ecotas13 thurgate ausplots
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TERN's Nikki Thurgate's presentation on AusPlots at EcoTas13 in November 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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Missing Pages: Filling the Gaps in Australia’s Ecological StoryTerrestrial Ecosystem Research Network – The University of Adelaide:Nikki ThurgateCo-Authors: Ben Sparrow, Eleanor Dormontt, Stuart Phinn and Andrew Lowe
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•TERN – provides research infrastructure to Australia’s ecosystem science and management community•A range of facilities combining expertise– Remote Sensing, Soils, Biogeochemical flux, Ecological plots
•TERN is developing a framework to combine information to inform on the ecology of Australian environments•The “Field Ecology” components of TERN undertook to synthesise key findings from long term ecological research for Australia ( > 10 years of sampling)•Resulted in a book:
Context
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Chapters investigate what is know about particular ecosystems based on long term ecological research
Chapter 3 looks at which ecosystems we have reasonable sampling density, and which communities are under-represented (i.e. gaps)
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Started by gathering information on long term studies covered in book
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NB. The book incorporates data from a great many, but not all, ecological studies, and is not intended to be representative – rather what was easily available and synthesisable
Includes location and type of ecological data
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Coverage of ecological data assessed against
• Climate – Hutchinson’s Agroclimatic Zones
• Vegetation – National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) Major Vegetation Groups
• Biomes
• The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia (IBRA)
• Natural Resource Management Regions
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LogoHutchinson’s Agro-climatic Zones
Alpine
Temperate
Mediteranean
Tropical
Semi- Arid – Summer rain
Semi-AridWinter Rain
Arid
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MVG
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Hummock grasslands Acacia Systems
Chenopods
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Animate Ecoregions/NRM/Ibra
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NRM Regions
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia
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GIS analysis
Assessed all ecological sites against these ecosystem classification layers and summarised results in terms of depth of coverage
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Results - Climate
Hut
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Red – Poorly SampledYellow – SampledGreen – Well Sampled
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Red – Poorly SampledYellow – SampledGreen – Well Sampled
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Summary
Environments closer to populated areas are better monitored
Arid and Semi Arid areas poorly monitored
Spinifex Hummock Grasslands, Acacia woodlands/Shrublands and Chenopod Shrublands are
all particularly poorly monitored.
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Hummock Grasslands – 26% Aust
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Acacia Systems ~18% Aust
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Chenopods - ~9% Aust
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-More info in the book
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- More info in the book -New TERN infrastructure helping to fill these gaps over time.-Ausplots sampling in Rangelands – 500 plots
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- More info in the book -New TERN infrastructure helping to fill these gaps over time.-Ausplots sampling in Rangelands – 500 plots-Standardised nationally consistent method
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- More info in the book -New TERN infrastructure helping to fill these gaps over time.-Ausplots sampling in Rangelands – 500 plots-Standardised nationally consistent method-Electronic data collection
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- More info in the book -New TERN infrastructure helping to fill these gaps over time.-Ausplots sampling in Rangelands – 500 plots-Standardised nationally consistent method-Electronic data collection so data automatically uploaded to AEKOS and S2S
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- More info in the book -New TERN infrastructure helping to fill these gaps over time.-Ausplots sampling in Rangelands – 500 plots-Standardised nationally consistent method-Electronic data collection so data automatically uploaded to AEKOS-Development of new methods
- www.tern.org.au