AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
South Brooman State Forest, NSW. 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 South Brooman State Forest, NSW. 

Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: The site was originally eucalypt tall open forest, multi-aged open, dry sclerophyll forest. The main overstorey species were spotted gum (<em>Corymbia maculata</em>), <em>Eucalyptus muelleriana</em>, <em>E. paniculata</em>, <em>E. pilularis</em>. The main understorey species were <em>Acacia spp.</em>, <em>Acmena spp.</em> 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1830: Unmodified</li>
<li>1880: Area picked over for high quality sawlogs</li>
<li>1945: Area picked over for high quality sawlogs</li>
<li>1949: Sawlog harvesting - 85% of area</li>
<li>1959: Sawlog harvesting - 85% of area</li>
<li>1968: Commercial Thinning - 25% of area</li>
<li>1969: Area left to rehabilitate</li>
<li>1994: Wildfire - 100% of the area</li>
<li>1996: Pole harvesting - 5% of area</li>
<li>1998: Sawlog harvesting - 20% of the area</li>
<li>1999 and 2003: Hazard reduction</li>
<li>1997: Site was burnt (prescribed fire) followed by drought</li>
<li>2004-2011:  Area left to rehabilitate</li>

</ul>

Tags: Commercial Thinning, High Quality Sawlogs, Prescribed burning, Selective Logging, Silvicultural Practices, Wildfire
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Blundells Flat, Ex-coupe 427A, 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 Blundells Flat, ex-coupe 427A, ACT. 

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: the site vegetation was originally 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>1860: Area burnt by severe wildfire</li>
<li>1915: Water catchment area declared for Canberra –forest unaffected</li>
<li>1939: Area burnt by severe wildfire</li>
<li>1915-1954: Area managed as water catchment area – frequent forest fires to control fuel loads</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 (Monterey) pine (<em>P. radiata</em>) planted by hand</li>
<li>1960: Controlled competing regrowth native vegetation, manually with axes, slashers, or hoes</li>
<li>1986: 1st rotation trees logged and crawler tractor used to snig timber off site</li>
<li>1987: Slash left on the ground to decompose - no ripping - too steep</li>
<li>1988: Roundup sprayed to kill regrowth. 2nd rotation <em>P. radiata</em> planted. NPK fertiliser spread around every seedling by hand</li>
<li>1990: Site hand cut the regrowth using brush hooks e.g. eucalypts, acacia and 1st rotation pine seedlings</li>
<li>1999: 2nd rotation pines thinned and pruned. Thinnings were left on the ground to decay</li>
<li>2003: Area burnt by severe wildfire killed all pines</li>
<li>2003: Sterile rye corn grass seed was sown across the coupe using light aircraft to stabilise erodible soils</li>
<li>2003: Killed pines and native regrowth pushed over and windrowed with a bulldozer</li>
<li>2004: Site declared minimal use - rehabilitation</li>
<li>2005: Contractors were engaged to manually remove pine seedlings - pines were defined as a weed. Other weeds not controlled</li>
<li>2005-2012: Site left to rehabilitate.</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
Rattus villosissimus (Rat) release and trapping dataset

This one file dataset contains the information on the Long-haired rats (<i>Rattus villosissimus</i>) used in this study, i.e. data that was collected between October 2011 and May 2013. It contains the exact date (Date) for when a rat was released (Trip_type Release, Trip_number 0) or trapped (Trip_type = Seasonal Trapping, Trip &gt;/= 1) in each of the two enclosures (Enclosure = Enclosure I or Enclosure II), as well as the treatments (Treatment regarding the access of cats into the enclosure: high_fence (no access for cats) or low_fence (access for cats), including information on a rats gender (Sex = M (for male) or F (for female), a rats weight (Animal_weight measured in g), body condition (Body_condition theoretically ranging from 1 (emaciated) to 5 (obese), but only categories 2 (underconditioned), 3 (well-conditioned) and 4 (overconditioned) were scored) and individual identification (PIT.ID) as well as whether they had been recaptured (New_firsttripcap_recap indicating whether the animal was new= released/ caught the very first time, was a firsttripcap = captured before, but first captured during a trapping session, or a recap = recaptured during the same trip).

Tags: Ex Situ Conservation, Exotic Animal Species, Interacting Pressures, Invasive Animal Species, Long-haired Rat, Mammals, Native Rodents, Placentals, Reintroduction experiment, Species Decline, Translocation/Re-Introduction
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve Site 2, 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 2, ACT, Australia 

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>) (McIntrye 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</li>
<li>1905: Area used for sheep grazing - continuous /set stocking</li>
<li>1920: Fallen timber collected for firewood started</li>
<li>1961: Mature trees on the site were ring barked to promote pasture grasses</li>
<li>1973: Dead and fallen trees felled for fire wood</li>
<li>1979: Bushfire burns through the area</li>
<li>1994: Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve established</li>
<li>1995: Continuous stocking with sheep grazing ceased</li>
<li>1995: Collection of firewood ceased</li>
<li>1995: Pasture improvement ceased</li>
<li>1996: Kangaroo population begins to rapidly increase</li>
<li>2006: Roo proof fence completed</li>
<li>2006: Commenced annual removal of pest species of plants and animals</li>
<li>2010: Commenced annual Kangaroo cull.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Continuous stocking, Firewood collecting, Kangaroo culling, Poisoning feral animals, Ringbarking, Sheep grazing, Spraying weeds
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Nest Box Use by Yellow-Tailed Black-Cockatoos on Kangaroo Island, 2015 – 2023

This dataset contains data on the use of nest boxes by yellow-tailed black-cockatoos on Kangaroo Island (binary response variable; 1 = used in a breeding season, 0 = not used in a breeding season) for nest boxes monitored between 2015-2017 and again in 2020-2023 and the year of monitoring. In addition to this, data was sourced via spatial analysis and remote sensing on the distance to mature Pinus radiata plantation, distance to banksia dominated habitat, and amount of native vegetation within a 10km radius to approximate human disturbance and fragmentation. The name of nest boxes is included, and each nest's spatial location can be identified by this name on a separate Kangaroo Island Landscape Board spatial dataset. The spatial location of nests has been withheld as they identify important breeding sites for endangered bird species.

Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Digital Cover Photography (DCP) from TERN Karawatha Peri-Urban SuperSite

Digital Cover Photography (DCP) upward-looking images were collected annually to capture vegetation cover at the TERN Karawatha Peri-Urban SuperSite. These images can be used to estimate Leaf area index (LAI), Crown Cover or Foliage Projective Cover (FPC). 



The Karawatha Peri-Urban SuperSite was established in 2007 and decommissioned in 2018. The site was located in Eucalypt forest at Karawatha Forest. For additional site information, see https://deims.org/f15bc7aa-ab4a-443b-a935-dbad3e7101f4 .



Other images collected at the site include photopoints and ancilliary images of fauna and flora.


Tags: Digital Cover Photography, Foliage Projective Cover, TERN Ecosystem Processes, leaf area index, seqp_karawatha
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Taroom Shire Potters Flat, 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 Potters Flat. 

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: The site was originally brigalow <em>Acacia harpophylla</em>, mixed community associated with overstorey several species, including <em>Eucalyptus coolabah</em>, <em>E. cambageana</em>, <em>Casuarina cristata</em>, and 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>1904-1929: Continuous grazing with sheep</li>
<li>1929-1932: Gradual increase in cattle numbers, decline in sheep</li>
<li>1930-1935: Land clearance via ringbarking</li>
<li>1932-1970: Almost continuous grazing with cattle - relatively low stock numbers</li>
<li>1935: Prickly pear had been destroyed</li>
<li>1940-1955: Re-clearing brigalow regrowth with axes and fallen timber burnt</li>
<li>1956-1960: Brigalow regrowth left unchecked</li>
<li>1960-1962: Brigalow regrowth pulled mechanically and burnt</li>
<li>1962-1970: Regrowth commenced restabilising without treatment or control</li>
<li>1970: Area/s designated as blocks to be left as shelter belts for cattle</li>
<li>1970: Commenced managing areas surrounding the site regrowth (i.e. shelter belt) mechanically</li>
<li>1971-2010: Areas surrounding the site regularly and intensively managed with ploughing, fertilising the pasture and cropping</li>
<li>1971-2010: Site almost continually used as shelter belt for cattle - high use.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Brigalow Pulled, Buffel Grass, Continuous or set stocking, Fire, Grazing cattle, Land clearance, Prickly pear, Ringbraking, Tree shelter belt, sheep grazing
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Hermitage Research Station, Century Format Data

Hermitage Research Station (28&deg; 12’ S, 152&deg; 06’ E) situated near Warwick, is the site of a 33 year study of carbon cycling, storage and emissions in a southern Queensland winter cereal system. Mean annual temperature at the site is 17.5&deg;C and mean annual rainfall is 685&nbsp;mm. The soil is a Vertosol containing 65% clay, 24% silt, and 11% sand. Treatments at the trial included stubble burnt (SB), stubble retained (SR), conventional tillage (CT), no tillage (NT), nitrogen fertiliser added (NF) and no nitrogen fertiliser added (N0). It has provided guidance to farmers on optimising nitrogen use efficiency through fine tuning rates to meet crop need, e.g. delivering nitrogen when it is needed by the crop possibly using split applications and coated fertilisers with slower nutrient release profiles. Sourcing nitrogen from pulse crop and pasture was also studied as an option for meeting nitrogen needs with lower emissions and reduced cost.

Tags: Hermitage Research Station, Nitrogen, Tillage, century, modeling
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW. 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 Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: The site was originally a <em>Themeda sp.</em> grassy woodland. 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1830: Grazing of native vegetation - shepherds</li>
<li>1900-1961: Fencing and continuous grazing with sheep</li>
<li>1905: Overstorey thinned by ringbarking</li>
<li>1906-1920: Continuous removal of suckers and regrowth</li>
<li>1962: Remaining larger trees pushed over with a bull dozer</li>
<li>1962-1974: Continuous grazing with cattle</li>
<li>1968-1978: Four applications of superphosphate and exotic pasture species</li>
<li>1975-1982: Continuous grazing with horses</li>
<li>1983-1984: Continuous grazing with sheep</li>
<li>1985: Continuous grazing ceased</li>
<li>1986: Commenced rehabilitation</li>
<li>1987-2008: Area lightly grazed using rotational grazing with sheep</li>
<li>2008-2010: All stock removed - increasing high numbers of kangaroos.</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
Digital Cover Photography (DCP), Samford Peri-Urban Site

Digital Cover Photography (DCP) upward-looking images are collected up to three times per year to capture vegetation cover at Samford Peri-Urban SuperSite. These images can be used to estimate Leaf Area Index (LAI), Crown Cover or Foliage Projective Cover (FPC). 



The Samford Peri-Urban SuperSite was established in 2010 in remnant fringe eucalypt forest, near urban development in the Samford Valley. The upper storey is dominated by <em>Corymbia intermedia</em>, <em>Eucalyptus siderophloia</em> and <em>Lophostemon suaveolens</em>.  For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/samford-peri-urban-supersite/ .



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

Tags: Digital Cover Photography, Foliage Projective Cover, TERN Ecosystem Processes, leaf area index, seqp_samford
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
A Survey of Animal Telemetry Projects Undertaken Throughout Australasia

The dataset catalogue information about research or management projects that have used remote devices to record behavioural, physiological or environmental data from free-ranging animals. The purpose of this dataset is to act as a conduit by which animal telemetry data, ideas, analysis and statistical tools may be shared between interested parties throughout Australasia. The animal telemetry projects collated in this dataset have been collated from peer-reviewed scientific papers published between 2000 and 2013. This represents the first-step in the creation of an Australasian focused database for animal telemetry research and management projects. If you have undertaken a telemetry project and it is not listed here, whether the study findings have been published or not, then please send details about the study to the dataset contact person. If applicable, the details will be incorporated. These data were compiled as part of the ACEAS working group project titled "Advancing the application of animal telemetry data in ecosystem management".

Tags: Animal Telemetry, Animal Tracking
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Organ Pipes National Park, Volcanic Plains Bioregion, VIC. 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 Organ Pipes National Park, Volcanic Plains Bioregion, Victoria. 

Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: Treeless basalt plain predominantly grassland dominated by Kangaroo Grass <em>Themeda triandra</em> with an array of inter-tussock species. 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1830: Indigenous people manage the area</li>
<li>1835: Sheep grazing commenced (shepherds)</li>
<li>1851: Alienated from the Crown as freehold and fenced</li>
<li>1851-1965: Area managed for dairying, an orchard and cropping and grazing modified pastures</li>
<li>1965: Agricultural production abandoned</li>
<li>1965-1986: Area minimally managed</li>
<li>1972: Organ Pipes National Park declared</li>
<li>1986-1992: Commenced species re-introduced site with supplemental plantings. Area managed to control weed and further incursions</li>
<li>1989-2003: Repeated monitoring. Area lightly grazed by rabbits and macropods</li>
<li>1993: Site burnt [prescribed fire]; supplemental re-vegetation with indigenous local species </li>
<li>1995: Site was burnt [prescribed fire]</li>
<li>1997: Site was burnt [prescribed fire] followed by drought</li>
<li>2003: Ceased monitoring and enhancement to the site</li>
<li>2004-10: Minimal intervention.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Cropping, Ploughing, Restoration, Revegetation, Sheep grazing, Weed Spraying
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Weekly Pollen Count Data for the Suburb of Casuarina, Darwin, NT

The datafile contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen in the suburb of Casuarina, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The data was collected for the period between March 2004 to November 2005 as part of a large research program looking at atmospheric particles and human health (see Stevenson et al., 2007).

Tags: weekly pollen counts
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Connectivity - 1995 to 2019

This dataset contains spatial layers describing Forest Connectivity from 1995-2019, in NSW Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) Areas along the eastern coast. Forest Connectivity accounts for the general quality of terrestrial habitats supporting biodiversity at each location, the fragmentation of habitat within its neighbourhood and how its position in the landscape contributes to connectivity among the habitats across a region.  

These have been based off the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) National Forest and Sparse Woody Vegetation Data grids (ABARES, 2020). These base grids are Landsat in origin and have a resolution of 25m.  

Forest Connectivity, including canopy cover connectivity and fragmentation is concerned and linked to forest condition.  Concepts applied are to be aligned with definitions as found in the NSW Biodiversity Indicator Program (BIP) and the Spatial Links methodology for calculating connectivity.

Base cover extent grids used are from the NSW RFA Historic Forest Canopy Cover Extent – 1995 to 2019 product. 

Read more about the project on the Natural Resources Commission website:
https://www.nrc.nsw.gov.au/accordion-content-main/fmip-ecosystemhealth-projectfe1

This dataset is superseded by 'NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program State-Wide Historic Forest Connectivity - 1995 to 2020'

Tags: Forest Condition, Forest Connectivity, Forest Cover
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP) from Daintree Rainforest SuperSite - Cape Tribulation

Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP) upward-looking images were collected annually to capture vegetation and crown cover at Daintree Rainforest SuperSite.  These images are used to estimate Leaf Area Index (LAI). 



The site is located at the Daintree Rainforest Observatory in Lowland Complex Mesophyll Vine Forest near Cape Tribulation. Flux monitoring was established in 2001 with additional monitoring capabilities added over time. The site has more than 80 species including canopy trees belonging to the <em>Arecaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Myristicaceae and Icacinaceae</em> families. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/daintree-rainforest-supersite/.



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


Tags: Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP), TERN Ecosystem Processes, fnqr_capetrib, leaf area index
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Weekly Pollen Count Data for the University of Tasmania, Hobart

The datafile contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen in the suburb of Sandy Bay (University of Tasmania), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The data was collected for the period between July 2007 to December 2010 as part of a large research program looking at atmospheric particles and human health and phenology of urban planted environments (see Tng et al., 2010).

Tags: weekly pollen counts
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery