Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Burramys Population Surveys): Burramys Trapping Data, South-east Highlands, Australia, 1982-2017
Abstract: This package represents all data from Burramys trapping surveys within the Alpine Long Term Monitoring - Burramys Population Surveys project. The surveys began in 1982, and the most recent addition is from 2017.
This data package contains data collected at a sub-set of the 481 long term monitoring plots which have been established in Australian Alps and in Tasmania. The sampling regime within the Victorian Network generally consists of multiple randomly positioned transects within sites, (rather than ‘plots’ sensu stricto), with each site, and/or transect geo-located. Point quadrats are taken at fixed intervals along each transect. The number of transects within sites, and sampling frequency varies from annual to decadal, depending on site and purpose. This general array of sampling transects, point quadrats along transects and floristic quadrats is consistent between grassland and snowpatch monitoring sites, although the number of transects and floristic quadrats needed to detect change in key variables (vegetation cover, bare ground, etc) at each site varies over time. There are also long-term monitoring sites in wetlands.
The Victorian Alpine Plot Network research plots are revisited on a 2-10 years basis.
A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c11c3d283b0e.
Study extent: These data are from the longest annually monitored Mountain Pygmy Possum site (site 100), there are other data from other sites that is collected opportunistically and with less rigour as this site. As such many of the data categories listed only have one entry relating to site 100 at Hotham also called Mt Higginbotham West 100. Many of the categories won’t apply to site 100 as they relate to data being collected from Mt Buller as part of a recovery and genetic rescue program being implemented there.
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
Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Burramys Population Surveys): Burramys Trapping Data, South-east Highlands, Australia, 1982-2017
Alternate Title
Victorian Alpine Plot Network: Burramys Trapping Data Burramys Population Survey, 1982-2017
Collection Type
Dataset
Access Privileges
Long Term Ecological Research Network
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
10.25911/5c3fede0713f6
Metadata Language
English
Data Language
English
Brief Description
This package represents all data from Burramys trapping surveys within the Alpine Long Term Monitoring - Burramys Population Surveys project. The surveys began in 1982, and the most recent addition is from 2017.
A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c11c3d283b0e.
Full Description
Abstract: This package represents all data from Burramys trapping surveys within the Alpine Long Term Monitoring - Burramys Population Surveys project. The surveys began in 1982, and the most recent addition is from 2017.
This data package contains data collected at a sub-set of the 481 long term monitoring plots which have been established in Australian Alps and in Tasmania. The sampling regime within the Victorian Network generally consists of multiple randomly positioned transects within sites, (rather than ‘plots’ sensu stricto), with each site, and/or transect geo-located. Point quadrats are taken at fixed intervals along each transect. The number of transects within sites, and sampling frequency varies from annual to decadal, depending on site and purpose. This general array of sampling transects, point quadrats along transects and floristic quadrats is consistent between grassland and snowpatch monitoring sites, although the number of transects and floristic quadrats needed to detect change in key variables (vegetation cover, bare ground, etc) at each site varies over time. There are also long-term monitoring sites in wetlands.
The Victorian Alpine Plot Network research plots are revisited on a 2-10 years basis.
A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c11c3d283b0e.
Study extent: These data are from the longest annually monitored Mountain Pygmy Possum site (site 100), there are other data from other sites that is collected opportunistically and with less rigour as this site. As such many of the data categories listed only have one entry relating to site 100 at Hotham also called Mt Higginbotham West 100. Many of the categories won’t apply to site 100 as they relate to data being collected from Mt Buller as part of a recovery and genetic rescue program being implemented there.
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 set-up
1
Elliot traps
Systematic surveys for Burramys parvus commenced in Victoria in 1982, and the network of trapping sites has expanded since then. The standard trapping grid (0.25 ha), as described by Mansergh(1984) has been used throughout: 3 x 100 m lines 12.5 m apart with Elliot traps placed 5 m apart (= 60 traps) x 3 days = 180 trap-nights per standard visit. This standard site could be expanded spatially (more lines) or temporally (up to 5 days). More than 90 trapping sites have been established across the Victorian Alps and most have been visited more than once.
There have been three main locations where sites have been established:
Mt Hotham surrounds: Mt Higginbotham (4 sites, annually since 1982, >15 sites with > 3 visits); Mt Loch (3 sites visited 7 times since 1983); Mt Little Higginbotham (3 sites visited 6 times since 2004).
Bogong High Plains and surrounds: (Mt McKay annually/ bi-annually since 1995); Timms Spur (7 surveys since 1992), Bundarra scree (> 2 sites with 10 visits since 1984); Pretty Valley and Falls Creek surrounds (> 10 sites with at least 3 visits; see Heinze et al. (2004)).
Mt Buller: (4 sites visited annually since 1996; 7 sites with at least 3 visits), sampling times include both breeding and non-breeding seasons.
There are other so-called ‘non-successful areas’ (e.g. Mt Wombargo, Cobberras, Mt Stirling) where surveys have failed to detect populations of Burramys.
This package primarily contains data from West Higginbotham site 100 at Mt Hotham as it is the most rigorously sampled and longest term annually monitored Mountain Pygmy-possum (MPP) site. As such many of the data variables only have one entry relating to site 100 at Hotham also called Mt Higginbotham West 100. Also many of the variable won’t apply to site 100 as they relate to data being collected from Mt Buller as part of a recovery and genetic rescue program being implemented there.
There have been three main locations where sites have been established:
Mt Hotham surrounds: Mt Higginbotham (4 sites, annually since 1982, >15 sites with > 3 visits); Mt Loch (3 sites visited 7 times since 1983); Mt Little Higginbotham (3 sites visited 6 times since 2004).
Bogong High Plains and surrounds: (Mt McKay annually/ bi-annually since 1995); Timms Spur (7 surveys since 1992), Bundarra scree (> 2 sites with 10 visits since 1984); Pretty Valley and Falls Creek surrounds (> 10 sites with at least 3 visits; see Heinze et al. (2004)).
Mt Buller: (4 sites visited annually since 1996; 7 sites with at least 3 visits), sampling times include both breeding and non-breeding seasons.
There are other so-called ‘non-successful areas’ (e.g. Mt Wombargo, Cobberras, Mt Stirling) where surveys have failed to detect populations of Burramys.
This package primarily contains data from West Higginbotham site 100 at Mt Hotham as it is the most rigorously sampled and longest term annually monitored Mountain Pygmy-possum (MPP) site. As such many of the data variables only have one entry relating to site 100 at Hotham also called Mt Higginbotham West 100. Also many of the variable won’t apply to site 100 as they relate to data being collected from Mt Buller as part of a recovery and genetic rescue program being implemented there.
Data collection
2
Initially, trapping frequency was monthly trapping, but sample times have subsequently been targeted to the breeding season (Nov-Dec) since about 1987.
Three types of data are collected, athough this package only includes type 1.
1 = trapping data for each tagged (marked) individual capture (i.e. one row of data for each individual captured)
2 = summary trapping data where all individuals captured were tallied. This usually applies to unmarked animals other than MPP’s – there is one row of tallied data for each distinct species (i.e. rats, antechinus)
3 = summary site trapping data – occasionally some sites are trapped differently than normal (i.e. different number of arrangement of traps). This information is captured in each row.
At some sites hair samples (non-intrusive) for genetic analysis have been routinely collected since the early 1990s, but this data is not included in this package.
Three types of data are collected, athough this package only includes type 1.
1 = trapping data for each tagged (marked) individual capture (i.e. one row of data for each individual captured)
2 = summary trapping data where all individuals captured were tallied. This usually applies to unmarked animals other than MPP’s – there is one row of tallied data for each distinct species (i.e. rats, antechinus)
3 = summary site trapping data – occasionally some sites are trapped differently than normal (i.e. different number of arrangement of traps). This information is captured in each row.
At some sites hair samples (non-intrusive) for genetic analysis have been routinely collected since the early 1990s, but this data is not included in this package.
File Descriptions
vbps_burramys_population_survey_1982-2017_p823t1212.csv
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Contact Email
belln@unimelb.edu.au;
ary@unimelb.edu.au;
r.woodward@unsw.edu.au;
chwahren@gmail.com;
james.camac@gmail.com;
j.morgan@latrobe.edu.au
Contact Address
Bio21 Institute
Departments of Genetics and Zoology
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Vic., 3010
Australia
Contact Phone Number
+61 3 8344 2282;
+61 2 9585 6051;
+61 400 972 404;
+61 3 9479 2226;
+61 3 9479 1230;
+61 428 810 214
Principal Investigator
Ary Hoffman
Supervisors
Ary Hoffman
Collaborators
John Morgan;
La Trobe University;
Warwick Papst;
Henrick Wahren;
Richard Williams;
Renee Woodward
Fields of Research
0501 - Ecological Applications;
0502 - Environmental Science and Management;
0602 - Ecology;
0608 - Zoology
Keywords
GCMD:Earth Science > Biological Classification > Animals/Vertebrates > Mammals;
LTERN Monitoring Theme:Mammals;
keyword:Burramys parvus;
keyword:Mountain Pygmy-possum;
Victorian Alpine;
Burramys Population Survey;
Burramys Trapping Data
Type of Research Activity
Strategic basic research
Date Coverage
2017
1982
Geospatial Location
Mount Hotham, South-east Highlands, Victoria, Australia
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northlimit = -36.73575; southlimit = -37.49639; westlimit = 146.41728; eastLimit = 147.40598
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Date of data creation
2018-10-25
Year of data publication
2018
Creator(s) for Citation
Hoffman
Ary
Williams
Dick
Wahren
Henrick
Camac
James
Morgan
John
Papst
Warwick
Publisher for Citation
Long Term Ecological Research Netwo (LTERN), ANU Data Commons, The Australian National University
Other Related Identifiers
MorphoId:ltern.327;
PackageId:823
Access Rights Type
Open
Rights held in and over the data
Creative Commons Licence (CC BY) is assigned to this data. Details of the licence can be found at http://creativecommons.org.au/licences.
Licence Type
CC-BY - Attribution (Version 4)
Licence
LTERN Deed: 7
Date of execution: 2016-10-10
Retention Period
Indefinitely
Data Management Plan
No
Status: Published
Published to:
Published to:
- Australian National University
- Australian National Data Service
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Dr John Morgan [anudc:5596] - hasAssociationWith:
Dr Carl-Henrik A Wahren [anudc:5591] - hasAssociationWith:
Richard Williams [anudc:5618] - hasAssociationWith:
La Trobe University [anudc:5634] - hasAssociationWith:
Warwick Papst [anudc:5628]