AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - VERH Vegetation Survey

VERH. The VERH(VERH) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Tags: Acacia dealbata Link, Acacia dimidiata, Acacia irrorata Sieber ex Spreng., Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd., Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. subsp. longifolia, Acacia ulicifolia (Salisb.) Court, Baumea juncea (R.Br.) Palla, Casuarina glauca Sieber ex Spreng., Cerastium glomeratum Thuill., Cheilanthes sieberi Kunze, Chenopodium ambrosioides f. ambrosioides, Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Desmodium sp., Eriachne mucronata f. (Alpha C.E.Hubbard 7882), Exocarpos cupressiformis Labill., Flora, Hydrocotyle bonariensis Lam., Imperata cylindrica (Nees) C.E.Hubb., Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis Hochst., Lantana camara L., Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell., Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake, Monotoca elliptica (Sm.) R.Br., Myrsine angusta, Ocimum tenuiflorum, Persoonia lanceolata Andrews, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud., Piper mestonii, Polygala macrobotrya, Portulaca bicolor, Pterocaulon serrulatum var. serrulatum, Richardia stellaris, Senecio madagascariensis Poir., Species Presence/Abundance, Utricularia lateriflora, Vegetation Structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Desert Uplands Plot Network: Vegetation Survey (Presence Data, Species Richness and Stem and Hollow Counts) for Plot PENR03, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013

The LTERN Desert Uplands Plot Network Vegetation Survey Data contains presence data, species richness data and structural data for 1 of 60 (50 after 2008) permanent 1 hectare plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. This data publication refers specifically to observations made at Plot PENR03, and this data is accessible as a composite data package at the following location: Metcalfe, D; Vanderduys, E (2014): Desert Uplands Plot Network: Vegetation Survey (Presence Data, Species Richness and Stem and Hollow Counts), Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.143.33/html
The CSIRO permanent plots are situated in Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, and extend across four leasehold cattle properties that lie within an area approximately 50km by 50km. The plots represent three vegetation management strategies, namely: 1) clearing (where all trees and shrubs are removed); 2) thinning (where ground and midstorey vegetation is removed); and 3) unmodiﬁed native woodlands where signiﬁcant thinning or clearing has not occurred. 
The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2013. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Desert Uplands Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-uplands

Tags: Grazing domestic livestock, Individual plants, Plant species abundance, Plant species composition, Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, Vegetation structure, disturbance, hollows, permanent plot, stem counts
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes for Plot WOUR11, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013

The Desert Uplands Plot Network Bird Count Data contains bird fauna data for 1 of 50 permanent 1 hectare plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. This data publication refers specifically to observations made at Plot WOUR11. 
The CSIRO permanent plots are situated in Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, and extend across four leasehold cattle properties that lie within an area approximately 50km by 50km. The plots represent three vegetation management strategies, namely: 1) clearing (where all trees and shrubs are removed); 2) thinning (where ground and midstorey vegetation is removed); and 3) unmodiﬁed native woodlands where signiﬁcant thinning or clearing has not occurred. Within each 1 ha site, eight five-minute diurnal bird counts are conducted over a four day period. Two counts are completed per day at each site: one count in the morning within three hours of sunrise and the other a minimum of three hours after this period and before sunset.
This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 2004 to 2013. Note that previous studies were undertaken at 60 permanent 1 hectare plots and that this data is accessible as a composite data package:
Metcalfe, D; Vanderduys, E (2014): Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.145.23/html
The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2013.   A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Desert Uplands Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-uplands

Tags: Birds, Grazing domestic livestock
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
ANUClimate collection

The daily and monthly climate variables contained herein have been generated using ANUClimate 1.0 (though ANUClimate 1.1 data is available for most daily products). This is a spatial model, developed by Michael Hutchinson, that integrates a new approach to the interpolation of Australia’s national point climate data to produce climate variables on a 0.01° longitude/latitude grid. Most climate values have been modelled by expressing each value as a normalised anomaly with respect to the gridded 1976-2005 mean. These means and anomalies were all interpolated by trivariate thin plate smoothing spline functions of longitude, latitude and vertically exaggerated elevation using ANUSPLIN Version 4.5, with additional dependences on proximity to the coast for the temperature and vapour pressure variables. Station elevations for the gridded temperature and vapour pressure variables were obtained from 0.01° local averages of grid values from the GEODATA 9 second DEM version 3. Station elevations for the gridded rainfall and pan evaporation variables were obtained from 0.05° local averages of grid values from the GEODATA 9 second DEM version 3.

Tags: 0401 - Atmospheric Sciences
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Daily total precipitation: ANUClimate 1.0, 0.01 degree, Australian Coverage, 1970-2014

Daily total precipitation for Australian continent between 1970-2014. Daily rainfall totals are useful for estimation of soil moisture for plant growth and surface runoff via soil water balance modelling.  Modelled by expressing each daily value, including zero rainfall, as a normalised anomaly with respect to the gridded 1976-2005 mean for each month, as provided by ANUClimate_v1-0_rain_monthly-mean_0-01deg_1976-2005. The daily anomalies were interpolated by trivariate thin plate smoothing spline functions of longitude, latitude and vertically exaggerated elevation using ANUSPLIN Version 4.5. Station elevations were 0.05 degree local averages of grid values from the GEODATA 9 second DEM version 3 as provided by ANUClimate_v1-0_dem05_terrain_0-01deg. There was an average of 6384 Bureau of Meteorology data points per day between 1970 and 2014. The mean absolute value of all individual cross validation residuals provided by the spline analysis is 0.95 mm (50% of the overall mean). Extreme studentised residuals clearly identified data errors associated with unrecognised missing values, unrecognised accumulated values, and values recorded on the wrong (usually preceding) day. There were on average around 5 such extreme residuals per day. The rainfall occurrence of the individual cross validated days agrees with the rainfall occurrence of 91% of all days of record, where daily rainfall occurrence is defined as daily rainfall exceeding 0.2 mm. A comprehensive assessment of the analysis and the factors contributing to the quality of the final interpolated monthly rainfall grids is in preparation.

Tags: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, EARTH SCIENCES
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - BARPOINT Vegetation Survey

Bar Point-Hawkesbury River. The BARPOINT(Bar Point-Hawkesbury River) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Tags: Acacia floribunda (Vent.) Willd., Acacia ulicifolia (Salisb.) Court, Adiantum hispidulum Sw., Angophora costata (Gaertn.) Britten, Anisopogon avenaceus R.Br., Astrotricha floccosa DC., Banksia integrifolia L.f., Billardiera scandens Sm., Breynia oblongifolia (Mull.Arg.) Mull.Arg., Bursaria spinosa Cav., Callitris sp., Carmona retusa, Cayratia clematidea (F.Muell.) Domin, Cleistochloa rigida S.T.Blake, Coldenia procumbens, Correa reflexa (Labill.) Vent. var. reflexa, Cupaniopsis newmanii, Cyathochaeta diandra (R.Br.) Nees, Daphnandra apatela, Duboisia myoporoides R.Br., Ectrosia agrostoides, Ehretia sp. (Whitfield Range R.Jago 17), Entolasia stricta (R.Br.) Hughes, Eremophila goodwinii, Eucalyptus punctata DC., Eustrephus latifolius R.Br. ex Ker Gawl., Ficus brachypoda, Ficus rubiginosa Desf. ex Vent., Flora, Glochidion disparipes, Glochidion ferdinandi, Glochidion ferdinandi (Mull.Arg.) F.M.Bailey, Gomphocarpus sp., Gompholobium latifolium Sm., Hibbertia dentata R.Br. ex DC., Hybanthus monopetalus (Schult.) Domin, Imperata cylindrica (Nees) C.E.Hubb., Lomandra confertifolia, Lomandra longifolia Labill., Maytenus silvestris Lander & L.A.S.Johnson, Monotoca elliptica (Sm.) R.Br., Myrsine variabilis (R.Br.) Mez, Oplismenus aemulus (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult., Pandorea pandorana (Andrews) Steenis, Patersonia sericea R.Br., Persoonia linearis Andrews, Pomax umbellata (Gaertn.) Sol. ex A.Rich., Poranthera microphylla Brongn., Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne, Smilax australis R.Br., Smilax glyciphylla Sm., Species Presence/Abundance, Stephania japonica var. discolor (Blume) Forman, Themeda australis (R.Br.) Stapf, Thunbergia arnhemica, Trochocarpa laurina (Rudge) R.Br., Tylophora barbata R.Br., Vegetation Structure, Xanthorrhoea media R.Br., Xanthosia pilosa Rudge
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index: NARCliM dataset: ~10km resolution, 2020-2039 period, ECHAM5 and R1 ensemble member

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Macarthur Forest Fire Danger index.  Modelled fire frequency projections at ~10km resolution for 2020-2039 period using ECHAM5 and R1 ensemble member using the WRF 3.3 model.  This product will provide policy makers, land managers and researchers access to accurate and temporally fine scaled information with which to make hazard reduction and management strategies.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Connell Rainforest Plot Network: Subtropical Rainforest Understorey Light Environment Data, O'Reilly's Plot, Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia, 2013+

This data package comprises data from a series of hemispherical photographs taken in July 2013 and May 2015 at the Connell Rainforest Plot near O’Reilly’s Guest House, 85 km south of Brisbane, Queensland.  The 2.0 ha site consists of separate 1.0 ha plots separated by 600 m, but they have always been treated as a single entity.  The site consists of mapped and tagged trees in all size classes from tiny seedlings to large canopy trees.  Rates of recruitment, growth and mortality have been measured at intervals of 1-6 years with records extending back to 1963.  
The primary determinant of growth rate in the understory is light.  Gaps created by the death of large canopy trees have been systematically surveyed many times over the decades until 2002, with the boundaries of the gaps being noted on hand drawn maps.  These maps have never been digitized, and the originals are held at the University of California.  Copies of some later maps are held by Green at La Trobe University.  A digital camera with a fish-eye lens was used for the first time in 2013 to measure understory light environments along the seedling transects. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Connell Rainforest Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/connell-rainforest.

Tags: Individual plants, Plant species abundance, Vegetation structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index: NARCliM dataset: ~10km resolution, 2020-2039 period, ECHAM5 and R3 ensemble member

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Macarthur Forest Fire Danger index.  Modelled fire frequency projections at ~10km resolution for 2020-2039 period using ECHAM5 and R3 ensemble member using the WRF 3.3 model.  This product will provide policy makers, land managers and researchers access to accurate and temporally fine scaled information with which to make hazard reduction and management strategies.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - TINGIRA Vegetation Survey

Survey of Tingira Hts Nature Reserve. The TINGIRA(Survey of Tingira Hts Nature Reserve) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Tags: Acacia falcata Willd., Acacia implexa Benth., Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd., Acacia ulicifolia (Salisb.) Court, Angophora costata (Gaertn.) Britten, Austrostipa pubescens (R.Br.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett, Billardiera scandens E.M.Benn., Breynia oblongifolia (Mull.Arg.) Mull.Arg., Brunoniella australis (Cav.) Bremek., Bursaria longisepala Domin, Callitris sp., Carmona retusa, Cassytha glabella R.Br. f. glabella, Corymbia gummifera (Gaertn.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson, Corymbia maculata (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson, Cryptocarya triplinervis var. pubens, Daviesia squarrosa Sm., Daviesia ulicifolia Andrews, Desmodium rhytidophyllum F.Muell. ex Benth., Desmodium sp., Dianella caerulea var. assera R.J.F.Hend., Dichondra repens, Dillwynia retorta (J.C.Wendl.) Druce, Dodonaea triquetra J.C.Wendl., Entolasia stricta (R.Br.) Hughes, Epacris pulchella Cav., Eucalyptus piperita Sm., Eucalyptus punctata DC., Eucalyptus siderophloia Benth., Eucalyptus umbra R.T.Baker, Euchiton sp., Exocarpos cupressiformis Labill., Flora, Glycine clandestina J.C.Wendl., Gonocarpus teucrioides DC., Goodenia heterophylla Sm. subsp. heterophylla, Imperata cylindrica (Nees) C.E.Hubb., Lepidosperma neesii Kunth, Leptospermum polygalifolium subsp. cismontanum Joy Thomps., Lindsaea linearis Sw., Lomandra confertifolia subsp. rubiginosa A.T.Lee, Lomandra longifolia Labill., Lomandra multiflora (R.Br.) Britten subsp. multiflora, Maytenus silvestris Lander & L.A.S.Johnson, Mirbelia rubiifolia (Andrews) G.Don, Persoonia levis (Cav.) Domin, Persoonia linearis Andrews, Phyllanthus hirtellus (F.Muell.) Mull.Arg., Polymeria calycina R.Br., Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne, Pultenaea retusa Sm., Pultenaea villosa Willd., Rytidosperma pallidum (R.Br.) A.M.Humphreys & H.P.Linder, Sclerolaena eriacantha, Species Presence/Abundance, Streptoglossa decurrens, Tephrosia brachycarpa, Themeda australis (R.Br.) Stapf, Trachymene psammophila, Trichosanthes pentaphylla, Tricoryne sp., Utricularia lateriflora, Vegetation Structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index: NARCliM dataset: ~10km resolution, 2020-2039 period, CSIRO-MK3.0 and R1 ensemble member

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Macarthur Forest Fire Danger index.  Modelled fire frequency projections at ~10km resolution for 2020-2039 period using CSIRO-MK3.0 and R1 ensemble member using the WRF 3.3 model.  This product will provide policy makers, land managers and researchers access to accurate and temporally fine scaled information with which to make hazard reduction and management strategies.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Desert Ecology Plot Network: Mammal Abundance Plot-data, Simpson Desert, Western Queensland, 2016

This mammal abundance trap data package comprises capture data for a specified duration of trapping nights (usually 3 night session) in the Simpson Desert, Western Queensland. Captured mammal fauna were identified and recaptures during the same session were removed (i.e. individuals were only counted once). Date, site and grid number were recorded for all captures, and captured animals were also marked by a unique ear notch prior to their release to identify recaptures. The network program uses a core of 12 sites which are sampled every April-May. The trapping survey aims to quantitatively track long-term shifts in biodiversity and ecological processes in relation to key drivers, including unpredictable rainfall and droughts, fire, feral predators and grazing. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Desert Ecology's full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-ecology.

Tags: Mammals
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes for Plot PENR01, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013

The Desert Uplands Plot Network Bird Count Data contains bird fauna data for 1 of 50 permanent 1 hectare plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. This data publication refers specifically to observations made at Plot PENR01. 
The CSIRO permanent plots are situated in Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, and extend across four leasehold cattle properties that lie within an area approximately 50km by 50km. The plots represent three vegetation management strategies, namely: 1) clearing (where all trees and shrubs are removed); 2) thinning (where ground and midstorey vegetation is removed); and 3) unmodiﬁed native woodlands where signiﬁcant thinning or clearing has not occurred. Within each 1 ha site, eight five-minute diurnal bird counts are conducted over a four day period. Two counts are completed per day at each site: one count in the morning within three hours of sunrise and the other a minimum of three hours after this period and before sunset.
This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 2004 to 2013. Note that previous studies were undertaken at 60 permanent 1 hectare plots and that this data is accessible as a composite data package:
Metcalfe, D; Vanderduys, E (2014): Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.145.23/html
The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2013.   A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Desert Uplands Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-uplands

Tags: Birds, Grazing domestic livestock
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index: NARCliM dataset: ~50km resolution, 2060-2079 period, MIROC3.2 and R3 ensemble member

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Macarthur Forest Fire Danger index.  Modelled fire frequency projections at ~50km resolution for 2060-2079 period using MIROC3.2 and R3 ensemble member using the WRF 3.3 model.  This product will provide policy makers, land managers and researchers access to accurate and temporally fine scaled information with which to make hazard reduction and management strategies.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - LOCKYER Vegetation Survey

Hanging swamp near Mt Locker, Yengo NP. The LOCKYER(Hanging swamp near Mt Locker, Yengo NP) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Tags: Aristida warburgii Mez, Banksia oblongifolia Cav., Banksia serrata L.f., Bossiaea heterophylla Vent., Caesia parviflora R.Br. var. parviflora, Callistemon citrinus (Curtis) Skeels, Callitris sp., Cassytha glabella R.Br. f. glabella, Cryptocarya rhodosperma, Dampiera stricta (Sm.) R.Br., Disturbance, Dodonaea viscosa subsp. viscosa, Entolasia stricta (R.Br.) Hughes, Erosion, Flora, Genoplesium filiforme (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem., Geology, Goodenia dimorpha Maiden & Betche var. dimorpha, Haemodorum corymbosum Vahl, Landscape, Lepyrodia scariosa R.Br., Lithology, Lomandra longifolia Labill., Olax stricta R.Br., Persoonia isophylla L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston, Petrophile pulchella (Schrad. & J.C.Wendl.) R.Br., Ptilothrix deusta (R.Br.) K.L.Wilson, Schoenus brevifolius R.Br., Soil, Species Presence/Abundance, Triplarina paludosa, Vegetation Structure, Xyris operculata Labill.
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Desert Uplands Plot Network: Vegetation Survey (Presence Data, Species Richness and Stem and Hollow Counts) for Plot PENR08, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013

The LTERN Desert Uplands Plot Network Vegetation Survey Data contains presence data, species richness data and structural data for 1 of 60 (50 after 2008) permanent 1 hectare plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. This data publication refers specifically to observations made at Plot PENR08, and this data is accessible as a composite data package at the following location: Metcalfe, D; Vanderduys, E (2014): Desert Uplands Plot Network: Vegetation Survey (Presence Data, Species Richness and Stem and Hollow Counts), Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.143.33/html
The CSIRO permanent plots are situated in Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, and extend across four leasehold cattle properties that lie within an area approximately 50km by 50km. The plots represent three vegetation management strategies, namely: 1) clearing (where all trees and shrubs are removed); 2) thinning (where ground and midstorey vegetation is removed); and 3) unmodiﬁed native woodlands where signiﬁcant thinning or clearing has not occurred. 
The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2013. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Desert Uplands Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-uplands

Tags: Grazing domestic livestock, Individual plants, Plant species abundance, Plant species composition, Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, Vegetation structure, disturbance, hollows, permanent plot, stem counts
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery