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LAMPS FacilityLong-term Australian Multiscale Plot System
Presentation by Prof. Andy Lowe
Purpose of Multiscale plot network
A sustainable set of long term data collection procedures and archives from plots, sites and transects across all Australian ecosystems measuring selected flora, fauna and biophysical processes, suitable for key ecosystem science questions and for developing and testing ecosystem models.
Contribute critical information for managing landscapes for biodiversity, soils, carbon and water, at local to regional scales. Quantifying continental scale climate-ecosystem interactions and feedbacks, and biome impacts: • Stocks of biodiversity and relation to abiotic and climatic variables - AusPlots• Key ecosystem drivers, particularly disturbance and climate - LTERN• Flows of nutrients and systems interaction/interdependency - SuperSites
Approach of Multiscale plot network
• Build on past at a range of different spatial and temporal scales– Map what long-term ecological work
has been completed where
• Integrate results and datasets from fine-scale local-regional question-driven long-term research with State and national-level mandated monitoring
• Activities should be clearly linkable to management activities and outcomes
• Information, both pre-existing and new should be openly accessible
TERN facilities interaction
TERN facilities
Spatial, temporal and information scales
Increasing spatial coverage
Increasing information content
Remote sensing
Survey plotsand observations
Monitoring plots
LTERs
Biogeochemical fluxes
Realtime survey of bioflux
Increasing spatial coverage
Increasing information content
Remote sensing
Survey plotsand observations
Monitoring plots
LTERs
Biogeochemical fluxes
Realtime survey of bioflux
AusCover
AusPlots
OzFlux
Supersites
ACEAS, TERN portal and Ecoinformatics
LTER network
Spatial, temporal and information scales
Increasing spatial coverage
Increasing information content
Remote sensing
Survey plotsand observations
Monitoring plots
LTERs
Biogeochemical fluxes
Realtime survey of bioflux
AusCover
AusPlots
OzFlux
Supersites
ACEAS, TERN portal and Ecoinformatics
LTER network
Multi-scale plots
Spatial, temporal and information scales
LAMPSUniversity of Adelaide
Lowe, Lindenmayer, Liddell
LAMPSUniversity of Adelaide
Lowe, Lindenmayer, Liddell
RangelandsUoA
RangelandsUoA
ForestsUtas
ForestsUtas
Plot networks
ANU
Plot networks
ANU
Transects UoA
Transects UoA
SEQ+FNQ supersites JCU/QUT
Qld
SEQ+FNQ supersites JCU/QUT
Qld
3 new supersites
JCU
3 new supersites
JCU
SupersitesJames Cook
University, Liddell
SupersitesJames Cook
University, Liddell
LTERNAustralian National
University, Lindenmayer
LTERNAustralian National
University, Lindenmayer
AusPlotsUniversity of Adelaide
Lowe
AusPlotsUniversity of Adelaide
Lowe
LAMPS structure
Rangelands plot network
Forestry plots Forestry
plots
Forestry plots
Forestry plots
LAMPS activities-AusPlots
Rangelands plot network
Forestry plots
CSIRO plotsNATT
transect
SWATT transect TREND
transect
Alpine plots
Lindenmayer and NSW plots
Forestry plots
Forestry plots
Forestry plots
LAMPS activities-AusPlots-LTERN
Rangelands plot network
Forestry plots
CSIRO plotsNATT
transect
SWATT transect TREND
transect
Alpine plots
Lindenmayer and NSW plots
Forestry plots
Forestry plots
Forestry plots
LAMPS activities-AusPlots-LTERN-SuperSites
LAMPS activities
• Overall coordination across AusPLots, LTER, Supersites and TERN facilities• Workshops and travel for development of activities and learnings• Statistician to guide design of all multiscale plot activities• Ecologist to work on integrating scales of data and learnings• Project officer to undertake ecological data scoping project and make accessible
Start up workshop - 23rd -24th March 2011
• Attendees: Stuart Phinn (UQ, remote), Andrew Lowe (UA), David Lindenmayer (ANU), Mike Liddell (JCU, remote), Jeff Foulkes (UA), Andrew White (UA), Jim Deed (UA), Craig Walker (UA), David Turner (UA), Ben Sparrow (UA), Greg Guerin (UA), David Bowman (UTas), Sam Wood (UTas), Claire Howell (DAFF), Dan Metcalf (CSIRO), David Keith (NSW, DECC), Ary Hoffman (UMelb), Stephen van Leeuwen (WA,DEC), Alan Anderson (CSIRO), Jeremy Russell-Smith (CDU), Glenda Wardle (Usyd)
• Outcomes and engagement activities– Plan for LAMPS, AusPlots, LTERN (& Supersites)– Stocktake of what we have now/questions addressed/methods/support– Papers:
• LAMPS principles• Big Questions & Answers from ecological plots• Plot husbandry and futures• State of Biodiversity report – book chapters from longterm plots – ecosystem/disturbance
– Science plan of activities• Workshop planning for Methods/Data Integration/Statistics & Design
LAMPS Contact Details
Andrew Lowe & Jim Deed – University of Adelaide (LAMPS, AusPlots)David Lindenmayer – Australian National University (LTER, LAMPS)Mike Liddell – James Cook University (SuperSites, LAMPS)