AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes for Plot TIMA12, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2014

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 TIMA12.
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 2014. 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 (2015): Desert Uplands Plot Network, Bird Count Data and Notes, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2014. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.285/html.  
The spatial coordinates for this plot are provided in the following data publication:
Metcalfe, D; Vanderduys, E (2014): Desert Uplands Plot Network: Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates, Northern Queensland, Australia. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.167/html
The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013 and 2014.  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
Desert Ecology Plot Network: Weather Data (daily and monthly), Simpson Desert, Western Queensland, 1995–2011

This weather data package comprises weather data for automatic weather stations situated at 13 sites separated by distances of between 5 and 80 km. The weather stations record temperature and rainfall (in 2010, one weather station was set up so that it also began recording wind speed and direction). The air temperature, rainfall, wind speed and wind direction data are recorded in a data logger housed within the instrument stand. The network program uses a core of 12 sites and 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 Plot Network's full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-ecology

Tags: Climate change, On plot weather
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
Tropical Rainforest Plot Network: Rainforest Tree Demographic Data (Plot EP18), Northern Queensland, Australia, 2011–2013

The LTERN Tropical Rainforest Plot Network Rainforest Tree Demographic Data contains stem measurement data for 1 of 20, 0.5 ha (100 m x 50 m) permanent rainforest plots in Northern Queensland, Australia from 2011 to 2013. 
This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 1971 to 2013 that is managed by CSIRO. This data publication refers specifically to observations made at Plot EP18, and  this data is accessible as a composite data package at the following location:
Metcalfe, D; Murphy, H; Bradford, M; Hogan, D; Ford, A (2014): Tropical Rainforest Plot Network: Rainforest Tree Demographic Data, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2011–2013. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.90.42/html
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 the 20 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. This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 2004 to 2014; 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
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - WOLHELI Vegetation Survey

Wollemi Heli Sites 1998. The WOLHELI(Wollemi Heli Sites 1998) 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: Baumea juncea (R.Br.) Palla, Casuarina glauca Sieber ex Spreng., Disturbance, Erosion, Flora, Gahnia clarkei Benl, Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis Hochst., Landscape, Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake, Species Presence/Abundance, Vegetation Structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index: NARCliM dataset: ~10km resolution, 1950-1969 period, NNRP and R2 ensemble member

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Macarthur Forest Fire Danger index.  Modelled fire frequency projections at ~10km resolution for 1950-1969 period using NNRP and R2 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
Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network: Vegetation Survey Data, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, 2012-2013

This vegetation survey data package comprises standardized vegetation condition measurements which are repeated every three years using the vegetation structure plots (1 m x 1 m, 20 m x 20 m) nested within 1 ha sites. The vegetation survey commenced in August 2002 and much of Booderee National Park was burned by wildfire in December 2003. 
The Jervis Bay Plot Network was established in 2002 in Booderee National Park in the Jervis Bay Territory, South-eastern Australia.  The study location is a floristically diverse area in which fire history has been well-documented over several decades.
The plot network’s objectives involve quantifying the inter-relationships between natural disturbance and/or management intervention (including weed and feral animal control and prescribed burning) and the reciprocal changes in vegetation condition and biodiversity response.
The Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network study forms part of the collection of data packages by this plot network.  A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/jervis-bay-booderee-national-park.

Tags: 0501, 0502, 0602, Booderee National Park, Fire, Invasive plants, Plant species abundance, Plant species composition, Vegetation structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Relief - Elevation Range over 300 m derived from 1&quot; SRTM DEM-S

The elevation range measures the full range of elevations within a circular window and can be used as a representation of local relief. 
The 300 m elevation range product was derived from the Smoothed Digital Elevation Model (DEM-S; ANZCW0703014016), which was derived from the 1 arc-second resolution SRTM data acquired by NASA in February 2000. 
This collection includes data at 1 arc-second and 3 arc-second resolutions.
The 3 arc-second resolution product was generated from the 1 arc-second 300 m elevation range product and masked by the 3” water and ocean mask datasets.

Tags: Australia, ECOLOGY Landscape, Elevation Range, LAND Topography Models, Land Surface, Relief, TERN_Soils
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
Mean monthly shortwave radiation ratio 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:9631 . The 1 arcsecond mosaic data can be found here: https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:18731

Tags: Australia, ECOLOGY Landscape, LAND Topography Models, Land Surface, Monthly shortwave radiation ratio, TERN_Soils
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
Tropical Rainforest Plot Network: Rainforest Tree Demographic Data (Plot EP38), Northern Queensland, Australia, 2011-2013

The LTERN Tropical Rainforest Plot Network Rainforest Tree Demographic Data contains stem measurement data for 1 of 20, 0.5 ha (100 m x 50 m) permanent rainforest plots in Northern Queensland, Australia from 2011 to 2013.  
This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 1971 to 2013 that is managed by CSIRO. This data publication refers specifically to observations made at Plot EP38, and  this data is accessible as a composite data package at the following location:
Metcalfe, D; Murphy, H; Bradford, M; Hogan, D; Ford, A (2014): Tropical Rainforest Plot Network: Rainforest Tree Demographic Data, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2011-2013. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.90.42/html 
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 the 20 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. This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 2004 to 2014; 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
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - SOURRY Vegetation Survey

SOURRY-MATCHAM RD. The SOURRY(SOURRY-MATCHAM RD) 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, Alphitonia excelsa (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl) Benth., Asparagus plumosus (Kunth) Oberm., Ceratopetalum apetalum D.Don, Cinnamomum camphora (L.) T.Nees & C.H.Eberm., Cissus antarctica Vent., Clematis spp., Croton verreauxii Baill., Dianella caerulea Sims, Dioscorea transversa R.Br., Ehretia sp. (Whitfield Range R.Jago 17), Eucalyptus leucophloia subsp. euroa, Eucalyptus paniculata Sm., Eucalyptus saligna Sm., Eustrephus latifolius R.Br. ex Ker Gawl., Evolvulus alsinoides var. villosicalyx, Ficus coronata Spin & Colla, Flora, Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex Hook., Glochidion ferdinandi (Mull.Arg.) F.M.Bailey, Hedychium gardnerianum Roscoe, Lantana camara L., Maytenus silvestris Lander & L.A.S.Johnson, Morinda jasminoides A.Cunn., Myrsine variabilis (R.Br.) Mez, Nephrolepis cordifolia (L.) C.Presl, Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea, Ophioglossaceae sp., Oplismenus imbecillis (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult., Pandorea pandorana (Andrews) Steenis, Plantae sp., Podocarpus smithii, Pseuderanthemum variabile (R.Br.) Radlk., Rhaphidophora sp., Scaevola spinescens, Smilax australis R.Br., Species Presence/Abundance, Tacca sp., Toechima tenax, Vegetation Structure, Xanthosia pilosa, Xylocarpus moluccensis
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
TASMAP 1:5 000 Orthophoto Map Index

The TASMAP 1:5000 Orthophoto Map Index shows the boundaries of the 1:5000 Cadastral/Orthophoto map series which was discontinued in 1998. Attributes include the map name and number, edition number and date.
These products were never published as printed maps but available on request as film transparencies or in dyeline form. These products are no longer available.

Tags: BOUNDARIES, LAND Cadastre
Organization: Tasmania Government's The List Data
Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Phenology Studies): Vegetation (Insect flower visitors) Data, South-east Highlands, Australia, 2009-2012

The Victorian Alpine Plot Network Vegetation (Insect flower visitors) Data Package contains  phenology data which are sampled on the same dates, three times a year at transects situated at an altitude of 1400 m to 1880 m. These transects were established as a natural experiment - to provide infrastructure to validate the findings from the ATEX manipulated, experimental plots. The aim is to describe the phonological responses of alpine plants to environmental variables and assess the usefulness of this measure to assess vulnerability to changing abiotic (e.g. climate) and biotic (e.g. invasive species) factors.
This is part of a dataset that spans from during data collected in 2011 to document long-term effects directly through climate and indirectly through biotic interactions (see methods for more information).  The Victorian Alpine Plot Network research plots are revisited 4 times per year.   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: Individual plants, Invertebrates, Plant species abundance, Plant species composition, Vegetation structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - P_TOWAMFP4 Vegetation Survey

NPWS Far South Coast Region validation  Eden CRA Vegetation Map on Private Lands in Towamba and Wyndham Valleys and adjacent coast. The P_TOWAMFP4(NPWS Far South Coast Region validation  Eden CRA Vegetation Map on Private Lands in Towamba and Wyndham Valleys and adjacent coast) 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 mearnsii De Wild., Austrostipa rudis subsp. nervosa (Vickery) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett, Billardiera scandens Sm., Cassytha pubescens R.Br., Coldenia procumbens, Corchorus sericeus subsp. sericeus, Deyeuxia monticola (Roem. & Schult.) Vickery, Dianella caerulea Sims, Digitaria ramularis, Disturbance, Entolasia stricta (R.Br.) Hughes, Epacris impressa Labill., Eragrostis tenuifolia, Erosion, Eucalyptus cypellocarpa L.A.S.Johnson, Eucalyptus globoidea Blakely, Eucalyptus portuensis, Ficus fraseri, Flora, Gahnia radula (R.Br.) Benth., Geology, Glochidion philippicum, Gonocarpus teucrioides DC., Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps., Lagenifera stipitata (Labill.) Druce, Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br., Leucopogon margarodes, Lithology, Microlaena stipoides (Labill.) R.Br., Olearia erubescens (Sieber ex Spreng.) Dippel, Olearia stellulata (Labill.) DC., Persoonia linearis Andrews, Plantae sp., Poa meionectes Vickery, Podolobium ilicifolium (Andrews) Crisp & P.H.Weston, Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne, Rorippa eustylis, Rytidosperma pallidum (R.Br.) A.M.Humphreys & H.P.Linder, Sannantha pluriflora (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) F.Muell., Smilax aculeatissima, Species Presence/Abundance, Themeda australis (R.Br.) Stapf, Themeda quadrivalvis, Thunbergia arnhemica, Trachymene psammophila, Trichosanthes pentaphylla, Utricularia lateriflora, Vegetation Structure, Viola hederacea Labill., Xanthorrhoea resinosa (Sol. ex C.Kite) E.C.Nelson & D.J.Bedford
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
Nanangroe Plantation Plot Network: Bird Point Count Data, Southwest Slopes, NSW,  Australia, 2014

The Nanangroe Plantation Plot Network Bird Point Count Data contains counts of all birds seen and heard over five minute periods at each of the 0 m, 100 m and 200 m posts along a permanent 200m transect at each site.  Dawn bird counts are conducted every 1-2 years using repeated point interval counts.  Repeated point counts by two different observers on two different days are undertaken. The distance that each bird was seen/heard at is recorded along with bird abundance and any anecdotal comments (e.g. breeding behaviour). Bird species presence/absence or detection rates within 50 m of the observer is commonly used for analysis.
The principle objective of the Nanangroe study is to directly quantify changes in woodland vertebrate assemblages and their relationships with habitat variables when the surrounding landscape matrix is converted from a semi-cleared grazing landscape to a landscape dominated by an exotic softwood plantation (Lindenmayer, DB, Cunningham, RB, MacGregor, C, Tribolet, C &amp; Donnelly, CF 2001, ‘A prospective longitudinal study of landscape matrix effects on fauna in woodland remnants: experimental design and baseline data’, Biological Conservation, vol 101 no 2, p. 160).
The study area is located in the Southwest slopes of NSW west of Lake Burrinjuck and includes four exotic Pine Plantations (Nanangroe, Cotway, East Bungongo and Bungongo), as well as private properties adjacent those plantations. Repeated sampling of the vegetation structure and cover and selected vertebrate groups on all sites from 1998 has created a long term dataset. 
A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Nanangroe Plantation Forest Plot Network’s full program is provided at   http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/nanangroe-plantation.

Tags: Bird counts, Birds, Fragmentation, Grazing domestic livestock
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network (Fauna): Faunal Search (Diurnal Census for Vertebrates), Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, 2016

These data comprise a systematic search for all vertebrate fauna on each of the surveyed plots in Litchfield National Park in 2016. 
A total of 220 permanent monitoring plots were established between 1994-2002 across three parks (Kakadu, Litchfield and Nitmiluk) in the Top End of the Northern Territory, representing the Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network. A detailed flora and fauna survey has been conducted at each plot on a 5-6 year cycle to monitor biotic changes. 
Litchfield National Park contains 40 plots. In 2016, 20 plots were surveyed for terrestrial vertebrate fauna using a range of survey methods. In addition, at all plots sampling also occurred at a second plot directly adjacent to the traditional plot. 
At each paired plot 3 x 15 minute active searches were conducted within the standard 50 x 50 m trapping grid during daylight hours at different times of the day (morning, midday and late afternoon) during the 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, Litchfield National Park, Mammals, Vertebrates
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery