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Taroom Shire Wanaringa, QLD. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Dataset Published: 2012-06-30
Dataset Last Modified: 2026-08-18
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Dataset accessed 4 times
Metadata Created: 2023-05-10
Metadata Last Modified: 2026-08-19
How to cite this collection:
Thackway, R. (2012). Taroom Shire Wanaringa, QLD. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/5088F61895DFB 
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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, Acacia harpophylla, mixed community associated with several overstorey species, including Eucalyptus coolabah, E. cambageana, Casuarina cristata, a range of understorey species, grassy woodlands and open forests.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:
  • 1860: Area used for sheep grazing by shepherds
  • 1870: Permanent fences established
  • 1875: Start of continuous or set stocking with sheep
  • 1880: Incursion of prickly pear started
  • 1935: Prickly pear had been destroyed
  • 1929-1932: Land clearance through ringbarking
  • 1929-1932: Gradual increase in cattle numbers decline in sheep
  • 1940-1955: Manual clearing of brigalow with axes issues with regrowth
  • 1960-62: Brigalow pulled mechanically and soil ploughed
  • 1962: Soil ploughed and sown to buffel grass pasture
  • 1962-65: Continuous grazing with cattle on buffel grass pasture
  • 1966-75: Soil ploughed and sown to wheat annually – cattle graze stubble
  • 1976: Soil ploughed and sown to buffel grass pasture
  • 1976-2000: Continuous grazing with cattle on buffel grass pasture
  • 2001-10: Soil ploughed and sown to wheat annually – cattle graze stubble.
 
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. This work was funded by ACEAS, a facility of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project. 
Purpose
Data not provided. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Spatial Description
Qld, Taroom Shire, Brigalow Belt South bioregion, site 1 – cropping. 
Temporal Coverage
From 1788-01-01 to 2010-12-31 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Agricultural land management
Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
Data Stream
Synthesis Product
GCMD Sciences
ECOSYSTEMS - GRASSLANDS
RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION
VEGETATION - INDIGENOUS VEGETATION
Horizontal Resolution
Point Resolution
Parameters
fire area
fire event count
green ground cover
plant functional type
plant height
soil organic matter
species richness
Project
Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Temporal Resolution
irregular
Topic
environment
User Defined
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
Author
Thackway, Richard
Contributor
Specht, Alison
Contact Point
Specht, Alison
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Resource Provider
Butler, Sarah
Thackway R. and Specht A. (2015). A system for capturing the effects of land use on vegetation condition. Science for the Total Environment, 534: 14-30
Thackway R. (2013). Transformation of Australia’s vegetated landscapes: the development of VAST-2. Zenodo
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