Metadata details
ASAC_1187_megaherbs
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- Citation
- Whinam, J., Selkirk, P., Downing, A.J. and Hull, B. (2006) Return of the megaherbs: plant colonisation of derelict ANARE station buildings on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Division - doi:10.4225/15/5536FF87A89B1, Accessed: 2025-04-16
- Title
- Return of the megaherbs: plant colonisation of derelict ANARE station buildings on sub-Antarctic Heard Island
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.4225/15/5536FF87A89B1
- Created Date
- 2006-09-11
- Revision Date
- 2024-09-23
- Parent record
- None
Datasets and documents
- No datasets
Related links
Description
From the abstract of the referenced paper:
Buildings were constructed and artefacts left behind on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, associated with Antarctic research expeditions since 1926. Both bryophytes and vascular plants are colonising many parts of the now derelict buildings. On these structures and artefacts, the authors recorded four species of vascular plants out of the 11 that occur on Heard Island and nine species of mosses out of the 37 recorded from Heard Island. The vascular plants species most frequently recorded colonising structures and artefacts was Pringlea antiscorbutica (288 occurrences), with the area colonised varying from 0.3 cm squared to 430.0 cm squared. Mueleriella crassifolia was the moss species that was most frequently recorded (14 occurrences), colonising areas from 2.1 cm squared to 12.9 cm squared. The highest number of bryophyte species (seven) was recorded on the stone and cement of the 'water tank'. Pringlea antiscorbutica, Poa cookii, Azorella selago, Muelleriella crassifolia, Bryum dichotomum, Dicranoweisia brevipes and Schistidium apocarpum are all expected to continue to colonise the ANARE ruins, as well as areas that have become available since building removal and also possible areas bared by further degradation.
This work was completed as part of ASAC project 1187 (ASAC_1187).
Data from this experiment are stored in an excel spreadsheet in csv format.
The fields in this dataset are:
Species
Stem length (mm)
Building
Date built (year)
Growth rate (mm per year)
Quality
See the attached paper for further information.
The excel spreadsheet was manually entered from a paper copy of the data. A scanned pdf copy of the original paper copy of the data has been included in the download file.
Access
A pdf copy of the referenced paper and an excel spreadsheet of data are available for download from the provided URLs. A pdf copy of a scan of the original data sheet is also available for download.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2000-10-01 - Stop date: 2000-11-30
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > BIOMASS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > HERBIVORY
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > INDIGENOUS VEGETATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION > RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > BUILDINGS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS)
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS
Additional Keywords
- Heard Island
- building
- megaherbs
- species
- stem length
- growth rate
- ANARE
- date built
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Platforms
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
Instruments
- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
Researchers
- whinam, jennifer (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- selkirk, patricia (TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- downing, a (TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- hull, bruce (TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- connell, dave (DIF AUTHOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_1187_megaherbs when using these data.
