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Wombat State Forest Flux Data Release 2025_v1

Created 26/09/2025

Updated 03/10/2025

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This release consists of flux tower measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer using eddy covariance techniques. Data were processed using PyFluxPro (v3.4.18) as described by Isaac et al. (2017). PyFluxPro produces a final, gap-filled product with Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER). Wombat State Forest site is a secondary re-growth forest that was last harvested in 1980. Dominant tree species are Eucalyptus obliqua (messmate stringybark), Eucalyptus radiata (narrow leaf peppermint) and Eucalyptus rubida (candlebark) with an average canopy height of 25 m. The understorey consists mainly of patchy grasses and the soil is a silty-clay overlying clay. The forest is managed by the Department of Sustainability and Environment and management includes selective harvesting and prescribed burning regimes. The climate of the study area is classified as cool-temperate to Mediterranean with cold and wet winters (May-August) and warm and dry summers (December-February) with temperatures between 1 and 30 °C and mean annual air temperature of 12.1 °C. Annual rainfall is approximately 871 mm (142 year long-term average). Coherent automated measurements of soil greenhouse gas fluxes (CO2, CH4 and N2O) were collected using a trailer-mounted mobile laboratory - Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) spectrometer from 2010 to 2016. Measurement height was originally 30 m but increased to 33 m in January 2017. The Wombat State Forest Flux tower was decommissioned 09 June 2021, and a new flux tower, Wombat State Forest 2 Flux Station was commissioned on 2024-05-08. The new tower height is approximately 44.19 m.

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Title Wombat State Forest Flux Data Release 2025_v1
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/46e5b593-698b-489b-bc20-f9dba675031c
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
sarndt@unimelb.edu.au
Reference Period 20/01/2010 - 02/02/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    144.0944,
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  "type": "Point"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Wombat State Forest Flux Data Release 2025_v1". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/wombat-state-forest-flux-data-release-2025_v1