South Australian wetlands provide data from 687 one-square-meter quadrats across 11 sites and 28 hydrological transects. The dataset contains presence-absence records for plant functional groups collected in spring 2013, matched with derived hydrological predictors calculated from continuous water-level monitoring data. Data is provided by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery platform.
Use Cases
- Modeling plant functional group distribution based on hydrological predictors like sum-exceedance value and hydroperiod.
- Analyzing the correlation between surface water dynamics and vegetation presence across different wetland complexes.
- Spatial analysis of wetland plant communities using provided xy coordinates and transect-level electrical conductivity classes.
Strengths
- Data integrates vegetation records from 687 quadrats with continuous hydrological monitoring from a state agency network.
- Hydrological predictors are calculated for annual and seasonal periods across three years prior to plant data collection.
- Includes a lookup table mapping individual plant species to their assigned functional groups.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2026-06-10 19:28:41.580168; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
- Collection Method
- Field data collection from quadrats combined with continuous monitoring from a state agency hydrological network.
- Time Range
- Plant data collected in spring 2013; hydrological data covers the three years prior.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-10 19:28:41.580168.
- Geography
- Upper and lower southeast of South Australia.