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Sturt Plains Flux Data Collection

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This dataset consists of measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in Mitchell Grass using eddy covariance techniques. The site is located on a low lying plain dominated by Mitchell Grass (gen. Astrebla). Elevation of the site is close to 250m and mean annual precipitation at a nearby Bureau of Meteorology site is 640mm. Maximum temperatures range from 28.4°C (in June/ July) to 39.1°C (in December), while minimum temperatures range from 11.2°C (in July) to 24.4°C (in December).The instrument mast is 5 meters tall. Heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide measurements are taken using the open-path eddy flux technique. Temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall and net radiation are measured. Soil heat fluxes are measured and soil moisture content is gathered using time domain reflectometry.Ancillary measurements taken at the site include LAI, leaf-scale physiological properties (gas exchange, leaf isotope ratios, N and chlorophyll concentrations), vegetation optical properties and soil physical properties. Airborne based remote sensing (Lidar and hyperspectral measurements) was carried out across the transect in September 2008. Biomass Harvest - mean live biomass: 0.00 gm-2 (standard error: 0.00) , mean standing dead biomass: 163.42 gm-2 (standard error: 16.73), mean litter biomass: 148.99 gm-2 (standard error: 21.32), total mean biomass: 312.40 gm-2 (standard error: 30.80), Soil- Clay: 14.47% (volume <1µm), Silt: 51.23% (volume <1µm), Sand: 34.30% (volume <1µm), Sand (>1 µm): 1.02% (total weight).This data is also available at http://data.ozflux.org.au .

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Title Sturt Plains Flux Data Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f3d4f1cd-6afc-4e0e-8fa9-14530c996003
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
jason.beringer@uwa.edu.au
Reference Period 28/08/2008
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    133.3502,
    -17.1507
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Sturt Plains Flux Data Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/sturt-plains-flux-data-collection