Litchfield Savanna BASE Contextual, Soil Physico-Chemical Data 2014
Soil collection and analysis of chemical and physical attributes was carried out at the Litchfield Savanna site to provide contextual data for the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments (BASE) soil microbial diversity project.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-04-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-08-14
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-12-16
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Charles Darwin University - Hutley, Lindsay (Professor - Environmental Science)
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
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.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Charles Darwin University - Hutley, Lindsay (Professor - Environmental Science)
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Ellengowan Drive
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Elevation
- Geoscientific information
Extent
- Description
- The Litchfield Savanna site is located within Litchfield National Park, about 80 km south of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The area is classified as tropical savanna and is regularly exposed to fire.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2014-04-01 2014-04-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- soil depth
- Centimetre
- elevation of site
- Meter
- slope angle
- Percent
- aspect angle
- Degree
- soil moisture content
- Percent
- soil texture
- Number
- ammonium in soil
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil nitrate
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil potassium
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil sulfur
- Milligram per Kilogram
- soil organic carbon
- Percent
- water conductivity
- decisiemens per metre
- soil pH
- Unitless
- soil horizon
- Unitless
- soil phosphorus
- Milligram per Kilogram
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Soil
- Chemistry
- BASE
- Physico-chemical
- Litchfield Savanna
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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- 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}.
- 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
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Litchfield_BASE_contextual_soil_physico-chemical_data
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Litchfield_BASE_contextual_soil_physico-chemical_data_dictionary
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
- Soil samples were collected according to the methods described at the <a href="http://www.Bioplatforms.Com/soil-biodiversity/">BASE dataportal</a>. Nine discrete soil samples from a 25 m x 25 m quadrat, sampled at two depth ranges (0 – 10 cm and 20 – 30 cm). Eight samples were taken at the corners and mid-points of the 25 m x 25 m sides of the quadrat, with sample taken at the centre. The nine subsamples were combined for each depth, to return a single surface and deeper soil sample per quadrat. Samples for chemical and physical analysis were air-dried and transported to <a href="http://www.csbp-fertilisers.com.au/csbp-lab">CSBP laboratories, Perth, Australia</a>. <br> Soil moisture (%GWC) was measured gravimetrically, ammonium and nitrate were determined colorometrically, following extraction with 1M potassium chloride (25˚C). Available phosphorus and potassium were measured using the Colwell method. Sulphur was determined by the Blair/Lefroy Extractable Sulphur method. Organic carbon was determined using the Walkley-Black method. For pH, CaCl pH and electrical conductivity (EC1:5), soils were extracted in deionised water for 1 hour to achieve a soil: solution ratio of 1:5. The water pH and EC1:5 of the extract were subsequently measured using a combination pH electrode. After water pH and EC were measured, calcium chloride solution was added to the soil solution and after thorough mixing the calcium chloride pH determined. Diethylene-triamine-pentaacetic acid (DTPA) trace elements (Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn) were determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy following extraction with (DPTA) for 2 hours. Soils were extracted with a 0.01 M calcium chloride solution and analysed for extractable Aluminium on Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy (ICP). Boron was measured by ICP after hot CaCl2 extraction. Soil exchangeable cations (Mg, K, Na,Ca) were determined using a 1:5 soil:water extraction. This test was used in combination with the NH4Cl2/ BaCl2 extractable exchangeable cations test, where the value for water soluble exchangeable cations is subtracted from the value for NH4Cl2/ BaCl2 extractable exchangeable cations. Soil particle size was also measured. Soil were sieved to 2 mm (> 2mm = gravel), treated with hydrogen peroxide to remove the organic matter, then treated with a 1:1 Calgon - Sodium Hydroxide mixture to disperse particles. Using a standardized table of particle sedimentation times, 25ml aliquots were removed from the shaken sample and the remaining sample sieved. The samples were evaporated, oven dried and weighed to determine the sand, silt and clay contents.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Bissett, A., Fitzgerald, A., Meintjes, T. et al. Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database. GigaSci 5, 21 (2016)
- Website
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https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-016-0126-5
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/50fd899d-5b99-4f45-b9ab-5c3265ac14ec
- 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/50fd899d-5b99-4f45-b9ab-5c3265ac14ec
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-04-06T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-12-16T00:00:00
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
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