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  1. Article: Integrating data, expert opinion and fuzzy logic in the development of an index of wetland condition

    Papas, Phil J. / Ramsey, David S. L. / Holmes, Janet / Frood, Doug / Lyon, Shanaugh

    Marine & freshwater research. 2022, v. 73, no. 10

    2022  

    Abstract: Wetlands face an intensifying level of degradation, and management to protect their extent and character is paramount. To support wetland management in south-east Australia, we developed a wetland condition assessment tool for palustrine and lacustrine ... ...

    Abstract Wetlands face an intensifying level of degradation, and management to protect their extent and character is paramount. To support wetland management in south-east Australia, we developed a wetland condition assessment tool for palustrine and lacustrine wetlands. Through extensive consultation with end users during its development, the tool, the Index of Wetland Condition (IWC), considers user needs and skills, as well as attempts to assess the complex nature of wetland systems and their inherent variability, both spatially and temporally. The IWC is structured as a hierarchical index with 13 indicators nested under six characteristics (subindices) that influence wetland function: wetland catchment, physical form, wetland soils, water properties, hydrology and biota. The contribution of each to the overall index (scored along a condition gradient) was estimated from quantitative biological and physicochemical data from 24 wetlands using a fuzzy cognitive map approach. The IWC development framework will be particularly useful in jurisdictions globally where reference condition information is limited or lacking for indicators, or where there are substantial practical constraints that limit the selection of indicators, such as management staff capability or capacity. Uptake of the IWC with wetland practitioners in south-east Australia has been substantial.
    Keywords expert opinion ; freshwater ; fuzzy logic ; research ; watersheds ; wetland management ; wetlands ; Australia
    Language English
    Size p. 1184-1195.
    Publishing place CSIRO Publishing
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1283028-8
    ISSN 1323-1650
    ISSN 1323-1650
    DOI 10.1071/MF21197
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  2. Article: Why has Phragmites australis persisted in the increasingly saline Gippsland Lakes? A test of three competing hypotheses

    Boon, Paul I / Frood, Doug / Oates, Alison / Reside, Jim / Rosengren, Neville

    Marine & freshwater research. 2019, v. 70, no. 4

    2019  

    Abstract: Common reed Phragmites australis is the dominant vascular plant species of the shorelines of the Gippsland Lakes, south-eastern Australia. Although substantial declines have been reported for over 50 years, with increasing salinity posited as the cause, ... ...

    Abstract Common reed Phragmites australis is the dominant vascular plant species of the shorelines of the Gippsland Lakes, south-eastern Australia. Although substantial declines have been reported for over 50 years, with increasing salinity posited as the cause, P. australis still occurs around the Gippsland Lakes, including in environments with near-oceanic salinities. The occurrence of P. australis in highly saline environments cannot be explained in terms of either seasonal variations in surface water salinity or a freshwater subsidy provided by intrusions of non-saline groundwater into the root zone. An experimental growth trial with plants of different provenance showed that P. australis grew vigorously even at 8–16PSU (with maximum aboveground biomass at 2–4PSU). There was some evidence that specimens from saltier sites were more salt tolerant than those from fresher sites. The selection of salt-tolerant strains is the most likely explanation for the occurrence of P. australis in saline sites. However, anthropogenic salinisation is unlikely to be the only factor involved in the historical loss of reed beds, and lower and more stable water levels following the permanent opening of the Gippsland Lakes to the ocean in 1889 are probably also contributing factors.
    Keywords Phragmites australis ; aboveground biomass ; freshwater ; groundwater ; lakes ; provenance ; rhizosphere ; salt tolerance ; seasonal variation ; shorelines ; surface water ; vascular plants ; water salinity ; Australia
    Language English
    Size p. 469-492.
    Publishing place CSIRO Publishing
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1283028-8
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    ISSN 1323-1650
    DOI 10.1071/MF18145
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  3. Article ; Online: AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Falster, Daniel / Gallagher, Rachael / Wenk, Elizabeth H / Wright, Ian J / Indiarto, Dony / Andrew, Samuel C / Baxter, Caitlan / Lawson, James / Allen, Stuart / Fuchs, Anne / Monro, Anna / Kar, Fonti / Adams, Mark A / Ahrens, Collin W / Alfonzetti, Matthew / Angevin, Tara / Apgaua, Deborah M G / Arndt, Stefan / Atkin, Owen K /
    Atkinson, Joe / Auld, Tony / Baker, Andrew / von Balthazar, Maria / Bean, Anthony / Blackman, Chris J / Bloomfield, Keith / Bowman, David M J S / Bragg, Jason / Brodribb, Timothy J / Buckton, Genevieve / Burrows, Geoff / Caldwell, Elizabeth / Camac, James / Carpenter, Raymond / Catford, Jane A / Cawthray, Gregory R / Cernusak, Lucas A / Chandler, Gregory / Chapman, Alex R / Cheal, David / Cheesman, Alexander W / Chen, Si-Chong / Choat, Brendan / Clinton, Brook / Clode, Peta L / Coleman, Helen / Cornwell, William K / Cosgrove, Meredith / Crisp, Michael / Cross, Erika / Crous, Kristine Y / Cunningham, Saul / Curran, Timothy / Curtis, Ellen / Daws, Matthew I / DeGabriel, Jane L / Denton, Matthew D / Dong, Ning / Du, Pengzhen / Duan, Honglang / Duncan, David H / Duncan, Richard P / Duretto, Marco / Dwyer, John M / Edwards, Cheryl / Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel / Evans, John R / Everingham, Susan E / Farrell, Claire / Firn, Jennifer / Fonseca, Carlos Roberto / French, Ben J / Frood, Doug / Funk, Jennifer L / Geange, Sonya R / Ghannoum, Oula / Gleason, Sean M / Gosper, Carl R / Gray, Emma / Groom, Philip K / Grootemaat, Saskia / Gross, Caroline / Guerin, Greg / Guja, Lydia / Hahs, Amy K / Harrison, Matthew Tom / Hayes, Patrick E / Henery, Martin / Hochuli, Dieter / Howell, Jocelyn / Huang, Guomin / Hughes, Lesley / Huisman, John / Ilic, Jugoslav / Jagdish, Ashika / Jin, Daniel / Jordan, Gregory / Jurado, Enrique / Kanowski, John / Kasel, Sabine / Kellermann, Jürgen / Kenny, Belinda / Kohout, Michele / Kooyman, Robert M / Kotowska, Martyna M / Lai, Hao Ran / Laliberté, Etienne / Lambers, Hans / Lamont, Byron B / Lanfear, Robert / van Langevelde, Frank / Laughlin, Daniel C / Laugier-Kitchener, Bree-Anne / Laurance, Susan / Lehmann, Caroline E R / Leigh, Andrea / Leishman, Michelle R / Lenz, Tanja / Lepschi, Brendan / Lewis, James D / Lim, Felix / Liu, Udayangani / Lord, Janice / Lusk, Christopher H / Macinnis-Ng, Cate / McPherson, Hannah / Magallón, Susana / Manea, Anthony / López-Martinez, Andrea / Mayfield, Margaret / McCarthy, James K / Meers, Trevor / van der Merwe, Marlien / Metcalfe, Daniel J / Milberg, Per / Mokany, Karel / Moles, Angela T / Moore, Ben D / Moore, Nicholas / Morgan, John W / Morris, William / Muir, Annette / Munroe, Samantha / Nicholson, Áine / Nicolle, Dean / Nicotra, Adrienne B / Niinemets, Ülo / North, Tom / O'Reilly-Nugent, Andrew / O'Sullivan, Odhran S / Oberle, Brad / Onoda, Yusuke / Ooi, Mark K J / Osborne, Colin P / Paczkowska, Grazyna / Pekin, Burak / Guilherme Pereira, Caio / Pickering, Catherine / Pickup, Melinda / Pollock, Laura J / Poot, Pieter / Powell, Jeff R / Power, Sally A / Prentice, Iain Colin / Prior, Lynda / Prober, Suzanne M / Read, Jennifer / Reynolds, Victoria / Richards, Anna E / Richardson, Ben / Roderick, Michael L / Rosell, Julieta A / Rossetto, Maurizio / Rye, Barbara / Rymer, Paul D / Sams, Michael A / Sanson, Gordon / Sauquet, Hervé / Schmidt, Susanne / Schönenberger, Jürg / Schulze, Ernst-Detlef / Sendall, Kerrie / Sinclair, Steve / Smith, Benjamin / Smith, Renee / Soper, Fiona / Sparrow, Ben / Standish, Rachel J / Staples, Timothy L / Stephens, Ruby / Szota, Christopher / Taseski, Guy / Tasker, Elizabeth / Thomas, Freya / Tissue, David T / Tjoelker, Mark G / Tng, David Yue Phin / de Tombeur, Félix / Tomlinson, Kyle / Turner, Neil C / Veneklaas, Erik J / Venn, Susanna / Vesk, Peter / Vlasveld, Carolyn / Vorontsova, Maria S / Warren, Charles A / Warwick, Nigel / Weerasinghe, Lasantha K / Wells, Jessie / Westoby, Mark / White, Matthew / Williams, Nicholas S G / Wills, Jarrah / Wilson, Peter G / Yates, Colin / Zanne, Amy E / Zemunik, Graham / Ziemińska, Kasia

    Scientific data

    2021  Volume 8, Issue 1, Page(s) 254

    Abstract: We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic ... ...

    Abstract We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxon descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of performance (e.g. photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency) to morphological attributes (e.g. leaf area, seed mass, plant height) which link to aspects of ecological variation. AusTraits contains curated and harmonised individual- and species-level measurements coupled to, where available, contextual information on site properties and experimental conditions. This article provides information on version 3.0.2 of AusTraits which contains data for 997,808 trait-by-taxon combinations. We envision AusTraits as an ongoing collaborative initiative for easily archiving and sharing trait data, which also provides a template for other national or regional initiatives globally to fill persistent gaps in trait knowledge.
    MeSH term(s) Australia ; Databases, Factual ; Phenotype ; Plant Physiological Phenomena ; Plants
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-09-30
    Publishing country England
    Document type Dataset ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2775191-0
    ISSN 2052-4463 ; 2052-4463
    ISSN (online) 2052-4463
    ISSN 2052-4463
    DOI 10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6
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  4. Book ; Online: AusTraits

    Falster, Daniel / Gallagher, Rachael / Wenk, Elizabeth H. / Adams, Mark A. / Ahrens, Collin W. / Alfonzetti, Matthew / Angevin, Tara / Apgaua, Deborah M.G. / Arndt, Stefan / Atkin, Owen K. / Atkinson, Joe / Auld, Tony / Baker, Andrew / von Balthazar, Maria / Bean, Anthony / Blackman, Chris J. / Bloomfield, Keith / Bowman, David M.J.S. / Bragg, Jason /
    Brodribb, Timothy J. / Buckton, Genevieve / Burrows, Geoff / Caldwell, Elizabeth / Camac, James / Carpenter, Raymond / Catford, Jane A. / Cawthray, Gregory R. / Cernusak, Lucas A. / Chandler, Gregory / Chapman, Alex R. / Cheal, David / Chen, Si Chong / Choat, Brendan / Clinton, Brook / Clode, Peta L. / Coleman, Helen / Cornwell, William K. / Cosgrove, Meredith / Crisp, Michael / Cross, Erika / Crous, Kristine Y. / Cunningham, Saul / Curran, Timothy / Curtis, Ellen / DeGabriel, Jane L. / Denton, Matthew D. / Dong, Ning / Du, Pengzhen / Duan, Honglang / Duncan, David H. / Duncan, Richard P. / Duretto, Marco / Dwyer, John M. / Edwards, Cheryl / Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel / Evans, John R. / Everingham, Susan E. / Farrell, Claire / Firn, Jennifer / Fonseca, Carlos Roberto / French, Ben J. / Frood, Doug / Funk, Jennifer L. / Geange, Sonya R. / Ghannoum, Oula / Gleason, Sean M. / Gosper, Carl R. / Gray, Emma / Groom, Philip K. / Grootemaat, Saskia / Gross, Caroline / Guerin, Greg / Guja, Lydia / Hahs, Amy K. / Harrison, Matthew Tom / Hayes, Patrick E. / Henery, Martin / Hochuli, Dieter / Howell, Jocelyn / Huang, Guomin / Hughes, Lesley / Huisman, John / Ilic, Jugoslav / Jagdish, Ashika / Jin, Daniel / Jordan, Gregory / Jurado, Enrique / Kanowski, John / Kasel, Sabine / Kellermann, Jürgen / Kenny, Belinda / Kohout, Michele / Kooyman, Robert M. / Kotowska, Martyna M. / Lai, Hao Ran / Laliberté, Etienne / Lambers, Hans / Lamont, Byron B. / Lanfear, Robert / van Langevelde, Frank / Laughlin, Daniel C. / Laugier-Kitchener, Bree Anne / Laurance, Susan / Lehmann, Caroline E.R. / Leigh, Andrea / Leishman, Michelle R. / Lenz, Tanja / Lepschi, Brendan / Lewis, James D. / Lim, Felix / Liu, Udayangani / Lord, Janice / Lusk, Christopher H. / Macinnis-Ng, Cate / McPherson, Hannah / Magallón, Susana / Manea, Anthony / López-Martinez, Andrea / Mayfield, Margaret / McCarthy, James K. / Meers, Trevor / van der Merwe, Marlien / Metcalfe, Daniel J. / Milberg, Per / Mokany, Karel / Moles, Angela T. / Moore, Ben D. / Moore, Nicholas / Morgan, John W. / Morris, William / Muir, Annette / Munroe, Samantha / Nicholson, Áine / Nicolle, Dean / Nicotra, Adrienne B. / Niinemets, Ülo / North, Tom / O’Reilly-Nugent, Andrew / O’Sullivan, Odhran S. / Oberle, Brad / Onoda, Yusuke / Ooi, Mark K.J. / Osborne, Colin P. / Paczkowska, Grazyna / Pekin, Burak / Guilherme Pereira, Caio / Pickering, Catherine / Pickup, Melinda / Pollock, Laura J. / Poot, Pieter / Powell, Jeff R. / Power, Sally A. / Prentice, Iain Colin / Prior, Lynda / Prober, Suzanne M. / Read, Jennifer / Reynolds, Victoria / Richards, Anna E. / Richardson, Ben / Roderick, Michael L. / Rosell, Julieta A. / Rossetto, Maurizio / Rye, Barbara / Rymer, Paul D. / Sams, Michael A. / Sanson, Gordon / Sauquet, Hervé / Schmidt, Susanne / Schönenberger, Jürg / Schulze, Ernst Detlef / Sendall, Kerrie / Sinclair, Steve / Smith, Benjamin / Smith, Renee / Soper, Fiona / Sparrow, Ben / Standish, Rachel J. / Staples, Timothy L. / Stephens, Ruby / Szota, Christopher / Taseski, Guy / Tasker, Elizabeth / Thomas, Freya / Tissue, David T. / Tjoelker, Mark G. / Tng, David Yue Phin / de Tombeur, Félix / Tomlinson, Kyle / Turner, Neil C. / Veneklaas, Erik J. / Venn, Susanna / Vesk, Peter / Vlasveld, Carolyn / Vorontsova, Maria S. / Warren, Charles A. / Warwick, Nigel / Weerasinghe, Lasantha K. / Wells, Jessie / Westoby, Mark / White, Matthew / Williams, Nicholas S.G. / Wills, Jarrah / Wilson, Peter G. / Yates, Colin / Zanne, Amy E. / Zemunik, Graham / Ziemińska, Kasia

    a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

    2021  

    Abstract: INTRODUCTION AusTraits is a transformative database, containing measurements on the traits of Australia’s plant taxa, standardised from hundreds of disconnected primary sources. So far, data have been assembled from > 250 distinct sources, describing > ... ...

    Abstract INTRODUCTION AusTraits is a transformative database, containing measurements on the traits of Australia’s plant taxa, standardised from hundreds of disconnected primary sources. So far, data have been assembled from > 250 distinct sources, describing > 400 plant traits and > 26,000 taxa. To handle the harmonising of diverse data sources, we use a reproducible workflow to implement the various changes required for each source to reformat it suitable for incorporation in AusTraits. Such changes include restructuring datasets, renaming variables, changing variable units, changing taxon names. While this repository contains the harmonised data, the raw data and code used to build the resource are also available on the project’s GitHub repository, http://traitecoevo.github.io/austraits.build/. Further information on the project is available in the associated publication and at the project website austraits.org. Falster, Gallagher et al (2021) AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora . Scientific Data 8: 254, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6 CONTRIBUTORS The project is jointly led by Dr Daniel Falster (UNSW Sydney), Dr Rachael Gallagher (Western Sydney University), Dr Elizabeth Wenk (UNSW Sydney), and Dr Hervé Sauquet (Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney), with input from > 300 contributors from over > 100 institutions (see full list above). The project was initiated by Dr Rachael Gallagher and Prof Ian Wright while at Macquarie University. We are grateful to the following institutions for contributing data Australian National Botanic Garden, Brisbane Rainforest Action and Information Network, Kew Botanic Gardens, National Herbarium of NSW, Northern Territory Herbarium, Queensland Herbarium, Western Australian Herbarium, South Australian Herbarium, State Herbarium of South Australia, Tasmanian Herbarium, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria. AusTraits has been supported by investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), ...
    Keywords biodiversity ; plant ; trait
    Subject code 005
    Publisher University of New South Wales
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Book ; Online
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  5. Article ; Online: AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

    Falster, Daniel / Gallagher, Rachael / Wenk, Elizabeth H. / Wright, Ian J. / Indiarto, Dony / Andrew, Samuel C. / Baxter, Caitlan / Lawson, James / Allen, Stuart / Fuchs, Anne / Monro, Anna / Kar, Fonti / Adams, Mark A. / Ahrens, Collin W. / Alfonzetti, Matthew / Angevin, Tara / Apgaua, Deborah M.G. / Arndt, Stefan / Atkin, Owen K. /
    Atkinson, Joe / Auld, Tony / Baker, Andrew / von Balthazar, Maria / Bean, Anthony / Blackman, Chris J. / Bloomfield, Keith / Bowman, David M.J.S. / Bragg, Jason / Brodribb, Timothy J. / Buckton, Genevieve / Burrows, Geoff / Caldwell, Elizabeth / Camac, James / Carpenter, Raymond / Catford, Jane A. / Cawthray, Gregory R. / Cernusak, Lucas A. / Chandler, Gregory / Chapman, Alex R. / Cheal, David / Chen, Si Chong / Choat, Brendan / Clinton, Brook / Clode, Peta L. / Coleman, Helen / Cornwell, William K. / Cosgrove, Meredith / Crisp, Michael / Cross, Erika / Crous, Kristine Y. / Cunningham, Saul / Curran, Timothy / Curtis, Ellen / DeGabriel, Jane L. / Denton, Matthew D. / Dong, Ning / Du, Pengzhen / Duan, Honglang / Duncan, David H. / Duncan, Richard P. / Duretto, Marco / Dwyer, John M. / Edwards, Cheryl / Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel / Evans, John R. / Everingham, Susan E. / Farrell, Claire / Firn, Jennifer / Fonseca, Carlos Roberto / French, Ben J. / Frood, Doug / Funk, Jennifer L. / Geange, Sonya R. / Ghannoum, Oula / Gleason, Sean M. / Gosper, Carl R. / Gray, Emma / Groom, Philip K. / Grootemaat, Saskia / Gross, Caroline / Guerin, Greg / Guja, Lydia / Hahs, Amy K. / Harrison, Matthew Tom / Hayes, Patrick E. / Henery, Martin / Hochuli, Dieter / Howell, Jocelyn / Huang, Guomin / Hughes, Lesley / Huisman, John / Ilic, Jugoslav / Jagdish, Ashika / Jin, Daniel / Jordan, Gregory / Jurado, Enrique / Kanowski, John / Kasel, Sabine / Kellermann, Jürgen / Kenny, Belinda / Kohout, Michele / Kooyman, Robert M. / Kotowska, Martyna M. / Lai, Hao Ran / Laliberté, Etienne / Lambers, Hans / Lamont, Byron B. / Lanfear, Robert / van Langevelde, Frank / Laughlin, Daniel C. / Laugier-Kitchener, Bree Anne / Laurance, Susan / Lehmann, Caroline E.R. / Leigh, Andrea / Leishman, Michelle R. / Lenz, Tanja / Lepschi, Brendan / Lewis, James D. / Lim, Felix / Liu, Udayangani / Lord, Janice / Lusk, Christopher H. / Macinnis-Ng, Cate / McPherson, Hannah / Magallón, Susana / Manea, Anthony / López-Martinez, Andrea / Mayfield, Margaret / McCarthy, James K. / Meers, Trevor / van der Merwe, Marlien / Metcalfe, Daniel J. / Milberg, Per / Mokany, Karel / Moles, Angela T. / Moore, Ben D. / Moore, Nicholas / Morgan, John W. / Morris, William / Muir, Annette / Munroe, Samantha / Nicholson, Áine / Nicolle, Dean / Nicotra, Adrienne B. / Niinemets, Ülo / North, Tom / O’Reilly-Nugent, Andrew / O’Sullivan, Odhran S. / Oberle, Brad / Onoda, Yusuke / Ooi, Mark K.J. / Osborne, Colin P. / Paczkowska, Grazyna / Pekin, Burak / Guilherme Pereira, Caio / Pickering, Catherine / Pickup, Melinda / Pollock, Laura J. / Poot, Pieter / Powell, Jeff R. / Power, Sally A. / Prentice, Iain Colin / Prior, Lynda / Prober, Suzanne M. / Read, Jennifer / Reynolds, Victoria / Richards, Anna E. / Richardson, Ben / Roderick, Michael L. / Rosell, Julieta A. / Rossetto, Maurizio / Rye, Barbara / Rymer, Paul D. / Sams, Michael A. / Sanson, Gordon / Sauquet, Hervé / Schmidt, Susanne / Schönenberger, Jürg / Schulze, Ernst Detlef / Sendall, Kerrie / Sinclair, Steve / Smith, Benjamin / Smith, Renee / Soper, Fiona / Sparrow, Ben / Standish, Rachel J. / Staples, Timothy L. / Stephens, Ruby / Szota, Christopher / Taseski, Guy / Tasker, Elizabeth / Thomas, Freya / Tissue, David T. / Tjoelker, Mark G. / Tng, David Yue Phin / de Tombeur, Félix / Tomlinson, Kyle / Turner, Neil C. / Veneklaas, Erik J. / Venn, Susanna / Vesk, Peter / Vlasveld, Carolyn / Vorontsova, Maria S. / Warren, Charles A. / Warwick, Nigel / Weerasinghe, Lasantha K. / Wells, Jessie / Westoby, Mark / White, Matthew / Williams, Nicholas S.G. / Wills, Jarrah / Wilson, Peter G. / Yates, Colin / Zanne, Amy E. / Zemunik, Graham / Ziemińska, Kasia / Cheesman, Alexander W. / Daws, Mattew I.

    Scientific Data

    2021  Volume 8, Issue 1

    Abstract: We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic ... ...

    Abstract We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxon descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of performance (e.g. photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency) to morphological attributes (e.g. leaf area, seed mass, plant height) which link to aspects of ecological variation. AusTraits contains curated and harmonised individual- and species-level measurements coupled to, where available, contextual information on site properties and experimental conditions. This article provides information on version 3.0.2 of AusTraits which contains data for 997,808 trait-by-taxon combinations. We envision AusTraits as an ongoing collaborative initiative for easily archiving and sharing trait data, which also provides a template for other national or regional initiatives globally to fill persistent gaps in trait knowledge.
    Keywords Life Science
    Subject code 580
    Language English
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 2775191-0
    ISSN 2052-4463
    ISSN 2052-4463
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  6. Article: Coastal wetlands of Victoria, south‐eastern Australia: providing the inventory and condition information needed for their effective management and conservation

    Boon, Paul I. / Allen, Tim / Carr, Geoff / Frood, Doug / Harty, Chris / Mcmahon, Andrew / Mathews, Steve / Rosengren, Neville / Sinclair, Steve / White, Matt / Yugovic, Jeff

    Aquatic conservation

    Volume v. 25,, Issue no. 4

    Abstract: The effective management and conservation of coastal wetlands requires an appropriate typology to underpin classification and mapping, adequate inventory information, and a robust assessment of ecological condition and threats. Extensive and ... ...

    Abstract The effective management and conservation of coastal wetlands requires an appropriate typology to underpin classification and mapping, adequate inventory information, and a robust assessment of ecological condition and threats. Extensive and floristically diverse coastal wetlands occur along much of the coast of Victoria (south‐eastern Australia), but there are serious deficiencies in all these information requirements. Previously unanalysed data from the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas were used to revise the typology currently applied to coastal saltmarsh in Victoria. To supplement the single unit currently used for State‐endorsed mapping and inventory (EVC 9 Coastal Saltmarsh Aggregate), seven new Ecological Vegetation Classes are proposed to better reflect the floristic and structural diversity of coastal saltmarsh in south‐eastern Australia. Coastal saltmarsh is currently allocated the lowest conservation status (‘least concern’) across much of Victoria, and it is recommended that this be upgraded variously to the higher categories of ‘endangered’, ‘vulnerable’, or ‘rare’. A State‐wide inventory using the new typology, prepared using recently flown, high‐resolution aerial photographs and extensive ground‐truthing (212 person‐days), indicated that there were 19 212 ha of coastal saltmarsh of all types, 5177 ha of mangroves, and 3227 ha of EVC 10 Estuarine Wetland (a wetland type dominated by Juncus kraussii) in Victoria. On‐ground assessments undertaken across 30 geographic sectors of the coast indicated that coastal wetlands were confronted by a wide range of anthropogenic threats, which in many cases were quite different from those outlined in prior reviews of Australian wetland systems. Weed invasions were especially problematic, not so much of the exotic and highly publicized Spartina in the lower levels of tidal wetlands but from a wide range of exotic taxa in more elevated saltmarshes (e.g. tall wheat grass Lophopyrum ponticum). Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
    Keywords wheat ; grasses ; conservation status ; biodiversity ; Thinopyrum ponticum ; salt marshes ; coasts ; aerial photography ; weeds ; Spartina ; vegetation ; Juncus
    Language English
    Document type Article
    ISSN 1052-7613
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