Average height of plants and the stem densities in those sites; [5] Fuel bed biomass measurements that include live or dead grass, shrub, vines cover; [6] Litter, Fine Woody and Coarse Woody Debris stocks and production; [7] Soil Nutrient concentration (Soil Carbon, Soil Hydrogen and Soil Nitrogen contents); [8] Duff depth and cover.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2022-03-22
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-04-06
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-09-23
- Edition
- 1.0
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Publisher
Author
University of Tasmania - Bowman, David (Professor)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Co-author
University of Tasmania - Ebsworth, Elinor (Senior Ecologist at Nature Advisory Pty Ltd.)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The TERN AusPlots Forest Monitoring Network is a continental scale plot based monitoring network that was established to improve our understanding of tree growth, forest productivity and carbon dynamics in tall eucalypt forests in relation to continental scale environmental gradients. The permanent plot network provided here supports the infrastructure and data for all aspects of forest dynamics over long periods of time. Between October 2014 and March 2015, fuel load surveys were conducted in the 48 large 1 ha Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network plots in mature, highly productive tall eucalypt forests across the Australian continent.
- 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
- SW Wood (UTAS) and LD Prior (UTAS) assisted in the study design. J Sanger (UTAS) and G Daniels assisted in the data collection. <br> This work was jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project, and the Queensland Government Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF).”
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
University of Tasmania - Bowman, David (Professor)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Churchill Avenue
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
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- Biota
- Environment
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- Description
- The TERN AusPlots Forest Monitoring Network is distributed within the extent of tall eucalypt forests. This includes the tall forests of southwest Western Australia, Central and Southern Victoria, Northern and Southern New South Wales, Tasmania and Far North Queensland.
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- Time period
- 2014-10-09 2015-03-06
- Title
- Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network, Survey Protocols Manual, version 1.6.
- Website
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Ausplots Forest Monitoring Network, Survey Protocols Manual, version 1.6.
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- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
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- air temperature
- degree Celsius
- relative humidity
- Percent Relative Humidity
- coarse woody debris stock mean
- Kilogram Square Meter
- coarse woody debris sd
- Kilogram Square Meter
- plant fuel dry biomass
- Percent
- fine woody debris diameter class
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- mean fine litter stock
- Kilogram Square Meter
- fine litter stock sd
- Kilogram Square Meter
- plant fuel dry biomass
- Gram per Square Meter
- plant fuel height
- Centimetre
- mean leaf litterfall stock
- Gram per Square Meter
- mean fine litter stock
- Gram per Square Meter
- leaf litterfall stock sd
- Gram per Square Meter
- mean leaf litterfall production
- Gram per Square Meter
- mean fine litter production
- Gram per Square Meter
- fine litter production sd
- Gram per Square Meter
- leaf litterfall production sd
- Gram per Square Meter
- mean fine litter production
- Unitless
- mean leaf litterfall turnover
- Unitless
- stem density
- Number per hectare
- stem height
- Centimetre
- soil carbon content
- Percent
- hydrogen content
- Percent
- soil nitrogen content
- Percent
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- degree Celsius
- Percent Relative Humidity
- Kilogram Square Meter
- Kilogram Square Meter
- Percent
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- Kilogram Square Meter
- Kilogram Square Meter
- Gram per Square Meter
- Centimetre
- Gram per Square Meter
- Gram per Square Meter
- Gram per Square Meter
- Gram per Square Meter
- Gram per Square Meter
- Gram per Square Meter
- Gram per Square Meter
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- Number per hectare
- Centimetre
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- Percent
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- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Biogeography
- Fire Ecology
- Long-Term Community Monitoring
- Macroecology
- Ecosystem Assessment And Management (9605)
- Environmental And Natural Resource Evaluation (9606)
- Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales (960805)
- Forbs
- Introduced Plants
- Lichens
- Monocots
- Mosses
- Shrubs
- Worts
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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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- 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
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- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
- Other constraints
- (C) 2015 the University of Tasmania, University of Adelaide. Rights owned by the University of Tasmania, University of Adelaide. Rights licensed subject to TERN-BY 1.0.
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- ausplots-forest-fuelDuffDepthData
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- ausplots-forest-fuelCoarseAndFineWoodyDebrisLitterfallData
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Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
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Process step
- Description
- Fuel and grass height measurements: The height of fuel (litter or woody fuels) and grass above the mineral soil are measured at eighteen points along the transect (nine 10 cm increments from each 7.0 m and 22.0 m) using a builders ruler [see Manual<a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/59ad2f10-c14d-474b-8efd-eb1f6e518dba"> Fuel load survey</a>].
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- Woody fuel counts : Woody fuels were measured in four size classes [(1) 0-6 mm; (2) 6-25 mm; (3) 25-76 mm; and (4) >76 mm] at varying scales along the 28.3 m transect. Woody fuels were measured as counts of vertical planar intercepts. Size classes (1) and (2) were counted along two 2 m sub-transects between 6-8 m and 20-22 m. Size class (3) is counted in two 4m sub-transects between 5-9 m and 19-23 m. Size class (4) is counted along the entire 28.3 m transect. The diameter at intercept is also recorded for size class (4), as well as the estimated diameter of the hollow centre (if present) [see Manual<a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/59ad2f10-c14d-474b-8efd-eb1f6e518dba"> Fuel load survey</a>].
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- Fine litter, grass, herbs and vines measurement : The projective cover and mass of fine litter, grass, herbs and vines were recorded separately from two 1x1 m quadrats at 7-8 m and 22-21 m along the transect. A representative sample of each component from the site was collected, taken to the lab, weighed, dried to a constant weight at 70°C and re-weighed to estimate moisture content [see Manual<a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/59ad2f10-c14d-474b-8efd-eb1f6e518dba"> Fuel load survey</a>].
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- Duff depth measurement: The depth of duff (where present) was recorded from two soil cores per 1 x 1 m quadrat, totalling 16 across the site[see Manual<a href="https://linkeddata.tern.org.au/viewer/ausplots/id/http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/59ad2f10-c14d-474b-8efd-eb1f6e518dba"> Fuel load survey</a>].
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- Soil Sampling: Soil samples were collected from 1 x 1 m quadrats, with four 10 cm soil cores being collected from each transect (two from each quadrat). Soil cores were bulked for each transect, kept in a cooler bag during the day, and dried in an oven for 48 hours at 105 degrees celsius on return to the lab [see Manual <a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/07dd19c4-5477-4069-b865-0fa6d840528d">Soil sampling].
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- Installation of litterfall traps : The litterfall traps used are 0.75 x 0.75 m in dimension and have an input area of 0.56 m2. Four litterfall traps were placed across the site. One corner of the litterfall trap aligned with a steel dropper. The frame for each litterfall trap has constructed from 32mm diameter PVC pipe, including four 57 cm lengths and four 6.8 cm lengths (which form the sides), and four 47 cm lengths (which form the legs). These are joined with four right-angle elbow joins and four T joins. The net for the litterfall trap was manufactured from a 1.8 x 1.8 m piece of shadecloth, which has splits along each side through which the side lengths of PVC pipe were threaded. The frame was assembled and secured with PVC cement solvent on- site. The legs have pre-drilled holes at the base, and have been pinned to the ground using tent pegs [see Manual<a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/924c0f99-7291-4c5a-a221-924d7a42fca6"> Litterfall traps</a>].
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- Installation of temperature and humidity data loggers : Three iButton data loggers have been installed at each site. Two are Thermochron DS1922L, which record temperature at four-hourly intervals, and one is a Hygrochron DS1923, which records both temperature and humidity at four-hourly intervals. iButtons have been attached to plastic fobs, which were wired on to the top of a steel dropper and placed inside the yellow safety cap.
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- Sampling Design : Gradient Designs; Repeated Measures; Self-selected (Landscape Scale) Sampling
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- Flora Sampling: Quadrat/Plot/Grid; Transect Sampling
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- EPSG/EPSG:4326
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- Geodetic Geographic 2D
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- Language
- English
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Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-03-22T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-09-23T00:00:00
Metadata standard
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- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
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- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
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- 1.0
Metadata standard
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- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
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- 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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