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Big Scrub, Tintenbar, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

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The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Big Scrub, Tintenbar site.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: The site was originally lowland subtropical rainforest on basalt-derived and alluvial soils below 250 m asl and further than 2 km from the coast.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management: 1788: Indigenous land management - Goori people 1823-25: Explorers Oxley followed by Rous traversed the area 1842: Cedar getters ‘moved in’ 1870: Portion or survey plan prepared for the Tintenbar property 1880: Camphor was planted as a shade tree in Lismore 1880s along streets 1885: Brush had been largely selected and slightly cleared 1900: Clearing done with brush hooks. Small trees were cut down with an axe and large trees were cut down using a cross-cut saw. Brush and fallen timber was burnt 1900: Basalt rock removed from paddocks and placed around borders as field stone fencing, Paddock cleared of floaters so it could be ploughed 1901: Aggressive pasture grasses established. Initially this was Paspalum 1901-1978: Dairying and pasture improvement - mainly Kikuyu and fertiliser added 1968: Observed incursions of camphor in creeks and gullies but not removed or controlled 1979: Changed from dairying to beef cattle production 1980-87: Cattle removed - destocked 1981-87: Observed incursions of weeds into the former dairy pasture including lantana, barna or elephant (Pennisetum purpureum) grass and tobacco bush and some camphor but not removed or controlled 1988: Commenced agisting cattle 1990-93: Agisted horses and cattle 1993: Ceased agisting cattle and horses 1994-2011: Dense stands of camphor left unchecked.

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Title Big Scrub, Tintenbar, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/454bc3ad-16d8-4bd1-a98b-d171fb87575c
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
rthackway@netspeed.com.au
Reference Period 01/01/1823 - 31/12/2011
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    153.509022,
    -28.800003
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Big Scrub, Tintenbar, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/big-scrub-tintenbar-nsw-vast-2-tracking-the-transformation-of-australias-vegetated-landscapes