Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network: Site-level Plot Data Collected During an Assessment of the Ecological and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: a Long-term Experimental Study, 2007-2014
Abstract: This vegetation data package comprises site level plot data collected as part of a controlled and replicated experimental study at Bherwerre Peninsula in Booderee National Park, which is located in the Jervis Bay Territory, Australia. The aim of the study is to estimate the effects of the different sub-treatments of Bitou Bush control methods on the abundance and recruitment of both the target species and native plant species. Sites were stratified into three broad groups, namely sites with no Bitou Bush; sites with Bitou Bush where a control regime of spray-fire-spray and spray-fire-fire was applied and combinations of particular treatments where only part of the treatment regime was applied. Data were collected from four 1 m x 1 m permanent survey plots situated on the 80 m transect on each of our 33 sites. Each site was surveyed on 14 occasions, at different stages of the treatment sequence, so comparisons of no treatment, a partial sequence of treatments, and a full sequence can be made from observations at the same site, resulting in 356 site-survey combinations in total.
A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network's full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c3c070a5ee94
These data were published as a component of the paper Lindenmayer et al., 2015. A Long-Term Experimental Case Study of the Ecological Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: Bitou Bush Control in Booderee National Park in Eastern Australia. PLOS ONE, http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128482
Sampling method: The study design accounted for several practical realities associated with the control of a weed of national significance in a reserve. First, under the management plan for BNP, all areas infested with Bitou Bush must be subject to some kind of treatment (even if the recommended protocol cannot be fully implemented; see below). This precluded the establishment of control sites where Bitou Bush occurred but remained untreated. However, we included some sites where Bitou Bush had not occurred. These sites were used as controls in assessing the effect of the treatments on native vegetation. Second, the large spatial extent of Bitou Bush infestation on Bherwerre Peninsula meant that it is not possible to spray all affected areas at the same time; even if this was possible, there were insufficient resources to burn all treated areas simultaneously. Third, logistical and human safety issues mean that only some areas received the complete spray-fire-spray regime and others were subject to only parts of it or different combinations of particular treatments. Therefore, all of the sites in our experiment had different treatment histories. Fourth, the recommended spray-fire-spray treatment regime requires several years to be fully implemented at a given site. This meant that because a given site is surveyed many times throughout the duration of the study, it could appear under different treatment sequences according to the progression of particular treatments over time. Fifth, it was not possible to prevent some kinds of other disturbances and in late 2007, a low to moderate severity wildfire burned part of our study area resulting in some sites being burned once by prescribed fire (post-Bitou Bush treatment) and once by a wildfire.
Study extent: The effects of different sub-treatments of Bitou Bush control methods on the abundance and recruitment of both the target species and on native plant species are measured. Sites were stratified into three broad groups, namely sites with no Bitou Bush; sites with Bitou Bush where the complete control regime of spray-fire-spray was applied; and sites with Bitou Bush where only part of the treatment regime was applied. Data were collected from four 1 m x 1 m permanent survey plots situated on the 80 m transect on each of our 33 sites, and each site was surveyed on up to 14 occasions, giving 356 site-survey combinations in total. Plot-level mean values are provided for a number of variables. In one observation (1-51), plants were only counted for a subset of the four plots. Those values are denoted as an "*".
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.
Type
collection
Title
Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network: Site-level Plot Data Collected During an Assessment of the Ecological and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: a Long-term Experimental Study, 2007-2014
Alternate Title
Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network: Ecological And Cost Effectiveness Of Invasive Plant Management In Achieving Conservation Goals, 2007–2014
Collection Type
Dataset
Access Privileges
Long Term Ecological Research Network
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
10.25911/5c4008583301d
Metadata Language
English
Data Language
English
Brief Description
These data were published as a component of the paper Lindenmayer et al., 2015. A Long-Term Experimental Case Study of the Ecological Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: Bitou Bush Control in Booderee National Park in Eastern Australia. PLOS ONE, http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128482
A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network's full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c3c070a5ee94
Full Description
Abstract: This vegetation data package comprises site level plot data collected as part of a controlled and replicated experimental study at Bherwerre Peninsula in Booderee National Park, which is located in the Jervis Bay Territory, Australia. The aim of the study is to estimate the effects of the different sub-treatments of Bitou Bush control methods on the abundance and recruitment of both the target species and native plant species. Sites were stratified into three broad groups, namely sites with no Bitou Bush; sites with Bitou Bush where a control regime of spray-fire-spray and spray-fire-fire was applied and combinations of particular treatments where only part of the treatment regime was applied. Data were collected from four 1 m x 1 m permanent survey plots situated on the 80 m transect on each of our 33 sites. Each site was surveyed on 14 occasions, at different stages of the treatment sequence, so comparisons of no treatment, a partial sequence of treatments, and a full sequence can be made from observations at the same site, resulting in 356 site-survey combinations in total.
A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network's full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c3c070a5ee94
These data were published as a component of the paper Lindenmayer et al., 2015. A Long-Term Experimental Case Study of the Ecological Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: Bitou Bush Control in Booderee National Park in Eastern Australia. PLOS ONE, http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128482
Sampling method: The study design accounted for several practical realities associated with the control of a weed of national significance in a reserve. First, under the management plan for BNP, all areas infested with Bitou Bush must be subject to some kind of treatment (even if the recommended protocol cannot be fully implemented; see below). This precluded the establishment of control sites where Bitou Bush occurred but remained untreated. However, we included some sites where Bitou Bush had not occurred. These sites were used as controls in assessing the effect of the treatments on native vegetation. Second, the large spatial extent of Bitou Bush infestation on Bherwerre Peninsula meant that it is not possible to spray all affected areas at the same time; even if this was possible, there were insufficient resources to burn all treated areas simultaneously. Third, logistical and human safety issues mean that only some areas received the complete spray-fire-spray regime and others were subject to only parts of it or different combinations of particular treatments. Therefore, all of the sites in our experiment had different treatment histories. Fourth, the recommended spray-fire-spray treatment regime requires several years to be fully implemented at a given site. This meant that because a given site is surveyed many times throughout the duration of the study, it could appear under different treatment sequences according to the progression of particular treatments over time. Fifth, it was not possible to prevent some kinds of other disturbances and in late 2007, a low to moderate severity wildfire burned part of our study area resulting in some sites being burned once by prescribed fire (post-Bitou Bush treatment) and once by a wildfire.
Study extent: The effects of different sub-treatments of Bitou Bush control methods on the abundance and recruitment of both the target species and on native plant species are measured. Sites were stratified into three broad groups, namely sites with no Bitou Bush; sites with Bitou Bush where the complete control regime of spray-fire-spray was applied; and sites with Bitou Bush where only part of the treatment regime was applied. Data were collected from four 1 m x 1 m permanent survey plots situated on the 80 m transect on each of our 33 sites, and each site was surveyed on up to 14 occasions, giving 356 site-survey combinations in total. Plot-level mean values are provided for a number of variables. In one observation (1-51), plants were only counted for a subset of the four plots. Those values are denoted as an "*".
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
Plot setup
1
Not specified
Data were collected from four 1 m x 1 m permanent survey plots situated on the 80 m transect on each of our 34 sites. Plots on each transect were set at least 20 m apart. At each plot, a 1m x 1m frame was placed over the vegetation.
Treatment
2
Not specified
The full treatment regime for the control of Bitou Bush in BNP is a combination of sequential sub-treatments. A key sub-treatment is spraying of Ultra Low Volume (ULV) glyphosate either aerially by helicopter or on the ground. The concentration of glyphosate varies by method of application, due to the size of droplets and the coverage provided by the applicator. Aerial spraying uses a concentration of 15% glyphosate, the splatter method from a hose connected to a tank on a 4WD vehicle uses 10% glyphosate, and the spot-spray method from a knapsack uses 5% glyphosate. Spraying takes place in winter (when native plants are relatively metabolically inactive but Bitou Bush remains metabolically active; Toth, Milham & Nazer 1993). After the first application of herbicide, treated Bitou Bush plants cure for >1 year before being burned in a prescribed fire. The fire triggers germination of Bitou Bush seed in the soil and a year later, a follow-up spray of ULV glyphosate kills fire-triggered seedlings. Prescribed fires are applied to 15-85 ha compartment units of treated vegetation in any given year.
Data collection
3
Not specified
Percentage cover measurements were collected for live Bitou Bush, dead Bitou Bush, all native vegetation, crown cover (by observation above the plot to an area of approximately 10 m x 10 m). In addition, we completed counts of the number of individual live Bitou Bush plants, dead Bitou Bush plants, other exotic plant species, and native plant species. We also derived a list of species in each 1 m x 1 m survey plot, from which we generated data for the number of exotic and native plant species. A single observer completed all vegetation surveys four times annually from 2007 to 2013.
File Descriptions
ljbb_bitou_bush_paper_p73t214_varying_site_details.csv
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ljbb_bitou_bush_paper_p73t214_mean_species_counts.csv
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Contact Email
david.lindenmayer@anu.edu.au
Contact Address
Fenner School of Environment & Society
ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment
Frank Fenner Building 141
Linnaeus Way
CANBERRA, ACT, 0200
Australia
Contact Phone Number
+61 2 612 50654;
+61 427 770 593
Contact Fax Number
+61 2 6125 0746
Principal Investigator
David Lindenmayer
Supervisors
David Lindenmayer
Collaborators
Australian Government Parks Australia;
Christopher MacGregor;
Australian Government Department of Defence;
Martin Fortescue;
Nick Dexter;
Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council
Fields of Research
0602 - Ecology
Keywords
GCMD:Biological Classification>Plants;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Vegetation structure;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species composition;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species abundance;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Individual plants;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Fire;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Invasive plants;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Restoration;
Jervis Bay Booderee National Park;
Ecological And Cost Effectiveness Of Invasive Plant Management In Achieving Conservation Goals
Type of Research Activity
Strategic basic research
Date Coverage
2014-03-03
2007-05-14
Geospatial Location
Bherwerre Peninsula, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia
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Date of data creation
2015-06-02
Year of data publication
2015
Creator(s) for Citation
Lindenmayer
David
Publisher for Citation
Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN), ANU Data Commons, The Australian National University
Publications
10.1371/journal.pone.0128482
Lindenmayer et al., 2015. A Long-Term Experimental Case Study of the Ecological Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: Bitou Bush Control in Booderee National Park in Eastern Australia. PLOS ONE, http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128482
A Long-Term Experimental Case Study of the Ecological Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: Bitou Bush Control in Booderee National Park in Eastern Australia.
doi
Related Websites
ANU Open Research. Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) collection.
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/130861
Other Related Identifiers
MorphoId:ltern2.291;
PackageId:591
Access Rights
Access and use subject to negotiation upon request to data provider (Professor David Lindenmayer)
Access Rights Type
Restricted
Rights held in and over the data
AusGoal Restrictive Licence - This licence has been developed specifically for material that may contain personal or other confidential information. It may also be used for other reasons, including material to be licenced under some form of limiting or restrictive condition
Licence Type
AusGoalRestrictive - AusGoal Restrictive Licence
Licence
LTERN Deed: 40
Date of execution: 2014-04-29
Retention Period
Indefinitely
Data Management Plan
No
Status: Published
Published to:
Published to:
- Australian National University
- Australian National Data Service
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