The Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network Vegetation Floristics data package for Royal National Park contains information on the herbaceous species present in permanent plots arranged in eight 30 metre transects. These sites were originally established in 1990, and then sampled annually until 1994, and subsequently in 1999, 2001, 2007, 2011 and 2014. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/upland-health-swamps. **Note: this data package is associated with the following publications: [1] Letten, A.D., Keith, D.A. & Tozer, M.G. (2014) Phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity does not increase during temporal heathland succession. Proc. Roy. Soc. B., 281, 20142102–. [2] Letten, A. D., Keith, D. A., Tozer, M. G., Hui, F. K.C. (2015) Fine-scale hydrological niche differentiation through the lens of multi-species co-occurrence models. Journal of Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12428 [3] Keith, D. A. and Bradstock, R. A. (1994). Fire and competition in Australian heath: a conceptual model and field investigations. Journal of Vegetation Science 5, 347-354. [4] Keith, D. A. (1995a). Mosaics in Sydney heathland vegetation: the roles of fire, competition and soils. CALMScience Supplement 4, 199-206. [5] Keith, D. A., Lindenmayer, D. B., Lowe, A.,Russell-Smith, J.,Barrett, S.,Enright N. J., Fox, B. J.,Guerin, G.,Paton, D. C., Tozer, M. G. and Yates, C. J. (2014). Heathlands. In: Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction. Lindenmayer, D., Burns, E., Thurgate, N., and Lowe, A. Editors, pp215-285. CSIRO, Melbourne.

This package contains floristics data collected at sites of soil probe surveys in Dharawal National Park in 2018. The presence or absence of a variety of plant species was noted across a series of quadrats and tallied to produce frequency scores for each species. The Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network research plots commenced in 1983 and have been revisited in 2004, 2009 and again in 2014. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/upland-heath-swamps.

These data represent the entire collection of vegetation floristics and structure data for the Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network. This package contains information on the vegetation species present in 54 established swamp monitoring sites in upland swamps scattered throughout the study area (Keith and Myerscough 1993). The Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network research plots commenced in 1983 and have been revisited in 2004, 2009 and again in 2014. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/upland-heath-swamps.

The Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network Vegetation (Structure and Floristics) Data Package contains information on the vegetation structure and species present in 54 established swamp monitoring sites in upland swamps scattered throughout the study area (Keith and Myerscough 1993). Each site is sampled in nine combinations of moisture-by-vegetation structure strata. The Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network research plots commenced in 1983 and have been revisited in 2004, 2009 and again in 2014. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/upland-heath-swamps.