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Macquarie Island vegetation and habitat surveys

Australian Antarctic Division
Travers, T., Houghton, M., Bird, J., Shaw, J. ; TRAVERS, TOBY ; HOUGHTON, MELISSA ; BIRD, JEZ ; SHAW, JUSTINE
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This dataset is a collection of vegetation surveys across a series of non-random sites on Macquarie Island. Vascular plant species cover was recorded in quadrats during the summer of 2017/2018.

This is vegetation surveys undertaken on Macquarie Island at sites of key ecological interests, as part of AAS 4305
Species cover of vascular plants, bare ground and bryophytes is documented for each quadrat. There were three different observers. Invertebrates were sampled at invertebrate site, skuas at skua site, burrowing petrel sites includes sites where burrowing petrels were absent

The data contains the following fields:
Unique quadrat identifier
Latitude of site centroid
Longitude of site centroid
quadrat: Quadrat number at each site
area: Quadrat area size either: 1m2 or 100m2
shape: Quadrat shape either: square or circle
GPSacc Whether GPS coords relates to site (y) or general area (n)
date: Date of survey
obs: Data collection by: Melissa Houghton (MH), Toby Travers (TT) or Jez Bird (JB)
Study site: Describes the motivation behind the site selection.
species: Species, taxonomic group or ground feature
cover: Cover class: 0 (not present), 1 (less than 5%), 2 (5-25%), 3 (25-50%), 4 (50-75%), 5 (75-100%)
peat_depth: Peat Depth (m)
veg_height: Vegetation height (m)

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Progress Code: completed
Statement: Some sites are missing a date but they were all surveyed in the one field season.

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Purpose
To quantify the vegetation at key sites on Macquarie Island. Some sites were established to monitor invertebrates, some were skua breeding sties. There were also sites that were part of a broader burrowing petrel habitat study, however, these sites did not always support burrowing petrels. From this dataset we aimed to quantify current vegetation coverage on Macquarie Island across non-random sites. This data was collated to enable us to develop habitat models for various terrestrial species and nesting habitat for some seabirds. The data is being used to ground truth satellite images and document vegetation change in response to rabbit eradication.

Data time period: 2017-01-01 to 2019-02-01

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AMD | AMD/AU | CEOS | EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL PLANT SCIENCE > WEEDS > NOXIOUS PLANTS OR INVASIVE PLANTS | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS) > DICOTS | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS) > MONOCOTS > SEAGRASS | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > FERNS AND ALLIES > FERNS | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS | FIELD SURVEYS | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | GPS > Global Positioning System | HABITAT | INVERTEBRATES | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND | SKUAS | biota |

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