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Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network: Plot-based Fire Severity Monitoring, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, 1994–2011

The Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Network was established in 1994 with the primary aim of training management staff and assisting with the development of adaptive approaches to conservation-based fire management in regional savanna systems. The full program assesses fire regimes and their impacts on plant and vertebrate biodiversity components. The program comprises two complementary elements - mapping of fire histories based upon interpretation of satellite imagery, and assessment of vegetation and faunal components at a large series of permanent monitoring plots located across respective parks. The vegetation data comprises quantitative assessment of all species in three major strata within 800 square metre plots. Faunal assessments are undertaken in the immediate vicinity of respective plots. The occurrence of fire is assessed bi-annually on-ground and satellite derived fire mapping is conducted three times a year. A full inventory of vegetation is undertaken every five years. Terrestrial vertebrates are monitored systematically but on an irregular and less frequent basis.


This dataset comprises on-ground assessment of fire occurrence and severity conducted at 132 plots located in Kakadu National Park.


Fire occurrence is recorded based on on-ground plot visits, and from aerial ground-truthing assessments of the park’s satellite-based fire mapping programme. Fire severity scores (ordinal values 1–3) are assessed from field photographs. Fire occurrence and severity is assessed in three seasonal periods: early dry season (e), late dry season (L) and wet season (w) for each year.


*Note: Plots are located within a National Park and physical access to the plots is restricted.

**Note: This package used to be called "Monitoring the impacts of fire regimes on vegetation in northern Australia: Plot based fire severity monitoring data, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory Australia, 1994–2011", but was relabelled for consistency.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2013-11-27
Date (Revision)
2013-11-27
Edition
23

Publisher

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

Author

Charles Darwin University - Russell-Smith, Jeremy (Adjunct Research Fellow)
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
Australia

Author

Kakadu National Park
Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu Highway, Jabiru, Northern Territory, 0886, Australia
Jabiru
Northern Territory
0886
Australia

Stakeholder

Darwin Centre for Bushfires Research
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
Australia

Stakeholder

Kakadu National Park
Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu Highway, Jabiru, Northern Territory, 0886, Australia
Jabiru
Northern Territory
0886
Australia

Point of contact

Kakadu National Park
Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu Highway, Jabiru, Northern Territory, 0886, Australia
Jabiru
Northern Territory
0886
Australia
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Fire
  • Fire
  • Kakadu
  • Parks
  • Savanna
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Environmental management
  • Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
  • FIRE ECOLOGY
  • SAVANNAS

Extent

Description
Kakadu National Park is situated 171 km southeast of Darwin, covering an area of nearly 20,000 km2.
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Temporal extent

Time period
1994-01-01 2011-01-01

Resource constraints

Use limitation
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Alternate title
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Edition
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Website
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Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Prior to publication of research utilising this data - the data provider (Jeremy Russell-Smith) must be consulted and provide consent.

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.86/html

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/f39c8bc4-1753-51cb-9f72-e7710e9d1968

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/f39c8bc4-1753-51cb-9f72-e7710e9d1968

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2013-11-27T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2017-10-23T00:00:00

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
Climate change impacts and adaptation Ecology Environmental management
GCMD Science Keywords
FIRE ECOLOGY SAVANNAS

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