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TERN Ecosystem Surveillance: Land Surface Substrate

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This dataset lists land surface substrate characteristics observed in Rangeland sites across Australia by the TERN Surveillance Monitoring team, using standardised AusPlots methodologies.

Land surface substrate observations are collected at each site as part of the AusPlots Point intercept method. At each site, observations on the substrate type (e.g. rock, coarse woody debris, litter) are recorded on transect laid out on the plots. These records form the basis for ground cover derivation, see the AusPlots Ground cover and Point intercept methods below.

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Title TERN Ecosystem Surveillance: Land Surface Substrate
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5ae2c494-fda1-4b1a-ab56-5c449a5ed2d3
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
donna.lewis@adelaide.edu.au
Reference Period 30/10/2010
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
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        112.851083,
        -43.961191
      ],
      [
        154.335184,
        -43.961191
      ],
      [
        154.335184,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        112.851083,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        112.851083,
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      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "TERN Ecosystem Surveillance: Land Surface Substrate". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/tern-ecosystem-surveillance-land-surface-substrate