Nanangroe Plantation Plot Network: Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates, Southwest Slopes, NSW, Australia

Title Plot selection

Number 1

Instrument

Description The study area is 10–20 km south-east of the town of Jugiong in southern NSW (Fig. 1), and it is bounded by the Murrumbidgee River to the north and the Bungongo State Forest, 5–8 km to the south and east. Annual precipitation across the study area ranges from 775 to 900 mm and is uniformly distributed throughout the year. Summers are typically hot. The name of the field study is taken from the Nanangroe Station — a large property where a major new radiata pine plantation has recently been established. The study region was chosen because:
(1) recent large-scale changes in landscape cover have occurred due to the establishment of new radiata pine plantations at four former grazing properties newly acquired by State Forests of NSW;
(2) long-term access to semi-cleared grazing properties which support numerous woodland remnants and which are located adjacent to the new Radiata Pine plantation has been obtained;
(3) the region contains a wide range of woodland vegetation types (see later). This will allow us to quantify the differences in fauna between different types of woodland. This makes our natural experiment different from many other studies that have focussed on one or only a few woodland types (e.g. Er, 1995; Prober and Thiele, 1995; Haddeon and Westbrooke, 1996; Arnold and Weeldenberg, 1998); and
(4) the woodland remnants in the study region vary in their physical condition, location (hilltops versus midslopes, etc.), and many other attributes (Table 1) making it possible to sample a broad range of environmental conditions and, in turn, model the relationships between species occurrence and these covariates.
The original vegetation cover in the study area included a suite of woodland vegetation types, particularly those dominated by yellow box (Eucalyptus melliodora), red box (Eucalyptus polyanthemos), white box (Eucalyptus albens), red stringybark (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha), and Blakely’s red gum (Eucalyptus blakelyi). Much of the original cover has been cleared over the past 150 years, primarily for domestic stock grazing (Bungongo Centenary Committee, 1986). Only fragmented patches now remain of what was formerly continuous woodland vegetation cover.
Clearing operations to plant radiata pine in the areas surrounding the woodland remnants involves the felling and burning of isolated paddock trees and other shrubby vegetation. The cleared land is then deep-ripped with a bulldozer to create mounds of earth in which radiata pine seedlings are planted. These are standard plantation establishment procedures employed widely throughout south-eastern Australia.
[Lindenmayer, et al. 2001, A prospective longitudinal study of landscape matrix effects on fauna in woodland remnants: experimental design and baseline data. Biological Conservation 101: 157–169 [159–160]

Title Plot setup

Number 2

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Description The principle objective of the Nanangroe study is to directly quantify changes in woodland vertebrate assemblages and their relationships with habitat variables when the surrounding landscape matrix is converted from a semi-cleared grazing landscape to a landscape dominated by an exotic softwood plantation. Thus, the initial phase of the experiment is the establishment of a set of foundation sites. This involved characterizng all patches of remnant native vegetation on areas designated for pine plantation. Attributes of the 70 remnants included patch size (ha), dominant tree species, age and condition of overstorey trees, understorey condition, shape class, topographic position, and the density of trees within the patch. Patch sizes varied from 0.5 to 9.7 ha. Four broad vegetation classes were recognizd as part of field surveys. The species in these groups were:
(1) red box and red stringybark (co-dominant), apple box (Eucalyptus bridgesiana), long-leaf box (Eucalyptus goniocalyx), and broad-leaved peppermint (Eucalyptus dives);
(2) swamp gum (Eucalyptus camphora);
(3) yellow box, white box, red stringybark (co-dominant) and Blakely’s red gum; and
(4) river oak (Casuarina cunninghamiana).
[Lindenmayer, et al. 2001, A prospective longitudinal study of landscape matrix effects on fauna in woodland remnants: experimental design and baseline data. Biological Conservation 101: 157–169 [160]

Name lngr_plot_details_spatial_coordinates_p150t567.csv

Description

avg_slope_degrees	definition Average degree of the slope of the landscape based on the slope at three points along the transect (0 m, 100 m, and 200 m) ratio number type real ratio standard unit degree
comments	definition Comments nominal text definition Character
context	definition Plot context nominal enumeration codes AGR Agricurtural land PIN Pine forest plantation PPR Private property reserve SFR State forest reserve
description	Spatial data for Nanangroe Plantation Plot Network's plots
easting_0m	definition Latitude coordinate at 0 m point on the transect ratio number type real ratio standard unit degree
easting_100m	definition Latitude coordinate at 100 m point on the transect ratio number type real ratio standard unit degree
easting_200m	definition Latitude coordinate at 200 m point on the transect ratio number type real ratio standard unit degree
elevation	definition Elevation above sea level ratio number type real ratio standard unit meter
id	definition Record identifier ordinal text definition ID number
landscape_position	definition Position of plot within landscape nominal text definition Character
northing_0m	definition Longitude coordinate at 0 m point on the transect ratio number type real ratio standard unit degree
northing_100m	definition Longitude coordinate at 100 m point on the transect ratio number type real ratio standard unit degree
northing_200m	definition Longitude coordinate at 200 m point on the transect ratio number type real ratio standard unit degree
number of records	143
property_code	definition Property identifier nominal text definition Character
property_name	definition Property name nominal text definition Character
shape_of_remnant	definition Shape of remnant vegetation nominal enumeration codes circular Circular elongated Elongated oval Oval square Square
site_code	definition Location and site number nominal text definition Character
size_class	definition Relative size of remnant vegetation patch nominal enumeration codes large Large medium Medium small Small very small Very small
size_ha	definition Size of plot ratio number type real ratio standard unit hectare
topography	definition Topography of plot nominal text definition Character

Name lngr_plot_details_baseline_attributes_p150t1113.csv

Description

avg_edge_distance_m	definition Average degree of the slope of the landscape based on three the slope at points at 0 m, 100 m, and 200 m along the transect. interval number type natural interval standard unit degree
description	Baseline attributes for Nanangroe Plantation sites
dist_to_nearest_remnant_m	definition Distance to nearest remnant native vegetation ratio number type whole ratio standard unit meter
dist_to_water_m	definition Distance to closest water ratio number type whole ratio standard unit meter
disturbance	definition Disturbance score avereaged from 3 points along the transect (0 m, 100 m, and 200 m). The score is based on the number of disturbance categories evident at each point. The categories are: Logging, Fire, Livestock grazing, Mining, Other ratio number type real ratio standard unit number
forest_type	definition Forest type nominal enumeration codes 103 Apple Box 104 Long leaved Box 111 Peppermint 124 Red Stringybark 143 Swamp Gum 172 Yellow Box associated with Blakely's Red Gum 173 Yellow Box - White Box co-dominant with Blakely's 175 White Box dominant. Blakely's, Yellow Box + Kurrajong 176 White Box - Stringybark co-dominant 177 Red Gum - Stringybark co-dominant 178 Blakely's dominates 211 River Oak 216 Improved Pasture and Cropland 217 Farm Plantings 218 Forestry Plantations 99 Red Box
id	definition Record identifier nominal text definition ID number
league_type	definition League type nominal enumeration codes 132 Snow Gum 170 Yellow-White-Red Gum 211 Non-Eucalypt 216 Non Forest and Artificial 94 Scribbly Gum-Stringybark-Silvertop Ash
no_sides_pine	definition Score which is indicative of the number of sides to the remnant vegetation that are adjacent to pine plantations interval number type whole interval standard unit number
number of records	143
planting_year	date time format YYYY definition Year pine plantation trees were planted
site_code	definition Location and site number nominal text definition Character
veg_type	definition Vegetation type nominal enumeration codes 1 Non Forest and Artificial 2 White Box Dom. 3 Apple/Long leaved Box 4 Swamp Gum/Oak 5 Blakelys/Yellow Box 6 Misc.

Location Value Nanangroe Plantation, Southwest Slopes of NSW west of Lake Burrinjuck and includes four exotic Pine Plantations (Nanangroe, Cotway, East Bungongo and Bungongo), Australia

Location Type text

Location Value northlimit = -34.912979; southlimit = -35.069528; westlimit = 148.313807; eastLimit = 148.534563

Location Type iso19139dcmiBox

Surname Lindenmayer

Given Name David

Identifier Value 10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00061-1

Publication Reference (Lindenmayer, DB, Cunningham, RB, MacGregor, C, Tribolet, C & Donnelly, CF 2001, ‘A prospective longitudinal study of landscape matrix effects on fauna in woodland remnants: experimental design and baseline data’, Biological Conservation, vol 101 no 2, p. 160).

Publication Title A prospective longitudinal study of landscape matrix effects on fauna in woodland remnants: experimental design and baseline data.

Identifier Type doi

Title ANU Open Research. Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) collection.

URL https://hdl.handle.net/1885/130861