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South Brooman State Forest, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

<br>The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about South Brooman State Forest, NSW.

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Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: The site was originally eucalypt tall open forest, multi-aged open, dry sclerophyll forest. The main overstorey species were spotted gum (<em>Corymbia maculata</em>), <em>Eucalyptus muelleriana</em>, <em>E. paniculata</em>, <em>E. pilularis</em>. The main understorey species were <em>Acacia spp.</em>, <em>Acmena spp.</em>

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Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">

<li>1830: Unmodified</li>

<li>1880: Area picked over for high quality sawlogs</li>

<li>1945: Area picked over for high quality sawlogs</li>

<li>1949: Sawlog harvesting - 85% of area</li>

<li>1959: Sawlog harvesting - 85% of area</li>

<li>1968: Commercial Thinning - 25% of area</li>

<li>1969: Area left to rehabilitate</li>

<li>1994: Wildfire - 100% of the area</li>

<li>1996: Pole harvesting - 5% of area</li>

<li>1998: Sawlog harvesting - 20% of the area</li>

<li>1999 and 2003: Hazard reduction</li>

<li>1997: Site was burnt (prescribed fire) followed by drought</li>

<li>2004-2011: Area left to rehabilitate</li></ul></br>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
1788-01-01
Date (Publication)
2012-06-30
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.4227/05/5088F50BD771D
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

VAST Transformations - Thackway, Richard ()
5 Spowers, Circuit Holder, Australian Capital Territory, 2611, Australia
Circuit Holder
Australian Capital Territory
2611
Australia

Contributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network - Specht, Alison (Associate Professor)
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia

Contributor

Forestry Corporation of NSW - Boer, Ken ()
121-131 Oratavia Avenue, West Pennant Hills, Beecroft, 2119, New South Wales, Australia
West Pennant Hills, Beecroft
New South Wales
2119
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.
Credit
This work was funded by ACEAS, a facility of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

VAST Transformations - Thackway, Richard ()
5 Spowers, Circuit Holder, Australian Capital Territory, 2611, Australia
5 Spowers
Circuit Holder
Australian Capital Territory
2611
Australia
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Description
The area comprises 220 ha site, Compartment 47, part of South Brooman State Forest.
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Temporal extent

Time period
1788-01-01 2011-12-31
Title
Thackway R. (2013). Transformation of Australia’s vegetated landscapes: the development of VAST-2. Zenodo
Website
Thackway R. (2013). Transformation of Australia’s vegetated landscapes: the development of VAST-2. Zenodo

Related documentation

Title
Thackway R. and Specht A. (2015). A system for capturing the effects of land use on vegetation condition. Science for the Total Environment, 534: 14-30
Website
Thackway R. and Specht A. (2015). A system for capturing the effects of land use on vegetation condition. Science for the Total Environment, 534: 14-30

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • INDIGENOUS VEGETATION
  • RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
  • Agricultural land management
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • fire area
  • Unitless
  • fire events
  • Unitless
  • soil organic matter
  • Unitless
  • plant height
  • Unitless
  • green ground cover
  • Unitless
  • plant functional type
  • Unitless
  • species richness
  • Unitless
  • ground cover
  • Unitless
  • species cover
  • Percent
  • vegetation structure
  • Percent
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Percent
  • Percent
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • Point Resolution
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • irregular
Australian Plant Name Index
  • Corymbia maculata (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson
  • Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt
  • Eucalyptus paniculata Sm.
  • Eucalyptus pilularis Sm.
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Selective Logging
  • Prescribed burning
  • High Quality Sawlogs
  • Commercial Thinning
  • Silvicultural Practices
  • Wildfire

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
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File type
png
Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

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

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
VAST-2_Chronology_Datasheet_South_Brooman_State_Forest

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
VAST-2_Scoring_Sheet_South_Brooman_State_Forest

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
<br>Information is compiled by year from published and unpublished sources. It includes qualitative and quantitative observations. It represents a structured narrative. Once compiled this narrative is translated into 22 indicators of vegetation condition which are grouped into three condition components: vegetation structure, species composition and regenerative capacity.</br> <br>The pdf is a compilation of historical land use management of the site using 12 core attributes which describes the transformation of a native vegetation community relative to its reference state.</br> <br>The spreadsheet provides the scores on the effects of the land management practices on the 22 indicators. Each indicator is scored from 0 to 1 for each year of the historical record; where 1 represents the reference state for each vegetation and environmental indicator, and 0 is where that vegetation indicator and/or ecological function is absent. The spreadsheet is used to sum and weight the indicators into the respective components of vegetation condition i.e. regenerative capacity, species composition and vegetation structure. The weighted transformation scores are then added to produce a single transformation index of vegetation condition for each year of the historical record. The results could be graphed and annotated to show the response of the plant community under different land use and management regimes.</br>
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
Step 1. Select a representative site in terms of soil and landscape, and pre-European vegetation community.

Process step

Description
Step 2: Locate that site using google earth and record its co-ordinates in the VAST-2 Chronology Datasheet

Process step

Description
Step 3: Review relevant literature for the site and region, compiling information on land use history and associated land management practices. Simultaneously record for same year effect and impact of those practices on vegetation condition.

Process step

Description
Step 4: Identify a group of specialists with ecological knowledge about the site who can revive, validate and identify gaps in the chronology and the accuracy of the data.

Process step

Description
Step 5: Translate the observations from step 4 into 22 separately accessed vegetation condition indicators.

Process step

Description
Step 6: Circulate the results of scoring of the 22 indicators and their aggregates including the graphs to the specialists identified in the step 4.

Process step

Description
Step 7: Send results to Richard Thackway for incorporation into the ACEAS portal.

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/355e05f0-5387-42dd-9872-3d2e974051e5

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

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/355e05f0-5387-42dd-9872-3d2e974051e5

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2023-05-10T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:43:26.379512+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
Agricultural land management Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
GCMD Science Keywords
INDIGENOUS VEGETATION RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION

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