Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012
This Victorian Alpine Plot Network Road Transects Data Package comprises transect-based vegetation data for Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects in the South-East Highlands, Australia. These data have been used against background quadrat data to test a hypothesis about roads as vectors for dispers...
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ftands:oai:ands.org.au::1358597 2023-05-15T18:40:47+02:00 Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012 Dr John Morgan (hasAssociationWith) Dr Carl-Henrik A Wahren (hasAssociationWith) Ary Hoffmann (hasAssociationWith) Spatial: Victorian Alpine Plot Network Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data Spatial: northlimit = -36.7325; southlimit = -37.13255; westlimit = 146.4542; eastLimit = 147.30667 Temporal: From 2012 https://researchdata.ands.org.au/victorian-alpine-plot-australia-2012/1358597 https://datacommons.anu.edu.au/DataCommons/item/anudc:5860 https://doi.org/10.25911/5c10614aceb2e unknown The Australian National University https://researchdata.ands.org.au/victorian-alpine-plot-australia-2012/1358597 https://datacommons.anu.edu.au/DataCommons/item/anudc:5860 doi:10.25911/5c10614aceb2e http://anu.edu.au ECOLOGY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PLANTS EARTH SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION ALPINE/TUNDRA BIOSPHERE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS LTERN Monitoring Theme:Vegetation structure LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species composition LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species abundance LTERN Monitoring Theme:Individual plants keyword:Alpine National Park keyword:Species richness keyword:Compositional changes keyword:Weed invasion keyword:Altitudinal gradient Victorian Alpine Summit Plots Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects dataset ftands https://doi.org/10.25911/5c10614aceb2e 2020-01-05T22:19:52Z This Victorian Alpine Plot Network Road Transects Data Package comprises transect-based vegetation data for Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects in the South-East Highlands, Australia. These data have been used against background quadrat data to test a hypothesis about roads as vectors for dispersal of invasive species. Plots are located at attitudinally stratified intervals along five attitudinally-stratified transects. The transects follow major roads and management tracks in the Victorian Alps. Each road is divided into 20 altitudinal sectors in which a single plot is situated. Within each plot, all species are identified and are assigned cover scores. The Alpine Summit plots study, which commenced in 2001, forms part of the collection of data packages by the Victorian Alpine Plot Network.A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c11c3d283b0e Sampling method: The data collection protocol follows the guidelines of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN; http://www.mountaininvasions.org/). The aim is to determine which exotic (and native) species are where on mountain roadsides and are using these data against background quadrat data collected over past years and decades to test hypotheses about roads as vectors for dispersal of invasive species. Study extent: No limitations or missing units are in temporal coverage outlined in Conceptual Design. The temporal range of the dataset is predominantly 2012 but the sampling period extends into the first 10 days of January 2013. These data aim to document the distribution of exotic (and native) species from foothills to mountain summits along transport corridors. Project funding: Parks Victoria, Mt Hotham Alpine Resort. Between 2012 and 2018 this project was a part of the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN). LTERN was a Facility within the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Dataset Tundra Research Data Australia (Australian National Data Service - ANDS) |
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ECOLOGY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PLANTS EARTH SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION ALPINE/TUNDRA BIOSPHERE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS LTERN Monitoring Theme:Vegetation structure LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species composition LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species abundance LTERN Monitoring Theme:Individual plants keyword:Alpine National Park keyword:Species richness keyword:Compositional changes keyword:Weed invasion keyword:Altitudinal gradient Victorian Alpine Summit Plots Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects |
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ECOLOGY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PLANTS EARTH SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION ALPINE/TUNDRA BIOSPHERE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS LTERN Monitoring Theme:Vegetation structure LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species composition LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species abundance LTERN Monitoring Theme:Individual plants keyword:Alpine National Park keyword:Species richness keyword:Compositional changes keyword:Weed invasion keyword:Altitudinal gradient Victorian Alpine Summit Plots Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012 |
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ECOLOGY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PLANTS EARTH SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION ALPINE/TUNDRA BIOSPHERE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS LTERN Monitoring Theme:Vegetation structure LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species composition LTERN Monitoring Theme:Plant species abundance LTERN Monitoring Theme:Individual plants keyword:Alpine National Park keyword:Species richness keyword:Compositional changes keyword:Weed invasion keyword:Altitudinal gradient Victorian Alpine Summit Plots Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects |
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This Victorian Alpine Plot Network Road Transects Data Package comprises transect-based vegetation data for Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects in the South-East Highlands, Australia. These data have been used against background quadrat data to test a hypothesis about roads as vectors for dispersal of invasive species. Plots are located at attitudinally stratified intervals along five attitudinally-stratified transects. The transects follow major roads and management tracks in the Victorian Alps. Each road is divided into 20 altitudinal sectors in which a single plot is situated. Within each plot, all species are identified and are assigned cover scores. The Alpine Summit plots study, which commenced in 2001, forms part of the collection of data packages by the Victorian Alpine Plot Network.A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c11c3d283b0e Sampling method: The data collection protocol follows the guidelines of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN; http://www.mountaininvasions.org/). The aim is to determine which exotic (and native) species are where on mountain roadsides and are using these data against background quadrat data collected over past years and decades to test hypotheses about roads as vectors for dispersal of invasive species. Study extent: No limitations or missing units are in temporal coverage outlined in Conceptual Design. The temporal range of the dataset is predominantly 2012 but the sampling period extends into the first 10 days of January 2013. These data aim to document the distribution of exotic (and native) species from foothills to mountain summits along transport corridors. Project funding: Parks Victoria, Mt Hotham Alpine Resort. Between 2012 and 2018 this project was a part of the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN). LTERN was a Facility within the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) |
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Dr John Morgan (hasAssociationWith) Dr Carl-Henrik A Wahren (hasAssociationWith) Ary Hoffmann (hasAssociationWith) |
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Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012 |
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Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012 |
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Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012 |
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Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012 |
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Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Alpine Summit Plots): Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data, South-East Highlands, Australia, 2012 |
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victorian alpine plot network (alpine summit plots): lowland-to-highland roadside transects data, south-east highlands, australia, 2012 |
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The Australian National University |
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https://researchdata.ands.org.au/victorian-alpine-plot-australia-2012/1358597 https://datacommons.anu.edu.au/DataCommons/item/anudc:5860 https://doi.org/10.25911/5c10614aceb2e |
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Spatial: Victorian Alpine Plot Network Lowland-to-highland Roadside Transects Data Spatial: northlimit = -36.7325; southlimit = -37.13255; westlimit = 146.4542; eastLimit = 147.30667 Temporal: From 2012 |
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