The Management Event collection for the ALTAR site Desert Uplands 2 provides a spatiotemporal summary of significant land management events in the managed agroecosystem. In cropping and grazing lands, management events, for example, grazing, tillage, mechanical harvest and burning often represent either (1) a considerable lateral transport of carbon and water from the monitored ecosystem or (2) a period when assumptions of the eddy covariance technique may not be met. Correct capture of these events also enables a valuable opportunity to improve understanding on management effects. For integration into simulation models, historical management event insight may be crucial, but sources may be highly uncertain. In practice, management event records are often inconsistent between producers and contain sensitive information – to enable sharing and analysis across multiple sites, ALTAR network processing involves translation and denaturing of this information before publication. Access to this dataset is available on request subject to agreement.
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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 research site is managed by the Queensland University of Technology.
Data was collected on Indigenous freehold land under the custodianship of YACHATDAC. The lands where this data was collected is on the traditional lands of the Iningai people. As both the landholder and traditional owner, TERN, ALTAR and QUT recognise the cultural rights and Indigenous data sovereignty of the Iningai people in relation to this data and research activities.
This work is jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project with co-investment by the Queensland Government Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF).
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.
