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Poaceae data from TERN repository until 2014

The dataset can be reused for contintental-wide synthesis of the cover of Australian grasses. It consists of high quality, well-described plot-based data extracted from TERN repository on 13/3/2014. The data includes vegetation records for the Poaceae family from the following dataset: ABARES Ground Cover Reference Sites Database, Biological Survey of South Australia - Vegetation Survey, Biological Database of South Australia, Corveg (Queensland), TERN AusPlots Rangelands Survey Program, Biological Survey of the Ravensthorpe Range (Western Australia).The entire content of the portal was initially extracted using the portal's download feature to obtain the full extent of available data for the following all datasets. These data were loaded into a PostgreSQL database. Subsequently, a SQL query was built for each of the cited datasets which produced a flat table containing information about the survey name, site identifier, visit date, coordinates, species, abundance, biomass and/or cover class, filtering on species of the Poaceae family using a genus list obtained from the website of the Atlas of Living Australia ( http://www.ala.org.au/ ).

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2014-05-14
Date (Publication)
2022-02-13
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.4227/05/5372F77350C26
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
This dataset was requested by a data user and has been generated by TERN Eco-informatics for a global C4 grasses project undertaken by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Centre. The title of the global project is "Toward A New Synthesis of the Evolutionary History & Ecology of C4 Grasses" (http://www.nescent.org/science/awards_summary.php?id=152).
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 dataset is derived from the following datasets which are publicly available from portal.aekos.org.au: Ground Cover Reference Sites Database (ABARES), Biological Survey of South Australia - Vegetation Survey, Biological Survey of South Australia - Vegetation Survey, Biological Database of South Australia (Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources), Corveg (Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts)), Rangelands Survey Program (TERN AusPlots), Biological Survey of the Ravensthorpe Range (Department of Parks and Wildlife, Western Australia).
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
80 Meiers Road
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

Description
Australian continent and islands.
N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
1975-11-02 2013-07-09
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • VEGETATION
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Ecology
  • Biogeography and phylogeography
  • Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • field species name
  • Unitless
  • plant cover-abundance
  • Percent
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Percent
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • > 1000 km or > 10 degrees
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Monthly - < Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Species Composition
  • Bioregional Inventory
  • Acacia Forests and Woodlands
  • Acacia Open Woodlands
  • Acacia Shrublands
  • Callitris Forests and Woodlands
  • Casuarina Forests and Woodlands
  • Chenopod Shrublands
  • Samphire Shrublands And Forblands
  • Eucalypt Low Open Forests
  • Eucalypt Open Forests
  • Eucalypt Open Woodlands
  • Eucalypt Tall Open Forests
  • Eucalypt Woodlands
  • Heathlands
  • Hummock Grasslands
  • Low Closed Forests And Tall Closed Shrublands
  • Mallee Open Woodlands And Sparse Mallee Shrublands
  • Mallee Woodlands And Shrublands
  • Melaleuca Forests and Woodlands
  • Other Forests and Woodlands
  • Other Grasslands, Herblands, Sedgelands And Rushlands
  • Other Open Woodlands
  • Other Shrublands
  • Regrowth, Modified Native Vegetation
  • Tropical Eucalypt Woodlands/Grasslands
  • Tussock Grasslands
  • Poaceae

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
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 /><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

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
/attachment/87d6406b-6dbf-48a9-81d6-b42eadbc9ddf/TERN-Poaceae_Mon-Feb-07-04-38-04-UTC-2022.zip

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

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
Data Portal Extraction: The data was extracted via the TERN data portal on 13/3/2014. The entire content of the portal was initially extracted using the portal's download feature to obtain the full extent of available data for the following datasets: ABARES Ground Cover Reference Sites Database, Biological Survey of South Australia - Vegetation Survey, Biological Database of South Australia, Corveg (Queensland), TERN AusPlots Rangelands Survey Program, Biological Survey of the Ravensthorpe Range (Western Australia). This data was loaded into a PostgreSQL database. Subsequently, SQL queries (see poaceaeQueriesForSharedSubmission.zip attached to this dataset) were built for each of the cited datasets which produces a flat table containing information about the survey name, site identifier, visit date, coordinates, species, abundance and/or cover, filtering on species of the Poaceae family using a genus list obtained from the website of the Atlas of Living Australia (http://www.ala.org.au/, see poaceaeGenera.txt attached to this dataset).

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/87d6406b-6dbf-48a9-81d6-b42eadbc9ddf

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/87d6406b-6dbf-48a9-81d6-b42eadbc9ddf

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2014-05-14T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:58:59.867942+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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Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Biogeography and phylogeography Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
VEGETATION

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