AusLTER - Desert Uplands Plot Network - Australia

Basic Information
Site Name
AusLTER - Desert Uplands Plot Network
Short name
Desert Uplands (2004-2018)
Country
Australia
Web Address
Desert Uplands Plot Network (LTERN), Australia
Site Manager
Daniel Metcalfe
Chris Pavey
Funding Agency
Australian National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)
Australian Super Science Initiative
Australian National University
CSIRO (Australia) - Ecosystem Sciences
CSIRO Land and Water
Site Description
The Desert Uplands Plot Network is located in the Northern Desert Uplands of Queensland, Australia with each of the 50 (originally 60) bird monitoring plots 1 ha in size, and located at least 1 km from any other site, 500 m from any water point and 50 m from the nearest access track. As at June 2016, temporal visits have been conducted in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013 and 2014. Between 2012 and 2018 the Desert Uplands Plot Network was a member of Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN), Australia, a facility of the Australian Government's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN).
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2022-07-13 05:07:06

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2004
Observed properties
ecosystem parameterbiological parameterbirdsabundancedisturbancepatterndiversityindexplantspeciescompositionspeciesabundancespeciescompositionspeciesgroupabundancespeciesrichnessplantcoverpopulationsize
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
TERN Australia✔ (TERN-LTERN-DUP-AU-3)This site is a verified "TERN Australia" member.
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
Photos
not defined
not defined
Geographic
10 km
5 mi
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: -20.762424 Longitude: 144.688969

Size
ca. 60.00ha
Elevation (average)
343.00msl
Elevation (min)
316.00msl
Elevation (max)
370.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Terrestrial
Biome
Agricultural
Ecosystem Type
Agricultural
Desert
EUNIS habitat
Regularly or recently cultivated agricultural, horticultural and domestic habitats (I)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
24.80°C
Precipitation Annual
463.50mm
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
no experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
plot scale
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
plot within catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Equipment
Observation devices » Measurement tower » No tower on site
Data infrastructure » Data services » Data portal
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Relational database
Supporting infrastructure » Transportation » Vehicle 4WD
Supporting infrastructure » Lodging at site » No lodging possible
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (from site) » No data transmission from site
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (within site) » No within site data transmission
Equipment notes
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Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
dirt road (4WD)
Permanent Operation
Yes
Operation Notes
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Site Visit Interval
730
General Data Policy
Formal acknowledgement of the dataset providers
Data Policy Notes
LTERN encourages the sharing of data and knowledge for the long-term benefit of the research community. Data sharing should only occur within a framework where data contributors receive appropriate recognition for their work, and where data users understand, in advance, the responsibilities placed upon them when they access and/or use another?s data.

To mitigate risks associated with threatened species, LTERN's Policy was to mediate access to spatial data.
Data Policy URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
LTER Site Classification
Regular