• TERN Geospatial Catalogue
  •   Search
  •   Map

Great Western Woodlands Ant Abundance and Functional Classification Across Time Since Fire Chronosequence Data

This data contains ant species abundance, richness and functional groups sampled across a time since fire chronosequence exceeding 300 years in non-resprouting <em>Eucalyptus salubris</em> woodlands.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2012-10-16
Date (Publication)
2023-05-16
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/mqee-2331
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Gosper, Carl ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia

Co-author

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Pettit, Megan ()
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia

Co-author

Charles Darwin University - Andersen, Alan ()
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
Australia

Co-author

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australian Government - Yates, Colin ()
Locked Bag 104 , Bentley Delivery Centre , 6983, Western Australia, Australia
Bentley Delivery Centre
Western Australia
6983
Australia

Co-author

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Prober, Suzanne Mary (Senior Principal Research Scientist)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
Ants are Australia’s dominant faunal group in terms of biomass and energy flow. They occupy all trophic levels, act as ecosystem engineers, feature in many mutualistic interactions with plants, and are a key food resource for many vertebrates. Ants are also Australia’s best studied insect group in terms of biogeography and community dynamics. They are the most widely used invertebrate bio-indicators in environmental assessment and monitoring.
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
Funding was provided by: Department of Parks and Wildlife’s “A biodiversity and cultural conservation strategy for the Great Western Woodlands” Project: Great Western Woodlands Supersite. Australian SuperSite Network. Other funding: Australian Transect Network and CSIRO Land and Water
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Gosper, Carl ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia

Point of contact

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australian Government - Yates, Colin ()
Locked Bag 104 , Bentley Delivery Centre , 6983, Western Australia, Australia
Locked Bag 104
Bentley Delivery Centre
Western Australia
6983
Australia

Point of contact

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Prober, Suzanne Mary (Senior Principal Research Scientist)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
147 Underwood Avenue
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment

Extent

Description
The Great Western Woodlands site was established in 2012 on Credo Station, 110 km NNW of Kalgoorlie, WA.
N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
2012-10-16 2012-10-29
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
  • ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS
  • ARTHROPODS
  • ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
  • INSECTS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Environmental management
  • Ecological applications
  • Ecology
  • Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Great Western Woodlands
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • wet pitfall trap
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • ant functional type
  • Unitless
  • animal count
  • Number
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Number
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 250 meters - < 500 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • one off
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Ant functional groups
  • Eucalyptus woodland
  • Fire interval
  • Fire management
  • Great Western Woodlands
  • Succession

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
CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
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}.
Other constraints
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

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
GWW_ant_abundance_and_functional_classification_data_dictionary

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

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
Plot selection<br>A subset (51 of 72) of the sites established by Gosper et al. (2013a,b) in <em>Eucalyptus salubris</em> woodland across a time since fire chronosequence were selected. Site details can be found in Gosper et al. (2013b).<br>Ant sampling<br>Ants were sampled using 20 pitfall traps per site, in a grid with 10 m spacing, and operated for 48 hrs. All sites were sampled over the period 16- to 29-Oct-2012. Full details can be found in Gosper et al. (2015). Traps were plastic specimen containers, 40 mm diameter and 52 mm depth, and partly filled (~40 mL) with ethylene glycol as a preservative.<br>Ant sorting and classification<br>In each trap ants were sorted into species. The abundance of any species in a single trap was capped at 50 in order to prevent data distortions from traps placed near nest entrances or foraging trails. Ant species were assigned to a functional group following Andersen (1995, 1997) and Hoffmann and Andersen (2003).
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Title
Gosper, C.R., Prober, S.M., Yates, C.J. and Wiehl, G. (2013a) Estimating the time since fire of long-unburnt Eucalyptus salubris (Myrtaceae) stands in the Great Western Woodlands. Australian Journal of Botany 61, 11-21.
Website
https://www.publish.csiro.au/bt/BT12212

Method documentation

Title
Gosper, C.R., Yates, C.J. and Prober, S.M. (2013b) Floristic diversity in fire-sensitive eucalypt woodlands shows a ‘U’-shaped relationship with time since fire. Journal of Applied Ecology 50, 1187-1196.
Website
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24031416

Method documentation

Title
Gosper, C.R., Pettit, M.J., Andersen, A.N., Yates, C.J. and Prober, S.P. (2015) Multi-century dynamics of ant communities following fire in Mediterranean-climate woodlands: are changes congruent with vegetation succession? Forest Ecology and Management 342, 30-38.
Website
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112715000080?via%3Dihub

Method documentation

Title
Andersen AN (1995) A classification of Australian ant communities, based on functional groups which parallel plant life-forms in relation to stress and disturbance. J Biogeogr 22:15–29.
Website
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2846070

Method documentation

Title
Andersen AN (1997) Functional groups and patterns of organization in North American ant communities: a comparison with Australia. J Biogeogr 24:433–60.
Website
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2846163

Method documentation

Title
Hoffmann BD, Andersen AN (2003) Responses of ants to disturbance in Australia, with particular reference to functional groups. Austral Ecol 28:444–464.
Website
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1442-9993.2003.01301.x

Method documentation

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/41abac88-ba96-4169-8119-cc813e4ebc1f

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/41abac88-ba96-4169-8119-cc813e4ebc1f

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2023-05-16T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-10T10:12:35.794896+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

 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology) Ecological applications Ecology Environmental management
GCMD Science Keywords
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES ARTHROPODS ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS INSECTS

Provided by

Share on social sites

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •   About
  •   Github
  •