TERN Ecosystem Process Site Vegetation Decomposition Tea Bag Index Data 2016 - 2017
Plant material decomposition in soil was investigated using two types of tea bags (Green and Rooibos) buried to 8 cm for 80-90 days across seven TERN Ecosystem Process monitoring sites between 2016 - 2017. The sites included: Great Western Woodlands, Robson Creek Rainforest, Samford Peri-Urban, Cumberland Plain, Cape Tribulation, Warra Tall Eucalypt and Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt sites. Weight loss of tea bags was determined and contextual data collected.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-09-18
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-05-03
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-03
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Co-author
Queensland University of Technology - Grace, Peter (Professor of Global Change and Theme Leader)
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
Co-author
Queensland University of Technology - Rowlings, David ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
Author
James Cook University - Karan, Mirko (SuperSite Coordinator)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Prober, Suzanne Mary (Senior Principal Research Scientist)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Co-author
James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Co-author
Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias (Associate Professor)
Bourke Street, Richmond, 2753, New South Wales, Australia
Richmond
New South Wales
2753
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Stol, Jacqui (Senior Experimental Scientist, Adaptive Ecosystem Management Unit 1)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Co-author
University of Tasmania - Wardlaw, Tim (Dr)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- This experiment aligns with, and contributed to a citizen science program (www.teatime4science.org) looking at decomposition rates around the world.
- 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.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
James Cook University - Karan, Mirko (SuperSite Coordinator)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Sites include: Great Western Woodlands, Robson Creek Rainforest, Samford Peri-Urban, Cumberland Plain, Cape Tribulation, Warra Tall Eucalypt and Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt sites.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2016-09-18 2017-04-11
- Title
- Keuskamp, J.A., Dingemans, B.J.J., Lehtinen, T., Sarneel, J.M. and Hefting, M.M. (2013), Tea Bag Index: a novel approach to collect uniform decomposition data across ecosystems. Methods Ecol Evol, 4: 1070-1075. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12097
- Website
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Keuskamp, J.A., Dingemans, B.J.J., Lehtinen, T., Sarneel, J.M. and Hefting, M.M. (2013), Tea Bag Index: a novel approach to collect uniform decomposition data across ecosystems. Methods Ecol Evol, 4: 1070-1075. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12097
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
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- Samford Peri-urban
- Samford Peri-urban, core1ha
- Robson Creek Rainforest
- Robson Creek, core1ha
- Warra Tall Eucalypt
- Warra Tall Eucalypt, core1ha
- Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation
- Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation, core1ha
- Cumberland Plain
- Cumberland Plain, core1ha
- Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt
- Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt, core1ha
- Great Western Woodlands
- Great Western Woodlands, core1ha
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Tea Bag Index
- Plant decomposition
- Great Western Woodlands
- Samford Peri-Urban
- Cape Tribulation
- Robson Creek Rainforest
- Warra Tall Eucalypt
- Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt
- Cumberland Plain
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/
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- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
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- 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
- 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
- Please note: This data has been migrated “as is” from TERN’s SuperSite data portal. Minimal quality assessment has been applied to this data. Please contact the dataset author/s for queries regarding the data.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
- OnLine resource
- TERN_sites_vegetation_decomposition_tea_bag_index_data
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- This tea bag index study was conducted using the protocol from the Tea Time 4 Science project (http://www.teatime4science.org/).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Tea Time for Science Protocol
- Website
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http://www.teatime4science.org/wp-content/uploads/scientific.pdf
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/fafbc5e9-965c-4227-a755-9c55cce3d69b
- 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/fafbc5e9-965c-4227-a755-9c55cce3d69b
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-09T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-05-03T00:00:00
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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