public read uid=lindenmayer,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read uid=blair,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read uid=mcburney,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read cn=submitters,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all Mr David Blair Fenner School of Environment and Society Senior Research Officer

Fenner School of Environment and Society The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601

0439 660 996 david.blair@anu.edu.au Mr Lachlan McBurney Fenner School of Environment and Society Senior Research Officer

Fenner School of Environment and Society The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601

0401 124 929 lachlan.mcburney@anu.edu.au 1397610412979 Dr Sam Banks The Australian National University Postdoctoral Fellow Research Collaborator Wade Blanchard Fenner School of Environment and Society

Fenner School of Environment and Society The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601

Statistician We conducted a study comparing the recovery of vascular plants in the Mountain ash forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands after various disturbances. Prior to disturbance, all sites had a dominant overstorey of Mountain Ash that had regenerated from the 1939 wildfire. Our sites covered four disturbance treatment types – two severities of wildfire (low and high severity) and two types of logging treatment (clearfell and salvage logging). Comparisons were made between the treated sites with undisturbed forest which were unlogged and unburnt since 1939. The data were collected from long term monitoring sites in 2011 following the large 2009 Black Saturday wildfire. All vascular plant species were recorded along a 100 metre transect that extended centrally down the middle of each 1.0 hectare (100 x 100 metre) study sites. Plant species presence was recorded within 5 metres either side of the transect, and in three 10 x 10 metres plots situated 10–20 metres, 50–60 metres and 90–100 metres along the central transect. Clearfelled sites were logged in 2009 as well as cut unburnt forest. Slashed areas were subsequently burnt in a regeneration burn, typically 6 months post-harvest. Salvage logging also involved clearfelling, undertaken within 12 months of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire. Forest that was salvage logged was burned at high severity. The study concluded there were important differences in response to fire and logging. Species richness declined across the ‘disturbance gradient’ from low severity burned, high severity burned, clearfell logged to salvage logged forest, and the frequency of certain functional groups (sprouting species, ferns and midstorey trees) declined across the gradient of disturbance. This is part of a much larger dataset that began in 1983 when the Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network research plots commenced. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/victorian-tall-eucalypt-forest These data were published as a component of the paper Blair et al., in press. Disturbance gradient shows logging affects plant functional groups more than fire. Ecological Applications. DOI:10.1002/eap.1369 Logging Fire Mountain ash Eucalyptus regnans Disturbance Logging functional groups Vascular plants Species diversity Keywords List Vegetation structure Fire Plant species composition Logging forestry Plant species abundance Individual plants LTERN Monitoring Themes 0602 Ecology 0502 Environmental Science and Management 0705 Forestry Sciences ANZSRC-FOR Codes Earth Science>Biosphere>Vegetation>Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure GCMD Science Keywords CC-BY-4_0 Special Condition Co-authorship with the data provider (Professor David Lindenmayer) of any publication of research utilising this data is an expected outcome. The data provider requests consultation, including a summary of the proposed research and intended use before publication of research utilising this data is possible. Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia 145.477922 146.195374 -37.342523 -37.919069 2010 2012 Professor David Lindenmayer Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University Plot Leader

Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University Frank Fenner Building (Building 141), Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601

02 61250654 david.lindenmayer@anu.edu.au

The long term monitoring sites were set up from 1983 to 2011. Sites were located in different age forest, land tenures, geographic locations, and environmental factors.

Sites were selected from on-going research sites relating to clearfell logging of unburnt forest, a seeding experiment and a study of salvage logging. Existing 100 x 100 metre sites were selected from a pool of 175 such long term monitoring sites as part of the ANU Central Highlands project. Each site has a central transect. Species were observed and documented within 5 metre of central transect. Further identification of all vascular plants was undertaken within three 10 x 10 metre plots along transect at 10–20m, 50–60m and 90–100m intervals.

Transect and plots flagged

Data collected using non-invasive methods, using proformas (paper field sheet) with species marked ‘T’ (transect), 1, 2 or 3 (plots 1, 2 and 3).

Clipboard, pen, datasheet

Data is entered into database from field sheets.

Central database Vegetation sampling was undertaken between March and June. A series of experiments were undertaken across areas subjected to logging within the Central Highlands. The sites covered clearfell harvesting of unburnt forest of 1939 age, sites that were salvage logged following fires in 2009 and clearfell logged and seeded sites that were part of a larger experiment on seeding after harvesting. The sites were selected in a variety of ways, including through consultation with DELWP and VicForests. Professor David Lindenmayer Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University Plot Leader

Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University Frank Fenner Building (Building 141), Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601

02 61250654 david.lindenmayer@anu.edu.au Data Owner This research was funded by means of three grants: Australian Research Council; Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Parks Victoria; Long Term Ecological Research Network within the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network lvic_logging_data_2011-2012_p655.csv lvic_logging_data_2011-2012_p655.csv 218446 1 #x0A column , ecogrid://knb/ltern2.1072.2 uid=blair,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read uid=lindenmayer,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read uid=mcburney,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read cn=submitters,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all survey_year Year of survey nominalYear natural site_code Site code Character plot_number Plot number Character flora_descriptor Observed value Character disturbance_category Disturbance category Character treatment Treatment Character 2923 lvic_vegetation_data_2011-2012_p655.csv lvic_vegetation_data_2011-2012_p655.csv 89264 1 #x0A column , ecogrid://knb/ltern2.1073.2 uid=blair,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read uid=lindenmayer,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read uid=mcburney,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org read cn=submitters,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all survey_year Year of survey nominalYear natural site_code Site code Character plot_number Plot number Character flora_descriptor Observed value Character disturbance_category Disturbance category Character treatment Treatment LS Low severity burned HS High severity burned UD Undisturbed 1421 http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/victorian-tall-eucalypt-forest