Groundcover Data

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

These data were collected as part of the NSW Grazing Study. A range of methods employed to characterise the groundcover at each of the 451 sites.

  1. An estimate of the percentage groundcover in five (5m x 5m) quadrats into the following categories; vascular plants, bare soil, litter (including an estimate of the percentage derived from groundstorey plants), biological soil crusts (e.g. cryptogams).

  2. Enumeration of the lineal metres of coarse woody debris (diameter >10cm) in five (5m x 5m) quadrats

  3. The size and abundance of perennial grasses. In five (5m x 5m) quadrats a count of the total abundance and diameter at base of twenty grass butts.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Title Groundcover Data
Type
Language
Licence cc-by
Data Status
Update Frequency notPlanned
Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/b4f68bf8-93a0-4805-94dc-6f54f45f9d15
Date Published 2021-05-17
Date Updated 2024-02-26
Contact Point
Temporal Coverage 2013-01-07 - 2014-04-30
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Jurisdiction
Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water