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Robson Creek Rainforest Diameter, Height and Aboveground Woody Biomass Data

This data contains stem diameter, height measurement and above ground living biomass calculations for an Australian tropical rainforest derived from a comprehensive ground survey of a large area from 2009 - present. Diameter and height measurements for stems ≥10cm diameter at breast height were sampled within 25 x 1 ha plots within the Robson Creek Rainforest site. Repeated measurements of individual trees have been conducted in the core hectare plot in 2010, 2015, 2019 and 2023.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2023-10-24
Date (Publication)
2022-06-30
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1.0

Publisher

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

Author

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Bradford, Matt (Senior Experimental Scientist)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia

Co-author

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - McKeown, Adam (Senior Experimental Scientist)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia

Co-author

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Ford, Andrew (Research Technician)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia

Co-author

James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
This dataset records tree diameter and height data used to calculate above-ground biomass across vegetation types in Australia. This data is important for mapping and monitoring changes in plant growth, carbon storage and terrestrial energy fluxes.
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 the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
Status
On going

Point of contact

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Bradford, Matt (Senior Experimental Scientist)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
147 Underwood Avenue
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia

Point of contact

James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
1 James Cook Drive
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment

Extent

Description
The Robson Creek 25-ha rainforest site is located in the Danbulla National Park within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland.
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Temporal extent

Time period
2009-01-01
Title
Floristics, stand structure and above ground biomass of a 25 ha rainforest plot in the Wet Tropics of Australia
Website
Floristics, stand structure and above ground biomass of a 25 ha rainforest plot in the Wet Tropics of Australia

Related documentation

Title
Chave, J., Réjou-Méchain, M., Búrquez, A., Chidumayo, E., Colgan, M.S., Delitti, W.B., Duque, A., Eid, T., Fearnside, P.M., Goodman, R.C., Henry, M., Martínez-Yrízar, A., Mugasha, W.A., Muller-Landau, H.C., Mencuccini, M., Nelson, B.W., Ngomanda, A., Nogueira, E.M., Ortiz-Malavassi, E., Pélissier, R., Ploton, P., Ryan, C.M., Saldarriaga, J.G. and Vieilledent, G. (2014), Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees. Glob Change Biol, 20: 3177-3190.
Website
Chave, J., Réjou-Méchain, M., Búrquez, A., Chidumayo, E., Colgan, M.S., Delitti, W.B., Duque, A., Eid, T., Fearnside, P.M., Goodman, R.C., Henry, M., Martínez-Yrízar, A., Mugasha, W.A., Muller-Landau, H.C., Mencuccini, M., Nelson, B.W., Ngomanda, A., Nogueira, E.M., Ortiz-Malavassi, E., Pélissier, R., Ploton, P., Ryan, C.M., Saldarriaga, J.G. and Vieilledent, G. (2014), Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees. Glob Change Biol, 20: 3177-3190.

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
  • BIOMASS
  • BIOMASS DYNAMICS
  • PRIMARY PRODUCTION
  • COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
  • COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
  • VEGETATION
  • FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE
  • PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Forestry management and environment
  • Forestry sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Forestry biomass and bioproducts
  • Ecology
  • Forest biodiversity
  • Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
  • Forestry sciences
  • Mortality
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Robson Creek Rainforest
  • Robson Creek, core1ha
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • above-ground live biomass
  • Kilogram
  • stem diameter
  • Centimetre
  • stem height
  • Metre
  • wood density
  • Gram per Cubic Centimetre
  • estimated diameter at breast height
  • Centimetre
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Kilogram
  • Centimetre
  • Metre
  • Gram per Cubic Centimetre
  • Centimetre
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 100 meters - < 250 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • quadrennial
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Growth rate
  • Forest dynamics
  • Recruitment
  • Far North Queensland
  • Robson Creek
  • Rainforest
  • FNQ

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
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. 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> Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting. <br> 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
Robson_Creek_diameter_height_biomass_data_dictionary

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
TERN EcoPlots Portal

OnLine resource
Landscape Data Visualiser - Robson Creek Rainforest Diameter, Height and Aboveground Woody Biomass Data

OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other
Potential diameter and height outliers were assessed by looking at the absolute difference in 1) diameter and 2) height values for each individual stem between two measurement time points. If the diameter or height difference for an individual falls outside the 3rd standard deviation of the mean of that species, then it was flagged as a potential outlier.

Report

Result

Statement
All potential outliers were assessed by researchers who collected the data. Any value that was considered to be an outlier was removed from the final dataset.

Resource lineage

Statement
Site information:<br> 25 x 1 ha plots were established at the Robson Creek SuperSite in 2009. The vegetation in this plot is classified as complex mesophyll vine forest on granite and meta-sediment alluvium. Soil is classified as acidic, dystrophic, brown dermosol; medium, non-gravelly, clayey moderate.<br> Plot layout:<br> All 1-ha plots were divided into 25 subplots (20 m x 20 m ). Subplot numbering started in the south-west corner of each hectare and the order of subplot within each hectare is west to east, then east to west etc. Subplot numbering is continuous across the 25 ha plot, ending at 625 in the north-east corner of the 25 ha. Tree numbering is sequential within each hectare.<br> Tree survey:<br> All individual stems ≥ 10 cm diameter at breast height (1.3 m) were mapped within each 20 x 20 m subplot to an accuracy of 0.5 m. Each subplot is temporarily divided into 10 x 10 m quadrats to assist in mapping. Heights are recorded to the nearest 1 metre for each measured stem and are recorded as the length of the stem from ground to highest leaf, not height above ground level. Heights for easily visible and larger stems are measured using a Nikon laser range finder. The heights of all other stems are estimated by comparing to the measured stems. Stems ≥10 to ≤30 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) are marked with a tag attached to a wire encircling the stem. A line completely encircling the stem is painted at the point of measurement (POM). Repeated diameter and height measurements are conducted on all individual trees in the core hectare plot in 2010, 2015 and 2019. Height measurements were not taken in 2023, with height values from 2019 being used in biomass calculations <br> Biomass calculations:<br> Above-ground biomass was calculated for each stem >10 cm diameter at breast height using the allometric equation from Chave et al 2014: Chave, J., Réjou-Méchain, M., Búrquez, A., Chidumayo, E., Colgan, M.S., Delitti, W.B., Duque, A., Eid, T., Fearnside, P.M., Goodman, R.C., Henry, M., Martínez-Yrízar, A., Mugasha, W.A., Muller-Landau, H.C., Mencuccini, M., Nelson, B.W., Ngomanda, A., Nogueira, E.M., Ortiz-Malavassi, E., Pélissier, R., Ploton, P., Ryan, C.M., Saldarriaga, J.G. and Vieilledent, G. (2014), Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees. Glob Change Biol, 20: 3177-3190. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12629. Wood density values were were taken from a database of species of northern Australia (CSIRO unpublished)
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/5a864ec1-f780-4104-a242-7ff00e1f4962

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/5a864ec1-f780-4104-a242-7ff00e1f4962

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-01-28T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:44:54.531498+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
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology) Ecology Forest biodiversity Forestry biomass and bioproducts Forestry management and environment Forestry sciences Forestry sciences not elsewhere classified Mortality
GCMD Science Keywords
BIOMASS BIOMASS DYNAMICS COMMUNITY DYNAMICS COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE PLANT CHARACTERISTICS PRIMARY PRODUCTION VEGETATION

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