<2M >2M <2M >2M <2M >2M CRYPTOGAM GREEN DISTURBED DRY GREEN IN CRUST LITTER ROCK DRY DRY BRANCH BRANCH LEAF LEAF LEAF LEAF LEAF LEAF GCM4A 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 Outcrop Alive / dead Alive / dead + In Alive / dead + gravel + growth form growth form + Canopy growth form + AusPlots Bare Y/N rock + height Y/N Y/N height sky height Note: GCM4A Ground cover monitoring for Australia project. Source: ABARES derived from Muir et al. (2011) and White et al. (2012). To derive the exposed and ground fractions from the AusPlots (rangelands) data the following steps were applied. Note that describes green or photosynthetic vegetation and “Green” “Brown” describes non-green or non-photosynthetic vegetation including litter, dry leaf or branch. Extract data AusPlots tables: studyLocationDetails + studyLocationVisitDetails + pointIntersectVegetationSpecies are linked using a sampling unit ID code e.g. 21503. From the pointIntersectVegetationSpecies extract the following fields for each site: TRANSECT POINT DEAD GROWTHFORM HEIGHT HERBARIUMDETERMINATION INCANOPYSKY SUBSTRATE Sort data by TRANSECT, then POINT, then HEIGHT decreasing Insert column TRANSECTPOINT to create a single identifier. FORMULA =TRANSECT&"."&POINT Insert column FRACTIONSUBS This column determines whether the substrate at each is bare soil (bare) or non-green vegetation (brown). Brown = litter or coarse woody debris (CWD), Bare = bare, cryptogram, rock, gravel or outcrop, NC = Not collected (substrate not visible under vegetation) FORMULA =IF(OR(SUBSTRATE="Litter", SUBSTRATE="CWD"),"Brown", IF(OR(SUBSTRATE="Bare", SUBSTRATE="Crypto", SUBSTRATE ="Rock", SUBSTRATE ="Outcrop", SUBSTRATE ="Gravel"),"Bare", SUBSTRATE)) Insert column EXPOSED
CRUST DISTURBED ROCK GREEN LEAF DRY LEAF LITTER CRYPTOGAM <2M GREEN LEAF <2M DRY LEAF <2M BRANCH IN >2M LEAF >2M DRY LEAF >2M BRANCH GCM4A 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 AusPlots Bare Y/N Outcrop gravel rock Alive / dead + growth form + height Y/N Y/N Alive / dead + growth form + height In Canopy sky Alive / dead + growth form + height Note: GCM4A Ground cover monitoring for Australia project. Source: ABARES derived from Muir et al. (2011) and White et al. (2012). To derive the exposed and ground fractions from the AusPlots (rangelands) data the following steps were applied. Note that “Green” describes green or photosynthetic vegetation and “Brown” describes non-green or non-photosynthetic vegetation including litter, dry leaf or branch. Extract data AusPlots tables: studyLocationDetails + studyLocationVisitDetails + pointIntersectVegetationSpecies are linked using a sampling unit ID code e.g. 21503. From the pointIntersectVegetationSpecies extract the following fields for each site: TRANSECT POINT DEAD GROWTHFORM HEIGHT HERBARIUMDETERMINATION INCANOPYSKY SUBSTRATE Sort data by TRANSECT, then POINT, then HEIGHT decreasing Insert column TRANSECTPOINT to create a single identifier. FORMULA =TRANSECT&"."&POINT Insert column FRACTIONSUBS This column determines whether the substrate at each is bare soil (bare) or non-green vegetation (brown). Brown = litter or coarse woody debris (CWD), Bare = bare, cryptogram, rock, gravel or outcrop, NC = Not collected (substrate not visible under vegetation) FORMULA =IF(OR(SUBSTRATE="Litter", SUBSTRATE="CWD"),"Brown", IF(OR(SUBSTRATE="Bare", SUBSTRATE="Crypto", SUBSTRATE ="Rock", SUBSTRATE ="Outcrop", SUBSTRATE ="Gravel"),"Bare", SUBSTRATE)) Insert column EXPOSED
AustGrndCovRefSiteDBaseUsrGuide20140925_v1.0.0.docx