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Monitoring the response of littoral and floodplain vegetation and soil moisture flux to weir pool raising -2015

This data set is the result of the investigation on the response of littoral and floodplain vegetation and soil moisture flux to weir pool raising in 2015. The data was collected over 18 months between August 2015 and December 2016- before, during and after the weir pool levels were raised. The data set contains information on Tree Condition including crown extent and density, bark form, epicormic growth and state, reproduction, crown growth, leaf die off and damage, and mistletoe. Leaf Water Potential, taken predawn and in the middle of the day. Plant Area Index/Canopy Cover measurements using hemispherical photos. Soil Chemistry measurements- total soil moisture (gravimetric water content; %), soil suction (or soil matric potential), Electrical Conductivity and soil pH.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2015-08-12
Date (Publication)
2019-09-17
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/5d806557deee7
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

South Australian Research and Development Institute - Nicol, Jason ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
A series of 11 Locks and Weirs along the River Murray are managed to provide stable water levels for irrigation and navigation, resulting in reduced hydrological variability and complexity. Flow stabilization favors species adapted to comparatively stable, lentic conditions and potentially limits the life history processes of native biota adapted to intermittent and lotic environments. Flow regulation contributes to reduced river-floodplain connectivity leading to a subsequent decline in riparian and floodplain vegetation. Various water level management interventions have been trialed along the River Murray to provide environmental benefits by restoring a greater range of water regimes. The Weir pool surcharge used in this project is one method used to increase river channel water level variability and deliver water to temporary wetlands and low-lying floodplain. This can benefit vegetation that has reduced in condition, distribution and abundance because they are less tolerant of stable regulated conditions or have become water stressed as a result of a loss in river-floodplain connectivity or increased dry intervals between inundation events.
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
The authors would like to thank Josh Fredberg, Leonardo Mantilla, Chris Fulton and Emrys Leitch for their field assistance and to Daniel Hanisch, Karl Hillyard and Luciana Bucater for comments on earlier drafts. The authors would also like to thank Phil Strachan, Peter Haslett and Nicole Hahn for access to their properties and sites. This project has been managed by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, through the Riverine Recovery Project staff. Thank you to Emrys Leitch and Ben Sparrow from TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network), University of Adelaide, for their consultation, advice and ongoing assistance regarding setting up the AusPlots. The authors would also like to thank Jason and Georgia Koerber for contributing the SpaceLAI software for analysis of plant area index from the canopy cover images and Josh Fredberg for making the maps used throughout the report. Funding was provided by the Riverine Recovery Project, South Australia.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

South Australian Research and Development Institute - Nicol, Jason ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite Road
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Inland waters
  • Biota

Extent

Description
9 Plots clustered in groups of 3 located between Renmark and Waikerie on the lower reaches of the Murray River in South Australia IBRA: Riverina
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Temporal extent

Time period
2015-08-12 2016-02-01
Title
Monitoring the response of littoral and floodplain vegetation and soil moisture flux to weir pool raising - 2015
Website
Monitoring the response of littoral and floodplain vegetation and soil moisture flux to weir pool raising - 2015

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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • SOIL MOISTURE
  • RIPARIAN WETLANDS
  • HYDROLOGIC REGIME
  • FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Plant biology
  • Geochemistry
  • Freshwater ecology
  • Soil sciences
  • Environmental management
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • field species name
  • Unitless
  • soil pH
  • Unitless
  • vegetation condition
  • Unitless
  • soil moisture content
  • Percent
  • soil electrical conductivity
  • Microsiemens per Metre
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
  • Percent
  • Microsiemens per Metre
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Monthly - < Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Ecophysiology
  • Ecological Modelling
  • Ecosystem Assessment And Management
  • Physical And Chemical Conditions Of Water

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/

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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)2019 Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia. Rights owned by Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia.

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
Weir_pool-raising_monitoring_sites

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

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

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
Abstract
PlaceHolder Text = Name of the report

Resource lineage

Statement
Monitoring the response of littoral and floodplain vegetation and soil moisture flux to weir pool raising- 2015 Susan Gehrig, Kate Frahn and Jason Nicol SARDI Publication No. F2015/000390-2 SARDI Research Report Series No. 899 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305702002_Monitoring_the_response_of_littoral_and_floodplain_vegetation_and_soil_moisture_flux_to_weir_pool_raising_-_2015
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:3577

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/79f8b1ff-04c6-462b-9486-c5b979625f87

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/79f8b1ff-04c6-462b-9486-c5b979625f87

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-12-19T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:41:16.537796+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
Environmental management Freshwater ecology Geochemistry Plant biology Soil sciences
GCMD Science Keywords
FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS HYDROLOGIC REGIME RIPARIAN WETLANDS SOIL MOISTURE

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