Samford Valley Flux Tower Ecosystem Exchange Data

Flux tower measurements from an improved Paspalum pasture in subtropical Queensland detail the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and atmosphere. The dataset includes final, gap-filled products for Net Ecosystem Exchange, Gross Primary Productivity, and Ecosystem Respiration. It was produced by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network as part of the FLUXNET Shuttle project and released in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) dynamics in subtropical pastures using gap-filled time-series data.
• Partitioning NEE into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) components for carbon budget analysis.
• Studying the impact of urbanisation on ecosystem processes by analyzing flux data from a site 20km from Brisbane city.
• Calibrating land surface models with eddy covariance measurements of energy and mass exchange.

Strengths

• Data processed using standardized PyFluxPro and ONEFlux software pipelines as referenced in peer-reviewed literature.
• Site provides a long-term research capacity within the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF).
• Dataset is part of the coordinated FLUXNET Shuttle project, ensuring methodological consistency.

Limitations

• Specific temporal coverage, row count, and column details are unknown from the provided description.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single flux tower site in south-east Queensland.
• The provided file formats (PNG, HTML, ZIP) suggest the primary data may be bundled with documentation, requiring extraction.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Collected via eddy covariance techniques at a flux tower, processed with PyFluxPro and ONEFlux software.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Samford valley, south-east Queensland, Australia (GPS: -27.3881, 152.8778).