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Hermitage Research Station, Century Format Data 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Dataset Created: 1889-01-01
Dataset Published: 2012-06-30
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URLHTTPHermitage Weather dataHTTPro-crate-metadata.json
How to cite this collection:
Thornton, C. & Dalal, R. (2012). Hermitage Research Station, Century Format Data. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.25901/fhfq-fv04 
Hermitage Research Station (28° 12’ S, 152° 06’ E) situated near Warwick, is the site of a 33 year study of carbon cycling, storage and emissions in a southern Queensland winter cereal system. Mean annual temperature at the site is 17.5°C and mean annual rainfall is 685 mm. The soil is a Vertosol containing 65% clay, 24% silt, and 11% sand. Treatments at the trial included stubble burnt (SB), stubble retained (SR), conventional tillage (CT), no tillage (NT), nitrogen fertiliser added (NF) and no nitrogen fertiliser added (N0). It has provided guidance to farmers on optimising nitrogen use efficiency through fine tuning rates to meet crop need, e.g. delivering nitrogen when it is needed by the crop possibly using split applications and coated fertilisers with slower nutrient release profiles. Sourcing nitrogen from pulse crop and pasture was also studied as an option for meeting nitrogen needs with lower emissions and reduced cost. 
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
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Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Hermitage Research Station.
Temporal Coverage
From 1889-01-01 to 2011-12-31 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Agricultural land management
Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
GCMD Sciences
AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE - NITROGEN
Horizontal Resolution
Point Resolution
Parameters
maximum temperature
minimum temperature
rainfall amount
Temporal Resolution
Annual
Topic
environment
User Defined
century
Hermitage Research Station
modeling
Nitrogen
Tillage
Author
Thornton, Craig
Dalal, Ram
Custodian
McCafferty, Siobhann
Contact Point
McCafferty, Siobhann
Thornton, Craig
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Henry B., Carter J. O., Dalal R., Slattery B., Hunt L., Moore A., Thornton C., Cowley R., Reeves S., Unkovich M., Parton B., Eckard R., Farquahrson R., Rowlings D., Grace P., Conant R. (2013). Improving long-term predictions of carbon and nutrient dynamics in Australia’s agro-ecosystems. Zenodo
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