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Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, ACT. 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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Metadata Created: 2023-05-10
Metadata Last Modified: 2026-08-19
How to cite this collection:
Thackway, R. (2012). Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/5088EB41EA499 
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPVAST-2 Chronology Datasheet
HTTPVAST-2 Scoring Spreadsheet
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URL
HTTPro-crate-metadata.json
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 Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve.

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

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:
  • 1819: Area managed by indigenous Ngunnawal people
  • 1826: Sheep grazing with shepherds commenced
  • 1860: Fences constructed - continuous stocking with sheep commenced
  • 1920: Fallen timber collected for firewood started
  • 1994: Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve established
  • 1995: Continuous stocking with sheep grazing ceased
  • 1995: Collection of firewood ceased
  • 1996: Kangaroo population begins to rapidly increase
  • 2006: Predator proof fence completed
  • 2008: Commenced annual removal of pest species of plants and animals
  • 2010: Commenced annual kangaroo cull.
 
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
Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, ACT, Australia. 
Temporal Coverage
From 1819-01-01 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
Firewood collecting
Kangaroo culling
Monitoring response of vegetation
Poisoning feral animals
Predator proof fence
Sheep grazing
Spraying weeds
Author
Thackway, Richard
Contact Point
Woodbridge, Grant
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
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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