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Groundcover Data

Department of Planning, Industry and Environment

These data were collected as part of the NSW Grazing Study. A range of methods employed to characterise the groundcover at each of the 451 sites.

  1. An estimate of the percentage groundcover in five (5m x 5m) quadrats into the following categories; vascular plants, bare soil, litter (including an estimate of the percentage derived from groundstorey plants), biological soil crusts (e.g. cryptogams).

  2. Enumeration of the lineal metres of coarse woody debris (diameter >10cm) in five (5m x 5m) quadrats

  3. The size and abundance of perennial grasses. In five (5m x 5m) quadrats a count of the total abundance and diameter at base of twenty grass butts.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Title Groundcover Data
Type Dataset
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
Update Frequency notPlanned
Landing Page https://uatweb.datansw.links.com.au/data/dataset/b4f68bf8-93a0-4805-94dc-6f54f45f9d15
Date Published 2021-05-17
Date Updated 2021-09-07
Temporal Coverage 01/07/2013 - 30/04/2014
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Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency Department of Planning, Industry and Environment