Queensland Biodiversity and Ecology Information System (QBEIS)
The QBEIS survey database (formerly CORVEG) contains ecosystem physical and vegetation characteristics, including structural and floristic attributes as well as descriptions of landscape, soil and geologic features, collected at study locations across Queensland since 1982. The resulting survey database provides a comprehensive record of areas ground-truthed during the regional ecosystems mapping process and a basis for future updating of mapping or other relevant work such as species modelling.<br /><br />
Only validated survey data is made publicly available and all records of confidential taxa have been masked from the dataset.
Data is accessible from the TERN Data Infrastructure, which provides the ability to extract subsets of vegetation, soil and landscape data across multiple data collections and bioregions for more than 100 variables including basal area, crown cover, growth form, stem density and vegetation height.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-06-30
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-02-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-12-16
Publisher
Author
Queensland Herbarium
Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong, Queensland, 4066, Australia
Toowong
Queensland
4066
Australia
Co-author
Department of Environment and Science (2017-2023), Queensland Government
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The QBEIS study locations are primarily used for ground-truthing and validating of Regional Ecosystems (RE) mapping (https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/plants/ecosystems/descriptions), and describing and classifying vegetation mapping units.
- 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 jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project, and the Queensland Government Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF).
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Queensland Herbarium
Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong, Queensland, 4066, Australia
Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha Road
Toowong
Queensland
4066
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Various sites across Queensland, Australia
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- Time period
- 1982-01-01
- Title
- Methodology for Survey and Mapping of Regional Ecosystems and Vegetation Communities in Queensland
- Website
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Methodology for Survey and Mapping of Regional Ecosystems and Vegetation Communities in Queensland
Related documentation
- Title
- Regional ecosystem descriptions from https://www.qld.gov.au
- Website
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Regional ecosystem descriptions from https://www.qld.gov.au
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- erosion severity
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- erosion type
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- animal grazing level
- Unitless
- time since fire
- Unitless
- time since roadwork
- Unitless
- time since storm
- Unitless
- fire height
- Unitless
- fire proportion
- Unitless
- storm proportion
- Unitless
- roadwork proportion
- Unitless
- salinity proportion
- Unitless
- stumps count
- Number
- treatment count
- Number
- weed cover
- Percent
- grazing present
- Unitless
- erosion present
- Unitless
- weeds present
- Unitless
- fire present
- Unitless
- storm present
- Unitless
- logging present
- Unitless
- flood present
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- roadwork present
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- feral digging present
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- treatment presence
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- extensive clearing present
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- salinity present
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- geology - stratigraphic map unit
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- lithology type
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- ground cover - green
- Percent
- ground cover - litter
- Percent
- ground cover - rock
- Percent
- ground cover - bare
- Percent
- ground cover - cryptogam
- Percent
- scientific name
- Unitless
- species cover
- Percent
- relative species abundance
- Percent
- landform morphological type
- Unitless
- slope angle
- Degree
- landform situation
- Unitless
- landform pattern
- Unitless
- landform element
- Unitless
- erosional landform pattern
- Unitless
- aspect angle
- Degree
- soil type
- Unitless
- dry soil colour
- Unitless
- soil texture
- Unitless
- crown class
- Unitless
- tree basal area
- square metres per hectare
- crown cover
- Percent
- stem density
- Number per hectare
- vegetation community is mapped to regional ecosystem
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- vegetation community site context
- Unitless
- vegetation community is representative of regional ecosystem
- Unitless
- vegetation community extent
- Unitless
- vegetation community area
- Unitless
- structural formation
- Unitless
- non-remnant vegetation status
- Unitless
- average vegetative height
- Meter
- minimum vegetative height
- Meter
- maximum vegetative height
- Meter
- precipitation annual mean
- Millimetre
- temperature annual mean
- degree Celsius
- maximum temperature
- degree Celsius
- minimum temperature
- degree Celsius
- solar radiation mean
- Megajoule per Square Meter
- stratum type
- Unitless
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- square metres per hectare
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- Meter
- Meter
- Meter
- Millimetre
- degree Celsius
- degree Celsius
- degree Celsius
- Megajoule per Square Meter
- Unitless
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
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
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- These data have been released in the spirit of open scientific collaboration. Data users are encouraged to consider consultation with queensland.herbarium@qld.gov.au to minimize duplication of research. Please send citations and copies of publications that use this data to queensland.herbarium@qld.gov.au , copy esupport@tern.org.au
- 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 /><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. Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting. 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
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots Portal
- OnLine resource
- EcoPlots API
- OnLine resource
- Landscape Data Visualiser
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- QBEIS Methods: <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/191d0612-455b-41a9-98ac-5e10cd984fbd">Disturbance Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/36fcf089-f773-422d-8a37-f87b51c18c0e">Geology Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/c0a56d07-905d-4cc5-b5e2-d0ffd720a27b">Ground Cover Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/50dd475d-20b4-475d-9bf0-94859d1b3309">Landform Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/1e710216-60b6-4af0-ac32-8c6feec243fd">Site Taxon Identification Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/0234ad91-4c8e-4849-842a-e99b9b4f4f2e">Soil Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/d3465997-9408-4816-af98-646af318e6b1">Survey Site Selection and Establishment</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/fb575f33-f9ef-4e1f-8dc7-d1f912e72bdd">Vegetation Community Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/cb7e2952-41e5-4cbd-b352-dd7312510e59">Vegetation Structural Formation Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/corveg-cv/353da57d-5855-441e-a00c-dc702e3331cb">Vegetation Stratification Assessment Methods</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/7aabc55e-22eb-47ba-8fc1-8ce709669090
- 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/7aabc55e-22eb-47ba-8fc1-8ce709669090
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-06-30T00:00:00
- 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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