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Description

This dataset lists vegetation strata and the three most dominant species in each stratum identified at rangeland sites across Australia by the TERN Surveillance Monitoring team, using standardised AusPlots methodologies.
Vegetation strata are methodically identified at each site as part of the AusPlots Structural summary and homogeneity method. The information provided includes the type of strata found and the three most dominant species on each stratum.

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.
TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, NCRIS.

Purpose
Vegetation strata information helps understand the structure of a site and forms the basis of NVIS level 5 vegetation structural description.

Lineage

Data Creation
AusPlots Rangelands Protocols - Vegetation Stratum:

Structural summary and homogeneity

Temporal coverage

From 10/30/2010

Dates

Creation date

10/30/2010

Publication date

12/15/2021

Revision date

12/16/2024

Citation information

How to cite this collection:

Sparrow, B., Tokmakoff, A., Leitch, E., Guerin, G., O'Neill, S., Macdonald, C., Lowe, A., Flitton, R., Saleeba, T., Coish, C. & TERN Surveillance Monitoring (2021): TERN Surveillance Monitoring Program: Vegetation stratum. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. (Dataset). https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/fa6c786f-b762-42a0-9c3f-a1a7e8110bed

Access data

These data can be accessed from following links:

Access metadata

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Parent Dataset

TERN Surveillance Monitoring Program

Rights and Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Attribution and citation is required in any publication that uses TERN Surveillance Monitoring data. We ask you to send citations and copies of publications arising from work that use these data to ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au, copy esupport@tern.org.au or advise via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
These data have been released in the spirit of open scientific collaboration. Data users are encouraged to consider consultation with ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au to minimize duplication of research.

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