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Dataset for abiotic and biotic responses to woody debris additions in restored old fields in a MBACI experiment

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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Experimental sites were established in the northern wheat-growing district of western Australia (Lat -29.66°, Long 116.18°) in August 2017, and monitored through to November 2019. We selected five planted old field sites with similar soil types and vegetation composition. Old fields were planted with York gum (Eucalyptus loxophleba Benth.) and dominant shrubs as understorey. At the time of sampling in 2017, vegetation age ranged from 8–13 years and distance from remnant measured 279 m (± 162 m). We established two control and two treatment plots, each measuring 5 m x 5 m, in the interrows of five planted old field sites. Both treatments were randomly assigned to plots within each site. Between August and early November 2017, we measured a total of 30 response variables at each of the control and treatment plots. Response variables included soil physical and chemical properties (bulk density, penetration resistance, soil moisture, nitrogen and carbon pools), microbial biomass, decomposition rate of roiboos and green tea as per the standardized Tea Bag Index (TBI) protocol, herbaceous vegetation cover and richness, and ant abundance and richness, as well as abundance and richness of ant functional groups.

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Title Dataset for abiotic and biotic responses to woody debris additions in restored old fields in a MBACI experiment
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/61ae17cf-37d0-4144-a636-10273974f983
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
tina.parkhurst@murdoch.edu.au
Reference Period 01/06/2017 - 30/11/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Dataset for abiotic and biotic responses to woody debris additions in restored old fields in a MBACI experiment". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/dataset-for-abiotic-and-biotic-responses-to-woody-debris-additions-in-restored-old-fields-in-a-