This data contains mortality and growth metrics such as diameter at breast height, crown height and diameter for vegetation after historic disturbances including wildfires and timber harvesting.
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.
Lineage
The project incorporates a set of permanent research plots in forest regrowing following past stand-replacing disturbance events (wildfire or timber harvesting). There are six disturbance treatments in total, each represented by a 50 x 50 m plot (with 100 m external buffer) on a northerly to westerly aspect and another on a southerly to easterly aspect. These encompass regrowth forest following wildfire's in 1898, 1934 and 1966/67, as well as equivalent plots in forest that has not experienced wildfire for over 150 years (old-growth) and forest regenerating following clearfell, burn and sow silviculture in 1966 and 2000. Diameter at breast height, crown height, crown diameter and mortality status were measured for all woody individuals within each 50 x 50 m plot. For detailed methods, please see the attached Wildfire Chronosequence Project Establishment Report.
Authors
Point of Contact
Publisher
Method Documentation