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 <givenName>Daniel  J.</givenName>
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 <organizationName>CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences</organizationName>
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 <abstract> <para>The LTERN Desert Uplands Plot Network Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates contains location data for 60 permanent 1 hectare plots in Northern Queensland, Australia.  All sites are located within extensive ironbark (Eucalyptus whitei and E. melanophloia) woodland in the Prairie-torrens creek subregion in the northwest of the Desert Uplands bioregion.  The sites extend across four leasehold cattle properties that lie within an area approximately 50km by 50km. The sites occur on alluvial sand and clay sheets, and flat sand and earth plains.  

The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2013.   A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Tropical Rainforest Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-uplands</para>
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 <methods> <methodStep> <description> <section> <title>Plot set-up</title>
 <para>The LTERN Desert Uplands Plot Network Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates contains location data for 60 permanent 1 hectare plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. The plots represent three vegetation management strategies, namely: 1) clearing (where all trees and shrubs are removed); 2) thinning (where ground and mid-storey vegetation is removed); and 3) unmodiﬁed native woodlands where signiﬁcant thinning or clearing has not occurred. Cleared sites had been chain-cleared and sown with buffel grass between 1995 and 1999.</para>
 <para>The sites are spread across four properties.  The total number of sites within each category are as follows: a) cleared vegetation (n = 10), b) thinned vegetation (n = 10) and c) unmodified vegetation (n = 40).</para>
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 <sampling> <studyExtent> <description> <para>These plots have been visited five times so far – June 2004, May 2005, August 2006, July 2008, and June-July 2013.</para>
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 <samplingDescription> <para>The speciﬁc location of the 1ha survey sites were selected on the basis that they were situated in large contiguous areas that were considered typical or characteristic of the respective vegetation management strategy. Within each property, sites are generally a minimum of 1km apart but may be within 500m of one another in some cases. At the property scale, sites are spread across a 10-15 km radius on each property.   Sites are located a minimum of 500m from any water point, commonly 50-100m from the nearest access track and that the demarcation used for site selection within the “Unmodiﬁed vegetation management” class (30-45% vs. 45-60% canopy cover), was made using crown canopy mapping based on 1996 1:250 000 aerial photography. Sites are broadly situated within the same broad Ironbark woodland community (Eucalyptus whitei, E. melanophloia). Two Queensland land zones are mapped across the four properties with sandy plains and alluvial systems each represented by two properties. One of the leaseholders (with ﬁve thinned and ﬁve unmodiﬁed sites), withdrew from the study following the July 2008 survey leaving 50 sites distributed across three leasehold properties remaining in the study.</para>
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