Windmill Islands vegetation communities surveyed 2000-2013 (13 years)

• Other Authors: ROBINSON, SHARON (hasPrincipalInvestigator), ROBINSON, SHARON (processor), KING, DIANA (hasPrincipalInvestigator), KING, DIANA (processor), WASLEY, JANE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WASLEY, JANE (processor), ASHCROFT, MICHAEL (hasPrincipalInvestigator), ASHCROFT, MICHAEL (processor), WATERMAN, MELINDA (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WATERMAN, MELINDA (processor), RYAN-COLTON, ELLEN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), RYAN-COLTON, ELLEN (processor), TURNBULL, JOHANNA (hasPrincipalInvestigator), TURNBULL, JOHANNA (processor), BRAMLEY-ALVES, JESSICA ELIZABETH (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BRAMLEY-ALVES, JESSICA ELIZABETH (processor), BENNY, TAYLOR (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BENNY, TAYLOR (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; PLANTS; VEGETATION; BIOSPHERE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION SPECIES; FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT; PLANT CHARACTERISTICS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; CLIMATE INDICATORS; PALEOCLIMATE INDICATORS; BIOLOGICAL RECORDS; TREE RINGS; ISOTOPES; LAND RECORDS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; QUADRATS; CAMERAS; MICROSCOPES; TEMPERATURE LOGGERS; FIELD SURVEYS; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Casey; Robinson Ridge; Windmill Islands; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/windmill-islands-vegetation-13-years/968677; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/59d454f962bd6; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4046_Transects_2000-2013; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

This record contains a summary of all data associated with the Windmill Islands long term vegetation monitoring program, conducted between 2000 and 2013, under projects ASAC_1313, AAS_3042 and AAS_4046. This record provides information about field collections and sampling methods, as well as providing raw data for vegetation cover/health, species abundance, moisture availability and vegetation surface temperature at two sites in the Windmill Islands (ASPA 135 and Robinson Ridge). FILE: AAS_4046_Transects_2000-2013.xlsx This excel file provides a summary of vegetation community data collected between 2000 and 2013. 9 worksheets: 1. "Vocabulary" – provides a detailed description of methods, terms and abbreviations. 2. "DataCollection" – provides information about sampling, analyses and publications. 3. "Quadrat" – provides a schematic of the quadrats used in this study, providing details of the size used for photos (25 x 25 cm), sample collection (20 x 20 cm) and grid interval details. 4. "CamerasUsed" – provides information about the cameras used each field season. 5. "VegCover" – vegetation cover/health assessments of quadrat photographs using a semi-automated object-based image analysis (OBIA) protocol. 6. "Species" – species abundance assessments of vegetation microsamples. 7. "CWC" – community water content assessments as an estimate of vegetation moisture content per quadrat. 8. "d13C" – δ13C assessments as an indicator of recent vegetation submergence conditions per quadrat. 9. "Temperature" – vegetation surface temperature using field-deployed temperature loggers per quadrat. Quadrat location data at two sites in the Windmill Islands (ASPA 135 and Robinson Ridge) are provided in metadata ID: AAS_4046_quadrat_locations (https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4046_quadrat_locations). And shown in two maps which are available via the AADC map catalogue: http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=14450 http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=14451 Baseline survey was described in Metadata ID ASAC_1313_Transects_2002-03; five and 10 year surveys described in ASAC_1313_Transects_2007-08 and AAS_4046_Transects_2012-13, respectively.