AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Victorian Alpine Plot Network (ATEX): Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates, South-east Highlands, Australia

This data package contains spatial data and plot details for four sites situated on the Bogong High Plains that form the Australian Tundra Experiment (ATEX). Sites, which comprise multiple 1 square metre plots, are visited every second snow-free season. Responses in the growth and phenology of individual species and life forms, and changes to community composition and diversity are monitored according to internationally agreed-to protocols of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX). Data collected from the plots can then be used to generate predictions, which can be across elevation (and thus temperature) gradients, and assess above ground effects on carbon storage.
This is part of a larger dataset that spans from during data collected in 2003 to document long-term effects of climate change (see methods for more information).  The Victorian Alpine Plot Network research plots are revisited on a biannual basis, though measurements taken during surveys differ from visit to visit. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/victorian-alpine.

Tags: Plot details, Plot setup, Spatial coordinates
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - DUNCAN Vegetation Survey

Ken Duncan Gallery. The DUNCAN(Ken Duncan Gallery) 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: Acmena smithii (Poir.) Merr. & L.M.Perry, Adiantum hispidulum Sw., Alphitonia excelsa (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl) Benth., Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (H.Wendl.) H.Wendl. & Drude, Carmona retusa, Cinnamomum camphora (L.) T.Nees & C.H.Eberm., Clerodendrum tomentosum (Vent.) R.Br., Cryptocarya meisneriana, Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin, Cyathea leichhardtiana (F.Muell.) Copel., Digitaria papposa, Dioscorea transversa R.Br., Duboisia myoporoides R.Br., Ehretia sp. (Whitfield Range R.Jago 17), Elattostachys megalantha, Eucalyptus portuensis, Eucalyptus saligna Sm., Eupomatia laurina R.Br., Evolvulus alsinoides var. villosicalyx, Exocarpos aphyllus, Flora, Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex Hook., Glochidion ferdinandi (Mull.Arg.) F.M.Bailey, Gomphocarpus sp., Lantana camara L., Marsdenia rostrata R.Br., Neosepicaea jucunda, Palmeria scandens F.Muell., Peripleura obovata, Plantae sp., Platycerium superbum, Pterocaulon redolens, Ripogonum fawcettianum F.Muell. ex Benth., Scaevola spinescens, Senna pendula var. glabrata (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby, Smilax australis R.Br., Smilax glyciphylla Sm., Species Presence/Abundance, Vegetation Structure, Xanthosia pilosa, Xylocarpus moluccensis, Yakirra pauciflora
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - ACT_BLAC Vegetation Survey

ACT Parks Black Mountain Survey. The ACT_BLAC(ACT Parks Black Mountain Survey) 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 decurrens Willd., Acacia doratoxylon A.Cunn., Acacia genistifolia Link, Acacia gunnii Benth., Acacia implexa Benth., Acacia lanigera A.Cunn., Acacia mearnsii De Wild., Acacia penninervis Sieber ex DC., Acaena ovina A.Cunn., Aira caryophyllea L., Ajuga australis R.Br., Aristida echinata Henrard, Aristida vagans Cav., Asperula conferta Hook.f., Asplenium flabellifolium Cav., Avena barbata Pott ex Link, Brachyloma daphnoides (Sm.) Benth., Brachyscome aculeata (Labill.) Less., Briza minor L., Bromus molliformis J.Lloyd, Bursaria spinosa Cav., Callitris endlicheri (Parl.) F.M.Bailey, Calochilus robertsonii Benth., Carduus pycnocephalus L., Carex appressa R.Br., Cassinia quinquefaria R.Br., Cassytha pubescens R.Br., Celtis australis L., Centaurium erythraea Rafn, Centipeda cunninghamii (DC.) A.Braun & Asch., Cerastium glomeratum Thuill., Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia H.M.Quirk & T.C.Chambers, Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten., Clematis leptophylla F.Muell. ex Benth., Cryptandra amara Sm. var. amara, Cymbonotus spp., Daviesia mimosoides R.Br. subsp. mimosoides, Dichelachne crinita (L.f.) Hook.f., Dichondra repens, Dillwynia retorta (J.C.Wendl.) Druce, Diospyros calycantha, Disturbance, Diuris maculata Sm., Drosera auriculata Backh. ex Planch., Drypetes vernicosa, Echinochloa colona, Echinopogon ovatus (G.Forst.) P.Beauv., Elymus scaber (R.Br.) A.Love, Epilobium billardierianum subsp. cinereum orth.var. P.H.Raven & Engelhorn, Eriachne ciliata, Erosion, Eucalyptus blakelyi Maiden, Eucalyptus dives Schauer, Eucalyptus macrorhyncha F.Muell. ex Benth., Eucalyptus mannifera Mudie, Eucalyptus polyanthemos Schauer subsp. polyanthemos, Eucalyptus rossii R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm., Euchiton gymnocephalus (DC.) Anderb., Euchiton sp., Eugenia uniflora, Exocarpos cupressiformis Labill., Flora, Geology, Geranium solanderi Carolin var. solanderi, Glycine clandestina var. clandestina, Glycine tabacina (Labill.) Benth., Gompholobium huegelii Benth., Goodenia hederacea Sm. subsp. hederacea, Homalium alnifolium, Landscape, Lithology, Lomandra confertifolia, Mitrasacme patens, Musgravea sp., Owenia acidula, Plantae sp., Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum (L.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt, Psydrax paludosa, Pterocaulon serrulatum, Rhodanthe microglossa, Rourea brachyandra, Rytidosperma laeve (Vickery) H.P.Linder, Rytidosperma pallidum (R.Br.) S.W.L.Jacobs, Rytidosperma penicillatum (Labill.) H.P.Linder, Species Presence/Abundance, Tinospora sp., Tricoryne anceps, Tricoryne muricata, Triodia basedowii, Uvaria concava, Vegetation Structure, Xyris indica
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Annual temperature seasonality (standard deviation *100): eMAST-R-Package 2.0, 0.01 degree, Australian Coverage, 1970-2012

Annual temperature seasonality (standard deviation *100) for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Tags: 04 EARTH SCIENCES, 0401 Atmospheric Sciences
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Tropical Rainforest Plot Network: Rainforest Tree Demographic Data, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2015

The 2015 LTERN Tropical Rainforest Plot Network Rainforest Tree Demographic Data contains stem measurement data from 7 of its 20, 0.5 ha (100 m x 50 m) permanent rainforest plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 1971 to 2015 managed by CSIRO. The CSIRO permanent rainforest plots are located within 60 km of the north Queensland coast between Mackay (21.5ºS, 149ºE) and the Iron Range on Cape York Peninsula (12.5ºS, 143ºE). The plots have a rainfall range of 1200 to 3500 mm, represent eleven vegetation types, six parent materials, and range from 15 m to 1200 m above sea level. Except for minor disturbances associated with selective logging on two plots, the plots were established in old growth forest and all plots have thereafter been protected. Plots were regularly censused and at each census the diameter at breast height (DBH) of all stems ≥10 cm DBH is recorded.  Due to the wide geographical range of the plots, no species dominate, although the families Lauraceae, Rutaceae and Myrtaceae contribute a large number of species. The data collected from these 7 plots provides an insight into the floristical composition, structure and long term forest dynamics of Australian tropical rainforests and allows direct comparisons to be made with long-term monitoring plots at a global scale (Bradford, M.G., Murphy, H.T., Ford, A.J., Hogan, D. and Metcalfe, D.J. (2014). Long term stem inventory data from tropical rainforest plots in Australia. Ecology 95:2362. http://www.rainforest-crc.jcu.edu.au/publications/permanent_plots1.pdf. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Tropical Rainforest Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/tropical-rainforest.

Tags: Australia, Individual plants, Plant species abundance, Plant species composition, Vegetation structure, biomass, cyclone, disturbance, hurricane, mortality, permanent plot, rainforest, recruitment, stem growth, stem height
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network (Fauna): Faunal Search (Diurnal Census for Vertebrates), Nitmiluk National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, 2017

These data comprise a systematic search for all vertebrate fauna at a set of sites within Nitmiluk National Park surveyed in either 2017 or 2018. A total of 20 sites were surveyed for terrestrial vertebrate fauna using a range of survey methods. Thirteen sites have prior monitoring through the Three Parks (Kakadu, Litchfield and Nitmiluk) Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network which involved sampling at 5-6 year intervals at 220 plots established from 1996 – 2002. Seven sites have no prior monitoring. In 2017/18 a paired plot design was implemented at all sites, involving the duplication of some but not all survey methods at a second plot directly adjacent to the traditional plot. At each 100 x 100 m plot 6 x 10 minute meander walking searches were performed during daylight hours at different times of the day (morning, midday and late afternoon) during a 4 day period. A record of ‘X’ indicates identification of species from tracks or scats. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Three Park Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/three-parks-savanna

Tags: Herpetofauna, Invasive animals, Mammals, Nitmilluk National Park, Vertebrates
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Long term Monitoring - Community Changes): Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates, South-east Highlands, Australia

The Victorian Alpine Plot Network Plot-data Package contains plot-data collected at eighty-nine sites situated in the Australian Alps. Randomly positioned transects are situated within sites rather than ‘plots’ sensu stricto.   The number of transects within sites, and sampling frequency varies from annual to decadal, depending on site and purpose. 
This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 1944, when plot were set up  to document long-term changes in ecosystem composition and structure in relation to disturbance (see methods for more information).  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  http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/victorian-alpine

Tags: Geographic, Plot details, Plot setup, Spatial coordinates
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Mean monthly incoming atmospheric longwave radiation modelled using the 1&quot; DEM-S - 3&quot; mosaic

Mean monthly solar radiation was modelled across Australia using topography from the 1 arcsecond resolution SRTM-derived DEM-S and climatic and land surface data. The SRAD model (Wilson and Gallant, 2000) was used to derive:
•   Incoming short-wave radiation on a sloping surface
•   Short-wave radiation ratio (shortwave on sloping surface / shortwave on horizontal surface)
•   Incoming long-wave radiation
•   Outgoing long-wave radiation
•   Net long-wave radiation
•   Net radiation
•   Sky view factor
All radiation values are in MJ/m2/day except for short-wave radiation ratio which has no units. The sky view factor is the fraction of the sky visible from a grid cell relative to a horizontal plane.
The radiation values are determined for the middle day of each month (14th or 15th) using long-term average atmospheric conditions (such as cloudiness and atmospheric transmittance) and surface conditions (albedo and vegetation cover). They include the effect of terrain slope, aspect and shadowing (for sun positions at 5 minute intervals from sunrise to sunset), direct and diffuse radiation and sky view.
The monthly data in this collection are available at 3 arcsecond resolution as single (mosaicked) grids for Australia in TIFF format. 
The 3 arcsecond resolution versions of these radiation surfaces have been produced from the 1 arcsecond resolution surfaces, by aggregating the cells in a 3x3 window and taking the mean value.
The 1 arcsecond tiled data can be found here: https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:9632 . The 1 arcsecond mosaic data can be found here: https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:18491

Tags: Australia, ECOLOGY Landscape, LAND Topography Models, Land Surface, Monthly incoming longwave radiation, TERN_Soils
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network: Plot-based Vegetation Sampling Data, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, 2013

The Three Parks Savanna Fire-Effects Network was established in 1994 with the primary aim of training management staff and assisting with the development of adaptive approaches to conservation-based fire management in regional savanna systems. The full program assesses fire regimes and their impacts on plant and vertebrate biodiversity components. The program comprises two complementary elements - mapping of fire histories based upon interpretation of satellite imagery, and assessment of vegetation and faunal components at a large series of permanent monitoring plots located across respective parks. The vegetation data comprises quantitative assessment of all species in three major strata within 800 square metre plots. Faunal assessments are undertaken in the immediate vicinity of respective plots. The occurrence of fire is assessed bi-annually on-ground and satellite derived fire mapping is conducted three times a year. A full inventory of vegetation is undertaken every five years. Terrestrial vertebrates are monitored systematically but on an irregular and less frequent basis. This dataset comprises vegetation sampling data collected in April 2013 which is a subset of the fifth sampling visit to the 133 plots located in Kakadu National Park. 
Note: Plots are located within a National Park and physical access to the plots is restricted.
*Note: This package used to be called "Monitoring the impacts of fire regimes on vegetation in northern Australia: Plot based vegetation sampling data, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory Australia, April 2013" but has been relabelled for consistency.

Tags: Fire, Flora, Individual plants, Invasive plants, Kakadu, Parks, Plant species abundance, Plant species composition, Savanna, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetation structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Proportion of days per month with precip > 0.2mm : ANUClimate 1.0, 0.01 degree, Australian Coverage

Proportion of days in each month with precipitation above 0.2 mm for the Australian continent between 1970-2014. The proportion of wet days per month is useful for estimating evaporation rates and water need and use, and also for estimating solar radiation. Modelled by using ANUSPLIN Version 4.5 to fit trivariate thin plate smoothing spline functions of longitude, latitude and vertically exaggerated elevation. 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_digital-elevation-model-05deg-average_terrain_0-01deg. Anomaly based interpolation was not used because it gave no improvement over direct interpolation, due to the extensive daily precipitation network and the strong spatial coherence of daily rainfall occurrence. Monthly data values were obtained from Bureau of Meteorology daily rainfall data at stations where there were at least 25 days of record and no accumulated days of record, giving an average of 6320 data points per month between 1970 and 2014. Automated quality assessment rejected on average 35 data values per month (0.006%) with extreme studentised residuals. The root mean square of all individual cross validation residuals provided by the spline analysis is 0.060, corresponding to a root men square error in estimating the number of wet days of around 1.8 days per month. A comprehensive assessment of the analysis of the final interpolated grids is in preparation.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - PION1991 Vegetation Survey

Species List taken of Pioneer Dairy no quadrats. The PION1991(Species List taken of Pioneer Dairy no quadrats) 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: Abutilon hannii, Acmena smithii (Poir.) Merr. & L.M.Perry, Angophora floribunda (Sm.) Sweet, Azolla pinnata R.Br., Baloskion tetraphyllum Labill., Banksia spinulosa var. collina (R.Br.) A.S.George, Baumea juncea (R.Br.) Palla, Blechnum indicum Burm.f., Callistemon citrinus (Curtis) Skeels, Carex appressa R.Br., Casuarina glauca Sieber ex Spreng., Cinnamomum camphora (L.) T.Nees & C.H.Eberm., Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten., Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Cyperus pilosus, Dianella caerulea Sims, Diospyros laurina, Duboisia myoporoides R.Br., Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms, Elaeocarpus obovatus G.Don, Elattostachys microcarpa, Enchylaena tomentosa var. tomentosa, Enneapogon pallidus, Entolasia stricta (R.Br.) Hughes, Erythrina × sykesii Barneby & Krukoff, Erythroxylum sp. (Brewer LA B.Hyland 13373), Eucalyptus amplifolia Naudin, Eucalyptus botryoides Sm., Eucalyptus longifolia Link, Eucalyptus saligna Sm., Ficus macrophylla Desf. ex Pers., Ficus watkinsiana, Fimbristylis ferruginea (L.) Vahl, Flora, Gahnia clarkei, Gahnia clarkei Benl, Gardenia ovularis, Glochidion ferdinandi (Mull.Arg.) F.M.Bailey, Gomphocarpus sp., Hydrocotyle bonariensis Lam., Hypolepis muelleri N.A.Wakef., Juncus usitatus L.A.S.Johnson, Lomandra longifolia Labill., Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis (Spreng.) P.H.Raven, Maytenus silvestris Lander & L.A.S.Johnson, Melaleuca linariifolia Sm., Melaleuca nodosa (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Sm., Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake, Melaleuca thymifolia Sm., Myriophyllum aquaticum (Vell.) Verdc., Parsonsia rotata, Parsonsia straminea (R.Br.) F.Muell., Paspalum distichum (Michx.) Scribn., Persicaria decipiens (R.Br.) K.L.Wilson, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud., Phytolacca octandra L., Plantae sp., Pomaderris argyrophylla, Portulaca bicolor, Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne, Ranunculus spp., Rhynchosia sp., Salix babylonica L., Scaevola spinescens, Schoenoplectus mucronatus (L.) Palla ex A.Kern., Selliera radicans Cav., Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L., Sloanea australis subsp. parviflora, Solanum elaeagnifolium, Solanum furfuraceum, Species Presence/Abundance, Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth, Tacca sp., Thaumastochloa major, Themeda arguens, Typha orientalis C.Presl, Vegetation Structure, Viminaria juncea (Schrad. & J.C.Wendl.) Hoffmanns.
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes for Plot WOUR08, 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 WOUR08. 
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
Mean monthly outgoing surface longwave radiation modelled using the 1&quot; DEM-S - 3&quot; mosaic data

Mean monthly solar radiation was modelled across Australia using topography from the 1 arcsecond resolution SRTM-derived DEM-S and climatic and land surface data. The SRAD model (Wilson and Gallant, 2000) was used to derive:
•   Incoming short-wave radiation on a sloping surface
•   Short-wave radiation ratio (shortwave on sloping surface / shortwave on horizontal surface)
•   Incoming long-wave radiation
•   Outgoing long-wave radiation
•   Net long-wave radiation
•   Net radiation
•   Sky view factor
All radiation values are in MJ/m2/day except for short-wave radiation ratio which has no units. The sky view factor is the fraction of the sky visible from a grid cell relative to a horizontal plane.
The radiation values are determined for the middle day of each month (14th or 15th) using long-term average atmospheric conditions (such as cloudiness and atmospheric transmittance) and surface conditions (albedo and vegetation cover). They include the effect of terrain slope, aspect and shadowing (for sun positions at 5 minute intervals from sunrise to sunset), direct and diffuse radiation and sky view.
The data in this collection are available at 3 arcsecond resolution as single (mosaicked) grids for Australia in TIFF format.
The 3 arcsecond resolution versions of these radiation surfaces have been produced from the 1 arcsecond resolution surfaces, by aggregating the cells in a 3x3 window and taking the mean value.
The 1 arcsecond tiled data can be found here: https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:18335 . The 1 arcsecond mosaic data can be found here: https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:9634

Tags: Australia, ECOLOGY Landscape, LAND Topography Models, Land Surface, Monthly outgoing longwave radiation, TERN_Soils
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery