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Return of the megaherbs: plant colonisation of derelict ANARE station buildings on sub-Antarctic Heard Island

Entry ID: ASAC_1187_megaherbs

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Summary

Abstract: 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 ...

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -53.0

S: -54.0

E: 73.0

W: 72.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2000-10-01

Stop Date: 2000-11-30

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > BIOMASS

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > HERBIVORY

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

ENVIRONMENT

Platform

FIELD INVESTIGATION

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 have been included in the download file.

Access Constraints 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.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
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Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference at the provided URL when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

Heard Island

megaherbs

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 331 kb

Distribution Format: pdf, csv

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Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 3,459 kb

Distribution Format: pdf

Fees: free

Personnel

JENNIFER WHINAM

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: +61 3 6233 6160

Fax: +61 3 6233 3477

Email: jenniew at dpiwe.tas.gov.au

Contact Address:

Parks and Wildlife Service

GPO Box 44A

City: Hobart

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7001

Country: Australia

Publications/References

Whinam, J., Selkirk, P.M., Downing, A.J., Hull, B. (2004) Return of the megaherbs: plant colonisation of derelict ANARE station buildings on sub-Antarctic Heard Island. Polar Record 40(214). 235-243

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2006-09-11

Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-07-26

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