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Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station in ACT, Australia.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: the original vegetation for the site Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station was a temperate grassland in an ecological community dominated by native species of perennial tussock grasses.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management: Up to late 1820s the area was managed by indigenous Ngunnawal people 1830s: Area first grazed by sheep and cattle with the aid of shepherds 1860: Fences were established and continuous stocking commenced 1900: Patches of woodland areas on higher ground were partly cleared 1900-39: High likelihood of moderate to heavy grazing pressure due to sheep and cattle 1940-1993: Area managed as a naval transmission station 1940-92: Area managed for sheep grazing under continuous grazing 1970: Secure people and kangaroo proof fence established 1993: Sheep removed from the site 1995: mowers used to manage the grass 1997-2008: Kangaroo population increased to unacceptable levels 2006: Naval transmission towers demolished, area continued to have a secure people proof fence 2008: Kangaroo population culled to reduce grazing pressure 2011: Site managed for nature conservation values.

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Field Value
Title Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/dfdd1fff-9127-4fbc-840f-73986847e570
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
Sue.McIntyre@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1815 - 31/12/2010
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    149.089897,
    -35.221625
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/belconnen-naval-transmitter-station-act-vast-2-tracking-the-transformation-of-australias-vegeta