Datasets of standing dead tree and down woody debris attributes from the multi-century Eucalyptus salubris (gimlet) time since fire chronosequence in the Great Western Woodlands, south-western Australia. These data include measures of piece sizes, densities, volumes and biomass, and have been used in the publication: Gosper, C.R., Yates C.J., Fox, E. and Prober, S.M. (2019) Time since fire and prior fire interval shape woody debris dynamics in obligate-seeder woodlands. Ecosphere 10(12), e02927. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2927 Standing dead tree and down woody debris attributes were measured with a combination of plotless and plot based approaches at 57 sites. Data collection was funded by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, CSIRO Land and Water, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network Great Western Woodlands Supersite, BirdLife Australia, The Nature Conservancy and the Thomas Foundation. Note: to access the data, select the data source link located on the right-hand side.

This data contains vegetation cover, ground cover, tree density and stand basal area data across a multi-century time-since-fire sequence derived from growth ring-size relationships in fire-sensitive Eucalyptus salubris woodlands.

The Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network Bird Point Count Data contains transect-based bird fauna data collected annually at a subset of 81 of the 175 permanent 3 hectare plots studied by the plot network in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. Fire severity scores are also collected. These data were aggregated and published in the book Lindenmayer et. al., 2014. Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction. CSIRO Publishing. p. 545. This data package is comprised of subsets of two other Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network data packages, and hence should be considered a derivative product. This is part of a much larger dataset that began in 1983, when the Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network research plots commenced. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/victorian-tall-eucalypt-forest

By quantifying the length of time after fire for obligate-seeding plant species to become reproductively mature (the juvenile period), the risk of population decline under specific fire intervals can be delineated to inform local fire and conservation management. These datasets are the spatial projections of juvenile period under recent (1990) conditions and future climate scenarios (2050 and 2090). Note: to access the data, select the data source link located on the right-hand side.

This dataset contains bird occurrence data collected at the Great Western Woodlands site between 2012 - 2017.

This dataset represents inputs for a hierarchical Bayesian model of bird population density with respect to fire history in Yosemite National Park (YOSE) and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI). The model uses avian point-count data, fire history data and biophysical metrics to assess localized bird population response to years-since-fire and burn severity at thousands of locations across these parks (Ray et al. 2025). Avian point-count time series were generated by The Institute for Bird Populations in collaboration with the Sierra Nevada Inventory and Monitoring Network (SIEN) of the U.S. National Park Service (Siegel & DeSante 2002, Siegel & Wilkerson 2005, Siegel et al. 2010). Fire dates and boundaries were provided by SIEN staff. Biophysical data were accessed from on-line repositories (LANDFIRE and LEMMA GNN). For more information, please refer to Ray et al. 2025. LANDFIRE 2020. 2020. Biophysical Settings (BPS) CONUS. LANDFIRE, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS), U.S. Geological Survey. Accessed 19 May 2023, at https://www.landfire.gov/viewer/. Ray C. 2025. SIEN birds and fire. GitHub repository, https://github.com/birdpop/firebird. Ray C, Siegel RB, Wilkerson RL, Schofield L, Tingley MW, Aronson S, Haultain S, Stock S, van Wagtendonk K. Fire gives avian populations a rapid and enduring boost in protected forests of California. Siegel RB, DeSante DF. 2002. Avian inventory of Yosemite National Park (1998-2000). Report to Yosemite National Park. The Institute for Bird Populations, Point Reyes Station, CA. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/569146. Siegel RB, Wilkerson RL. 2005. Landbird inventory for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park (2003-2004). Report to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The Institute for Bird Populations, Point Reyes Station, CA. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/627505. Siegel RB, Wilkerson RL, Goldin Rose M. 2010. Bird monitoring protocol for national parks in the Sierra Nevada Network. Natural Resource Report NPS/SIEN/NRR—2010/231. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2124954

This data contains ant species abundance, richness and functional groups sampled across a time since fire chronosequence exceeding 300 years in non-resprouting Eucalyptus salubris woodlands.

The data set contains information on plant diversity indices, species composition, vegetation cover and edaphic properties from the Eucalyptus salubris woodlands, Great Western Woodlands site. The data represents changes in plant diversity due to disturbance with time since fire in a chronosequence.

We conducted a study comparing the recovery of vascular plants in the Mountain ash forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands after various disturbances. Prior to disturbance, all sites had a dominant overstorey of Mountain Ash that had regenerated from the 1939 wildfire. Our sites covered four disturbance treatment types – two severities of wildfire (low and high severity) and two types of logging treatment (clearfell and salvage logging). Comparisons were made between the treated sites with undisturbed forest which were unlogged and unburnt since 1939. The data were collected from long term monitoring sites in 2011 following the large 2009 Black Saturday wildfire. All vascular plant species were recorded along a 100 metre transect that extended centrally down the middle of each 1.0 hectare (100 x 100 metre) study sites. Plant species presence was recorded within 5 metres either side of the transect, and in three 10 x 10 metres plots situated 10–20 metres, 50–60 metres and 90–100 metres along the central transect. Clearfelled sites were logged in 2009 as well as cut unburnt forest. Slashed areas were subsequently burnt in a regeneration burn, typically 6 months post-harvest. Salvage logging also involved clearfelling, undertaken within 12 months of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire. Forest that was salvage logged was burned at high severity. The study concluded there were important differences in response to fire and logging. Species richness declined across the ‘disturbance gradient’ from low severity burned, high severity burned, clearfell logged to salvage logged forest, and the frequency of certain functional groups (sprouting species, ferns and midstorey trees) declined across the gradient of disturbance. This is part of a much larger dataset that began in 1983 when the Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network research plots commenced. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/victorian-tall-eucalypt-forest These data were published as a component of the paper Blair et al., in press. Disturbance gradient shows logging affects plant functional groups more than fire. Ecological Applications. DOI:10.1002/eap.1369