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
Publisher
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
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- 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
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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
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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
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Plant Name Index
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- 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/
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- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
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- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 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
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- VAST-2_Chronology_Datasheet_South_Brooman_State_Forest
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- VAST-2_Scoring_Sheet_South_Brooman_State_Forest
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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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
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urn:uuid/355e05f0-5387-42dd-9872-3d2e974051e5
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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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
Overviews
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