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Taroom Shire Wanaringa, QLD. 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 the Taroom Shire site in Queensland, Australia.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: the site was originally a brigalow, Acacia harpophylla, mixed community associated with several overstorey species, including Eucalyptus coolabah, E. cambageana, Casuarina cristata, a range of understorey species, grassy woodlands and open forests.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management: 1860: Area used for sheep grazing by shepherds 1870: Permanent fences established 1875: Start of continuous or set stocking with sheep 1880: Incursion of prickly pear started 1935: Prickly pear had been destroyed 1929-1932: Land clearance through ringbarking 1929-1932: Gradual increase in cattle numbers decline in sheep 1940-1955: Manual clearing of brigalow with axes issues with regrowth 1960-62: Brigalow pulled mechanically and soil ploughed 1962: Soil ploughed and sown to buffel grass pasture 1962-65: Continuous grazing with cattle on buffel grass pasture 1966-75: Soil ploughed and sown to wheat annually – cattle graze stubble 1976: Soil ploughed and sown to buffel grass pasture 1976-2000: Continuous grazing with cattle on buffel grass pasture 2001-10: Soil ploughed and sown to wheat annually – cattle graze stubble.

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Title Taroom Shire Wanaringa, QLD. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/60084509-acaf-4bab-9094-52fe3595fbcd
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
a.specht@uq.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/1788 - 31/12/2010
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    149.688231,
    -25.858903
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Taroom Shire Wanaringa, QLD. 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/taroom-shire-wanaringa-qld-vast-2-tracking-the-transformation-of-australias-vegetated-landscape