Department of Planning, Industry and Environment

Groundcover Data

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 Source:
  • SEED
Data and Resources
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Data Quality Statement
XLSX
The NSW Grazing Study Ground Stratum Cover
Additional Information
Field Value
Title Groundcover Data
Date Published 17/05/2021
Last Updated 07/09/2021
Publisher/Agency Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
Update Frequency notPlanned
Temporal Coverage -
Geospatial Coverage
Data Portal SEED