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Victorian Alpine Plot Network (ATEX): Plot Microclimate Data, Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia, 2004–2013

The objective of the Australian Tundra Experiment is to assess the likely response of vegetation and invertebrates to temperature increases attained through passive warming.


The Australian Tundra Experiment follows the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) protocol (Molau & Mølgaard 1996, Jarrad et al. 2009) which focuses on the growth and phenological responses of cold adapted vascular plant species to environmental change, specifically, to an increase in summer (growing season) temperatures. In addition to monitoring vegetation responses, the experimental warming chambers were used to monitor the response of invertebrates to warming. Warming is achieved using hexagonal fibreglass open-top warming chambers (OTCs).


The OTCs were set up in December 2003 at 4 sites within a 2 × 4.5 km area of the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia, known as Rocky Knobs (36.90ºS, 147.27ºE). Two of the sites were established on vegetation that had been recently burnt by the 2003 bushfires.


The sites are at approximately 1700 m above sea level and generally have snow cover of variable depth for 3 to 4 months each year (June-July to September-October).


At each site, permanent plots of 1m2 were selected to include as many of the common vascular grassland species as possible. Treatments were then allocated at random for a total of 40 control and 40 warmed plots. This dataset contains microclimate data for a subset of plots from 6-06-2004 to 18-04-2013.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2013-09-30
Date (Revision)
2013-09-30
Edition
23

Publisher

Australian National University
10 East Road, Acton, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Acton
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Author

University of Melbourne - Hoffmann, Ary (Plot Leader)
Grattan Street, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia
Parkville
Victoria
3010
Australia

Author

Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, La Trobe University
133 McKoy Street, West Wodonga, 3690, Victoria, Australia
West Wodonga
Victoria
3690
Australia

Stakeholder

University of Melbourne - Hoffmann, Ary (Plot Leader)
Grattan Street, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia
Parkville
Victoria
3010
Australia

Stakeholder

University of Melbourne - Camac, James
Grattan Street, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia
Parkville
Victoria
3010
Australia

Stakeholder

Department of Land Resource Management (2012-2016), Northern Territory Government - Wahren, Henrik
25 Chung Wah Terrace, Palmerston, Northern Territory, 0830, Australia
Palmerston
Northern Territory
0830
Australia

Collaborator

Department of Land Resource Management (2012-2016), Northern Territory Government - Wahren, Henrik
25 Chung Wah Terrace, Palmerston, Northern Territory, 0830, Australia
Palmerston
Northern Territory
0830
Australia

Point of contact

Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, La Trobe University
133 McKoy Street, West Wodonga, 3690, Victoria, Australia
West Wodonga
Victoria
3690
Australia
Keywords (Discipline)
  • On plot weather
  • Climate change
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE

Extent

Description
Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia
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Temporal extent

Time period
2004-06-06 2013-01-01

Resource constraints

Use limitation
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Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Spatial coordinates for site names are available at https://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern6.244/html (Victorian Alpine Plot Network (ATEX): Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates, South-east Highlands, Australia).

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Australian National University
10 East Road, Acton, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Acton
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Distribution format
OnLine resource
http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/datalibrarian.67/html

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/b9ba3b08-6f19-514f-8233-719fd4138513

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID - Long Term Ecological Research Network

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/b9ba3b08-6f19-514f-8233-719fd4138513

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2013-09-30T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2018-11-15T00:00:00

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
Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE

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