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75 years of dryland science

This dataset contains global dryland literature abstracts from over the last 75 years (8218 articles) to identify areas in arid ecology that are well studied and topics that are emerging.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2015-12-31
Date (Publication)
2017-01-29
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
1

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.4227/05/588e6a779edf5
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

University of Sydney - Greenville, Aaron ()
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
Growth in the publication of scientific articles is occurring at an exponential rate, prompting a growing need to synthesize information in a timely manner to combat urgent environmental problems and guide future research.
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

University of Sydney - Greenville, Aaron ()
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
City Road
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Description
Global dataset on published literature.
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Temporal extent

Time period
1940-01-01 2015-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
  • DROUGHT
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Terrestrial ecology
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • individual count
  • Number
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Number
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • > 1000 km or > 10 degrees
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • one off
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Arid ecology
  • Literature Review

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
(C)2017 University of Sydney. Rights owned by University of Sydney.

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
Global_drylands_abstracts

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

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Meta-analysis: To review the literature on arid ecology we searched the ISI Web of Science with the following keywords: arid and ecology and terrestrial. We sorted articles by relevance and exported all articles with their abstracts from 1940 up to the end of 2015. Our search returned 9175 articles from this period. We removed articles with abstracts that did not share common words, resulting in 8218 articles and 49 913 shared words.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:3395

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/5005640b-6c1d-4ccf-8364-8d36097cee7d

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/5005640b-6c1d-4ccf-8364-8d36097cee7d

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-10-10T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-10T10:30:57.444928+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
Terrestrial ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
DROUGHT LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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