Gatum Pasture Flux Tower Measurements from Southwestern Victoria

Comprising flux tower measurements of energy and mass exchange between a pasture surface and the atmosphere using eddy covariance techniques. The data were processed with PyFluxPro (v3.4.15) to produce a final, gap-filled product including Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), and Ecosystem Respiration (ER). The station was established in February 2015 on private farmland in southwestern Victoria, Australia.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) and Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) to model carbon dynamics in a grazed pasture ecosystem.
• Partition Ecosystem Respiration (ER) from NEE data to study the respiration component of the carbon cycle in a winter-active perennial grass pasture.
• Use gap-filled, eddy covariance-derived flux data to validate or calibrate land surface models for pastureland in southwestern Victoria.
• Investigate seasonal patterns in energy and mass exchange fluxes under the influence of sheep and sporadic cattle grazing.

Strengths

• Data processed with a specific, documented methodology using PyFluxPro version 3.4.15.
• Provides gap-filled final products for key carbon flux variables (NEE, GPP, ER).
• Station established in February 2015, providing multi-year time series data.
• Located on a specific pasture type (winter-active perennial grasses) used for grazing in southwestern Victoria.

Limitations

• Unknown row count and column structure, limiting assessment of dataset scale and feature completeness.
• Data is geographically limited to a single pasture site in southwestern Victoria, reducing generalizability.
• Primary file formats are HTML and PNG, which may not be ideal for direct quantitative analysis without data extraction.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Flux tower measurements using eddy covariance techniques, processed with PyFluxPro (v3.4.15).

Time Range

Data collection began in February 2015; specific end date is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-20, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Private farmland in southwestern Victoria, Australia, approximately 300 km west of Melbourne.