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Robson Creek Site, Far North Queensland, Moth Inventory At Canopy and Ground Level, 2009-2011

The record contains information on the moth assemblages at canopy and ground level at five sites within a 25 ha plot, at Robson Creek Site, Far North Queensland. Data on moth taxonomic information and the number of individuals sampled from the ground and canopy are provided for the sampling years, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-11-09
Date (Publication)
2012-06-01
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/b76s-j792
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University - Kitching, Roger ()
170 Kessels Road, Nathan, 4111, Queensland, Australia
Nathan
Queensland
4111
Australia

Collaborator

Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University - Ashton, Louise ()
170 Kessels Road, Nathan, 4111, Queensland, Australia
Nathan
Queensland
4111
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
Moths are a hyper diverse and ecologically important group and are good candidates as indicators for rapid categorization and monitoring of habitat quality and change. Moths have been used as indicators in a variety of different terrestrial ecosystems, such as rainforests, temperate forests and agro-ecosystems.
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

Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University - Ashton, Louise ()
170 Kessels Road, Nathan, 4111, Queensland, Australia
170 Kessels Road
Nathan
Queensland
4111
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota

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
2009-11-10 2011-04-25
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
  • INSECTS
  • BIODIVERSITY FUNCTIONS
  • INDICATOR SPECIES
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Forest biodiversity
  • Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
  • Conservation and biodiversity
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Robson Creek Rainforest
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • scientific name
  • Unitless
  • number of observations
  • Number
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Number
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Moth Diversity
  • Canopy and Understory
  • Far North Queensland

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
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File description
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File type
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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
<br> 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.</br>

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
RobsonCreekSite_FarNorthQueensland_MothInventoryData_2009

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
RobsonCreekSite_FarNorthQueensland_MothInventoryData_2010

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
RobsonCreekSite_FarNorthQueensland_MothInventoryData_2011

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
RobsonCreekSite_FarNorthQueensland_MothInventoryDataDictionary_2009-2011

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
Moth Sampling: Sampling occurred in three sampling sessions - November 2009, May 2010 and April 2011. Two Pennsylvania light traps were run simultaneously on each trapping night, with one trap at ground level and one in the canopy. Pennsylvania light traps with actinic black light bulbs are run on 12 volt lead acid batteries. Dicholorvos poison were used to kill moths and other insects <i>in-situ</i>. At each site one trap was raised to the canopy level and one trap was set at 1.5 m above the ground. Vertical stratification of moth species, between the ground and canopy levels can result in distinct ground and canopy fauna. Putting light traps at both the ground and canopy ensured the widest sampling of moth diversity (Beck et al., 2002). <br></br> All Lepidoptera with a wing length greater than 1&nbsp;cm were collected, pinned and sorted to morphospecies. Identification of the specimens were conducted using the Queensland Museum collections. The collection is held at Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Brisbane. By-catch (i.e., all other insect groups encountered in the light traps), have been stored in ethanol and are also held at Griffith University, Nathan Campus. The preliminary results observed from sampling are significant differences in the moth assemblages at the canopy and ground levels. Further analysis investigating the taxonomic composition of canopy and ground assemblages is underway.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/6fa2ce63-e053-4725-a1be-f35fb1c3bfac

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/6fa2ce63-e053-4725-a1be-f35fb1c3bfac

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2023-05-12T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:43:17.668488+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) Conservation and biodiversity Forest biodiversity
GCMD Science Keywords
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES BIODIVERSITY FUNCTIONS INDICATOR SPECIES INSECTS

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