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Calperum Mallee Acoustic Data Collection - TERN

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This dataset contains audio files for TERN Calperum Mallee SuperSite. Long-term recordings of the environment can be used to identify sound sources of interest, characterise the soundscape, aid in the assessment of fauna biodiversity, monitor temporal trends and track environmental changes.

The site was established in 2010 and is located on Calperum Station, near Renmark, in South Australia. The property was a pastoral grazing lease for nearly 150 years, and suffered grazing-induced modifications to its ecosystems that are now being actively restored following removal of sheep in 1994. The area includes mallee woodlands and riverine vegetation. A significant amount of the mallee woodlands was burnt in January 2014. The mallee species are multi-stemmed eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus dumosa, E. incrassata, E. oleosa and E. socialis) while the sparsely distributed mid-storey species come from Eremophila, Hakea, Olearia, Senna and Melaleuca genera. The spaced understory is predominately clumps of spiny grass (Triodia spp.). For additional site information, see Daintree Rainforest SuperSite

In 2013 two acoustic recorders were set up to collect audio data for a total of 12 hours per day, split between six hours around dawn and six hours around dusk. The recording schedule aimed at capturing morning and evening bird choruses while minimizing memory and battery requirements. A long-term spectrogram has been generated for each audio file to aid in data exploration. The sensor also recorded temperature, minimum- maximum- and mean-sound pressure levels.

Data are made available through the data link. For downloading large amount of data, please follow these instructions How to download TERN's acoustic data in bulk

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Title Calperum Mallee Acoustic Data Collection - TERN
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9c50d71f-d0b1-4955-a4c5-53f9a1754d4a
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
wayne.meyer@adelaide.edu.au
Reference Period 15/01/2013 - 31/12/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    140.5877,
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  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Calperum Mallee Acoustic Data Collection - TERN". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/calperum-mallee-acoustic-data-collection-tern