AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Wooroonooran Nature Refuge, QLD. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details for the Wooroonooran Nature Refuge. 

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: the original vegetation for the site was a complex mesophyll vine forest on basaltic red loams on wet uplands, altitude 720&nbsp;m with 4.421&nbsp;mm rainfall (av annual records for the period 1993-2011, source: Peter Stanton). 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1800: Indigenous management of mesophyll rainforest by Ngadyan people</li>
<li>1924: Start of selective logging of high value timber species</li>
<li>1930: Finish of selective logging of high value timber species - intent to convert rainforest to pasture</li>
<li>1931: Start of land clearing of the previously logged forest - intent to convert rainforest to pasture</li>
<li>1938: End of land clearing of the previously logged forest - forest trash burnt</li>
<li>1939: Start of intensive soil and pasture management - soil not ploughed - aggressive pasture grasses sown into ash bed</li>
<li>1940: Start of grazing - pasture for dairying</li>
<li>1958: End of grazing, planted pasture for dairying. Pastures infertile. All livestock removed</li>
<li>1959: Start of land abandonment and minimal use</li>
<li>1983: Commenced large scale spraying and poisoning and physical removal of lantana</li>
<li>1993: Regrowth rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) in gullies and on lower slopes - 50% of lot 2</li>
<li>1994: Continued large scale spraying and poisoning of lantana and carpet grass</li>
<li>2003: Site formally gazetted as Wooroonooran Nature Refuge by WTMA</li>
<li>2011: Site continues to be manage for multiple values: timber reserve, biodiversity and habitat values.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Abandonment, Conversion, Dairying, Grazing, Lantana, Rainforest, Regeneration, Regrowth, Weed control
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Cumberland State Forest, NSW, Old Abandoned Arboretum 3a, 7a, 7b and 7c. VAST-2: Tracking Vegetation Transformation in Australian Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about the Cumberland State Forest, Old Abandoned Arboretum site, NSW, Australia. 

Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: The Cumberland State Forest is part of the Blue Gum High Forest (Daniel Connolly pers comm). It is a tall wet sclerophyll forest found on Wianamatta group Ashfield Shale. Blue Gum High Forest is dominated by Sydney blue gum (<em>Eucalyptus saligna</em>), blackbutt (<em>E. pilularis</em>), and turpentine (<em>Syncarpia glomulifera</em>) with a number of other eucalypts occurring patchily. A sparse open cover of small trees includes a variety of sclerophyllous and mesophyllous species. The ground layer is variable in composition and cover; including ferny, grassy or herbaceous and/or vines and climbers. The characteristics of the ground cover are related to the topgraphic position. 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1788- Area managed by indigenous Darug people</li>
<li>1788-1824: Region explored, un-modified native forest blue gum/ironbark on shale</li>
<li>1825: Parcel selected by Mr Shepherd</li>
<li>1860: Tree cover likely to have been thinned - selective logging for fences and housing</li>
<li>1826-1907: Grazing stock on native pastures</li>
<li>1908: Land parcel cleared and sown to improved pasture, and evidence of chicken farm and fruit orchards</li>
<li>1909-1937: Managed as improved pasture and grazing</li>
<li>1937-38: Purchased by NSW Forestry Commission</li>
<li>1941-42: Remaining native forest trees cleared to establish an arboretum</li>
<li>1943-45: Arboretum planted as a future urban working forest</li>
<li>1946-73: Arboretum managed for education and demonstration - infilling regrowth native forest observed</li>
<li>1974-84: Arboretum increasing managed for recreation - infilling regrowth native forest observed</li>
<li>1985-2012: Area managed for recreation (ex-arboretum and regrowth native forest).</li>

</ul>

Tags: Arboretum, Cattle grazing, Continous stocking, Improved pasture, Native pasture, Pasture improvement, Revegetation, Shepherds, State Forest, Superphosphate, Tree removal, Tubestock, Weed contol
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station in ACT, Australia.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: the original vegetation for the site Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station was a temperate grassland in an ecological community dominated by native species of perennial tussock grasses. 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>Up to late 1820s the area was managed by indigenous Ngunnawal people</li>
<li>1830s: Area first grazed by sheep and cattle with the aid of shepherds</li>
<li>1860: Fences were established and continuous stocking commenced</li>
<li>1900: Patches of woodland areas on higher ground were partly cleared</li>
<li>1900-39: High likelihood of moderate to heavy grazing pressure due to sheep and cattle</li>
<li>1940-1993: Area managed as a naval transmission station</li>
<li>1940-92: Area managed for sheep grazing under continuous grazing</li>
<li>1970: Secure people and kangaroo proof fence established</li>
<li>1993: Sheep removed from the site</li>
<li>1995: mowers used to manage the grass</li>
<li>1997-2008: Kangaroo population increased to unacceptable levels</li>
<li>2006: Naval transmission towers demolished, area continued to have a secure people proof fence</li>
<li>2008: Kangaroo population culled to reduce grazing pressure</li>
<li>2011: Site managed for nature conservation values.</li>

</ul>

Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Taroom Shire Wanaringa, QLD. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about the Taroom Shire site in Queensland, Australia. 

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: the site was originally a brigalow, <em>Acacia harpophylla</em>, mixed community associated with several overstorey species, including <em>Eucalyptus coolabah</em>, <em>E. cambageana</em>, <em>Casuarina cristata</em>, a range of understorey species, grassy woodlands and open forests. 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1860: Area used for sheep grazing by shepherds</li>
<li>1870: Permanent fences established</li>
<li>1875: Start of continuous or set stocking with sheep</li>
<li>1880: Incursion of prickly pear started</li>
<li>1935: Prickly pear had been destroyed</li>
<li>1929-1932: Land clearance through ringbarking</li>
<li>1929-1932: Gradual increase in cattle numbers decline in sheep</li>
<li>1940-1955: Manual clearing of brigalow with axes issues with regrowth</li>
<li>1960-62: Brigalow pulled mechanically and soil ploughed</li>
<li>1962: Soil ploughed and sown to buffel grass pasture</li>
<li>1962-65: Continuous grazing with cattle on buffel grass pasture</li>
<li>1966-75: Soil ploughed and sown to wheat annually – cattle graze stubble</li>
<li>1976: Soil ploughed and sown to buffel grass pasture</li>
<li>1976-2000: Continuous grazing with cattle on buffel grass pasture</li>
<li>2001-10: Soil ploughed and sown to wheat annually – cattle graze stubble.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Applying fertiliser, Blade ploughing, Burning pulled brigalow, Continuous stocking with sheep, Cropping, Grazing cattle, Grazing sheep, Living with prickly pear, Pulling brigalow, Ring barking, Sowing buffel grass
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Conserving Koalas in the 21st Century: Synthesising the Dynamics of Australia’s Koala Populations

We conducted a four-step Delphi expert elicitation procedure. This approach allowed us to address the gaps in knowledge regarding national koala populations with the robustness of collective judgement. The four steps of the Delphi method ask for an upper estimate, a lower estimate, a best guess and a percentage confidence interval. Prior to the commencement of the workshop, the participants were required to complete the first round of the questionnaire. These results were then re-evaluated during the workshop and a second round of elicitation was conducted. The outcome of the two workshops will be a synthesis of the distribution and abundance of koalas, population trends, and a region-specific summary of threats to koalas. Peer-reviewed journal publications will be produced. The information will be used to inform researchers, managers and decision-makers to ensure that viable koala populations persist across their natural range.

Tags: bioregion, collective judgement, expert elicitation, koala research network, population decline, population estimation, population trends
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP) from TERN Gingin Banksia Woodland SuperSite

Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP) upward-looking images are collected three times per year to capture vegetation and crown cover at the Gingin Banksia Woodland SuperSite.  These images are used to estimate Leaf area index (LAI). 



The Gingin Banksia Woodland SuperSite was established in 2011 and is located in a natural woodland of high species diversity with an overstorey dominated by Banksia species. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/gingin-banksia-woodland-supersite/.



Other images collected at the site include digital cover photography (DCP), photopoints, phenocam time-lapse images taken from fixed under and overstorey cameras and ancillary images of fauna and flora.


Tags: Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP), TERN Ecosystem Processes, WAASWA0004, WAASWA0005, ggbw, leaf area index
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP) from TERN Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite

Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP) upward-looking images are collected twice per year to capture vegetation and crown cover at the Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite.  These images are used to estimate Leaf area index (LAI). The images are captured at the times of estimated maximum and minimum LAI.



The Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite was established in 2012 and is located in a stand of tall, mixed-aged <em>Eucalyptus obliqua</em> forest (1.5, 77 and &gt;250 years-old) with a rainforest / wet sclerophyll understorey and a dense man-fern (<em>Dicksonia antarctica</em>) ground-layer. The site experienced a fire in January 2019, which consumed the ground layer and killed a high proportion of the understorey trees but stimulated dense seedling regeneration. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/warra-tall-eucalypt-supersite/.



Other images collected at the site include photopoints, phenocam time-lapse images taken from fixed under and overstorey cameras, panoramic landscape and ancillary images of fauna and flora.


Tags: Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP), TERN Ecosystem Processes, leaf area index, wrra
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Weekly Pollen Count Data for the Site of Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

The datafile contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen for the location of Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. The data was collected for the period between September 2006 to December 2006 as part of a study of atmospheric particles and human health. This forms part of a study of the Australian Aerobiology working group (Haberle, Bowman, Newnham, Johnston, Beggs, Buters, Campbell, Erbas, Godwin, Green, Heute, Jaggard, Medek, Murray, Newbiggin, Thibaudon, Vicendese, Williamson, Davies “The macroecology of airborne pollen in Australian and New Zealand urban areas”).

Tags: weekly pollen counts
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Cumberland State Forest, NSW, Regrowth of Compartments 8b, 9a and 9b. VAST- 2: Tracking Vegetation Transformation in Australian Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about the Cumberland State Forest, compartments 8b, 9a and 9b, NSW, Australia. 

Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: the site was originally a wet sclerophyll forest found on Wianamatta group Ashfield Shale. 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1788: Area managed by indigenous Darug people</li>
<li>1788-1824: Region explored - un-modified native forest blue gum/ironbark on shale</li>
<li>1825: Parcel selected by shepherd</li>
<li>1826-1907: Grazing cattle on native pastures</li>
<li>1860: Tree cover likely to have been thinned - selective logging</li>
<li>1908: Commenced clearing patches of trees for improved pasture, chooks, orchards</li>
<li>1909-1937: Managed as improved pasture for grazing</li>
<li>1937-38: Purchased by NSW Forestry Commission</li>
<li>1941-42: Area cleared of remaining native forest trees</li>
<li>1946-73: Area managed for education and demonstration - regenerating native forest</li>
<li>1974-84: Area increasing managed for recreation - regenerating native forest</li>
<li>1985-2012: Area managed for recreation - regenerating native forest.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Cattle grazing, Clear fell, Continous grazing, Fencing, Native pasture, Regeneration, Regrowth, Shepherds, State Forest, Timber harvesting, Tree removal, Weed contol
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Weekly Pollen Count Data for the Australian National University, Canberra

The datafile contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen in the campus of the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. The data was collected for the period between September 2007 to December 2009 as part of a large research program looking at atmospheric particles and human health and phenology of urban planted environments (unpublished).

Tags: weekly pollen counts
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Weekly Pollen Count Data Collected for the Melbourne Air Pollen Children and Adolescent Health (MAPCAH) Study

The datafile contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen collected at the University of Melbourne campus at Parkville, Melbourne, Australia for the MAPCAH study. The data were collected between September 2009 and December 2011 as part of a research program looking at the relationship between airborne pollen and asthma exacerbations in children and adolescents (Erbas et al., 2012). These data have been included as part of a study of the Australian Aerobiology working group (Haberle, Bowman, Newnham, Johnston, Beggs, Buters, Campbell, Erbas, Godwin, Green, Heute, Jaggard, Medek, Murray, Newbigin, Thibaudon, Vicendese, Williamson, Davies “The macroecology of airborne pollen in Australian and New Zealand urban areas”).

Tags: weekly pollen counts
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Digital Cover Photography (DCP) from TERN Boyagin Wandoo Woodland SuperSite

Digital Cover Photography (DCP) upward-looking images will be collected up to twice per year to capture vegetation cover at Boyagin Wandoo Woodland SuperSite. These images can be used to estimate Leaf area index (LAI), Crown Cover or Foliage Projective Cover (FPC). 

The Boyagin Wandoo Woodland SuperSite was established in 2017 in Wandoo Woodland, which is surrounded by broadacre farming. About 80% of the overstorey cover is <em>Eucalyptus accedens</em>. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/boyagin-wandoo-woodland-supersite/ .

Digital Hemispheric Photography (DHP) has also been collected at Boyagin SuperSite.

Tags: Digital Cover Photography, Foliage Projective Cover, TERN Ecosystem Processes, WAAAVW0004, leaf area index
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve Site 3, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve Site 3.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: The site was originally woodlands on the deeper soils of the lower slopes and flats (<em>Eucalyptus blakelyi</em> and <em>Eucalyptus melliodora</em>) (McIntyre et al., 2010).

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1819: Area managed by indigenous Ngunnawal people</li>
<li>1826: Sheep grazing with shepherds commenced</li>
<li>1860: Fences constructed - continuous stocking with sheep commenced in large paddocks</li>
<li>1920-1925: Large old and dead trees felled for firewood for Canberra market</li>
<li>1961: 50 acre paddock fenced as a future lambing paddock</li>
<li>1962-1965: Remaining trees ringbarked, left to stand to dry out and sold as firewood</li>
<li>1966-1978: Paddock converted to improved pasture. Repeated resown and fertilized</li>
<li>1979-2004: Holding paddock for lambing ewes</li>
<li>1994: Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve established</li>
<li>2004: Continuous stocking with sheep grazing ceased</li>
<li>2005: Kangaroo proof fence erected</li>
<li>2008: Kangaroo population begins to rapidly increase</li>
<li>2008: Commenced annual removal of pest species of plants and animals</li>
<li>2009: Introduced large logs to the site from off the Reserve</li>
<li>2010: Commenced annual kangaroo cull.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Conversion to improved pasture, Culling kangaroos, Ecological monitoring, Fire wood collection, Kangaroo proof fence, Lambing paddock, Large logs introduced, Poisoning feral animls, Sheep grazing, Shooting feral animals, Spraying weeds, Trapping feral animals
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Blundells Flat, Ex-coupe 424, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about site in Blundells Flat, ex-coupe 424, ACT. 

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: The site was originally a brown barrel (<em>Eucalyptus fastigata</em>), growing in association with ribbon gum (<em>E. viminalis</em>). 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1788: Unmodified and intact tall open eucalypt forest; forest unaffected</li>
<li>1915: Water catchment area declared for Canberra - forest unaffected</li>
<li>1955: Commenced selective logging of mainly brown barrel (<em>E. fastigata</em>)</li>
<li>1956: Clear-felled remaining wet sclerophyll forest and pushed timber into windrows with a bulldozer</li>
<li>1958: Felled timber burnt in February</li>
<li>1958: 1st rotation radiata or Monterey pine (<em>Pinus radiata</em>) planted by hand</li>
<li>1960: Controlled competing regrowth native vegetation, manually with axes, slashers, or hoes</li>
<li>1986: 1st rotation <em>P. radiata</em> harvested with crawler tractors</li>
<li>1987: Coupe was treated using a crusher roller weighing 17 tonnes towed by a D8 bulldozer</li>
<li>1988: Coupe was ripped and mounded. 2nd rotation <em>P. radiata</em> seedlings planted by hand with a mattock. Fertilized every seedling by hand</li>
<li>1990: Controlled competing regrowth native vegetation using brush hooks e.g. eucalypts, acacia and 1st rotation pine seedlings</li>
<li>2002: 14 year old 2nd rotation was thinned and pruned to around 450 stems / ha. Thinnings were left on the ground to decay</li>
<li>2003: Area burnt by severe wildfire killed all pines. Sterile rye grass was sown across the coupe using light aircraft to stabilise erodible soils. Killed pines and native regrowth pushed over and windrowed with a bulldozer</li>
<li>2004: Windrowed timber was burnt. Site declared minimal use - rehabilitation</li>
<li>2005: Contractors were engaged to manually remove pine wildlings</li>
<li>2005-2012: Site left to rehabilitate.</li>

</ul>

Tags: 1st rotation Pinus radiata, 2nd rotation P. radiata, Brown Barrel (E. fastigata), Control competing regrowth, Harvesting, NPK fertiliser, Planting, Rehabilitation, Ripping, Selective logging, Severe wildfire, Sterile rye corn grass, Water catchment area, Wildlings
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Karawatha Peri-Urban, Abundance Of Hollow Bearing Trees Data, 2009

The dataset contains information on the abundance of hollow bearing trees in the Karawatha Peri-Urban site recorded from between 2006 and 2009. There is information on the tree species name, diameter at breast height, tree alive status, and a number of attributes related to the hollows, such as its location, height, length, width and the type.

Tags: Tree Hollows
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Pyrogeography: Integrating and Evaluating Existing Models of Australian Fire Regimes to Predict Climate Change Impacts

The ACEAS working group has developed a framework to evaluate the extent to which fire regimes are driven by climate and other environmental variables, and whether these fire and environment relationships concord with: (a) predictions of the group of conceptual models recently developed; and (b) predictions of process-based models. The dataset provides a distribution of major fire regimes niches throughout Australia ordered according to decreasing annual net primary productivity. The dataset published is the distribution of major fire regimes niches throughout Australia.

Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery