Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network: Vegetation Floristics at Soil Probe Sites, Dharawal National Park and Dharawal Nature Reserve, Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia, 2018

Type

collection

Title

Alternate Title

Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network: Vegetation Floristics (Soil Probe Sites) Dharawal National Park, 2018

Collection Type

Dataset

Access Privileges

Long Term Ecological Research Network

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

10.25911/5c341125804ab

Metadata Language

English

Data Language

English

Brief Description

This package contains floristics data collected at sites of soil probe surveys in Dharawal National Park in 2018.

The Upland Heath Swamps Plot Network research plots commenced in 1983 and have been revisited in 2004, 2009, 2014 and again in 2018.

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 https://doi.org/10.25911/5c1313b2b2644.

Full Description

Abstract: 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, 2014 and again in 2018. 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 https://doi.org/10.25911/5c1313b2b2644.

Study extent: Surveys were performed at three sites - Swamp C, Probe 0; Swamp A, Probe 0; Swamp A, Probe 2.

Project funding: Between 2012 and 2018 this project was part of, and funded through the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) a facility within the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.

Methods

Number
1
Title
Plot set-up
Description
Hydrological climate variables are monitored within the study area. During 15 June and 6 July 2013, three automatic weather stations were installed across the regional precipitation gradient within the study area.
In addition, three soil probes are placed along local soil moisture gradients in the vicinity of each station record soil moisture, conductivity and temperature.
Instrument
3 automatic weather stations
3 soil probes

Number
2
Title
Floristics
Description
At each probe site a series of 30 contiguous 0.5 x 0.5 metre quadrats were establishedd, in which presence/absence of all vascular plant taxa are recorded (based on whether they were overhanging the quadrats) and tallied to give a frequency out of 30.
Instrument
•Measuring tape
•metre rule
•portable quadrat

File Descriptions

Name
kmle_floristics_soil_probe_sites_2018_p975t1313.csv
Description

caps_no

definition	Census of Australian Plant Species Code
nominal text definition	Numeric code

date

date time format	YYYY-MM-DD
definition	Survey date

frequency

definition	Species frequency values out of 30
ratio number type	whole
ratio standard unit	number

number of records

site

definition	Site (swamp) and probe ID
nominal text definition	Character

species_name

definition	Scientific name
nominal text definition	Character

Contact Email

david.keith@environment.nsw.gov.au
christopher.simpson@unsw.edu.au
k.wilkins@unsw.edu.au
mark.tozer@environment.nsw.gov.au
r.woodward@unsw.edu.au
t.mason@unsw.edu.au
david.keith@unsw.edu.au

Contact Address

Australian Wetlands, Rivers and Landscapes Centre
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
SYDNEY, NSW, 2052
Australia

Contact Phone Number

+61 2 9995 5000
+61 409 159 334
+61 2 9385 8435
+61 2 9585 6496
+61 2 9585 6051
+61 2 9385 8296
+61 2 9385 2111
+61 427 856 498
+61 428 810 214

Principal Investigator

David Keith

Supervisors

David Keith

Collaborators

Tanya Mason
Chris Simpson
Dick Williams
Katy Wilkins
Mark Tozer

Fields of Research

0602 - Ecology

Keywords

GCMD:Earth Science > Biosphere > Vegetation
GCMD:Earth Science > Biosphere > Vegetation > Vegetation Species
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species composition
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species abundance
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Individual plants
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Invasive plants
keyword:Upland heath swamps
keyword:Plant species
Upland Heath Swamps
Dharawal National Park
Vegetation Floristics (Soil Probe Sites)

Type of Research Activity

Strategic basic research

Date Coverage

Date From	Date To
2018-01-10	2018-07-11

Geospatial Location

Location Type	Location Value
Text	Dharawal National Park, Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia
DCMI Box notation conformant with iso 19139	northlimit = -34.2008; southlimit = -34.26344; westlimit = 150.84554; eastLimit = 150.93563

Date of data creation

2018-11-15

Year of data publication

2018

Creator(s) for Citation

Given Name	Surname
David	Keith
Chris	Simpson
Katy	Wilkins
Mark	Tozer
Dick	Williams
Tanya	Mason

Publisher for Citation

Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN), ANU Data Commons, The Australian National University

Related Websites

URL	Title
https://hdl.handle.net/1885/130861	ANU Open Research, Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) collection.

Other Related Identifiers

MorphoId:ltern6.390
PackageId:975

Access Rights

Prior to publication of research utilising this data, the data provider (David Keith) requests consultation.

Access Rights Type

Open

Rights held in and over the data

Creative Commons Licence (CC BY- Attribution) is assigned to this data. Details of the licence can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Licence Type

CC-BY - Attribution (Version 4)

Licence

LTERN Deed: 13
Date of execution: 2014-04-30

Retention Period

Indefinitely

Data Management Plan

Status: Published
Published To:
- Australian National University
- Australian National Data Service
Identifier: anudc:5777