Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Phenology Studies): Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates for Insect Flower Visitors Survey 2009-2012, South-east Highlands, Australia

Abstract: This package contains spatial data relating to the insect flower surveys conducted from 2009 to 2012. Sites were established as a natural experiment - to provide infrastructure to validate the findings from the ATEX manipulated, experimental plots. The aim is to describe the phonological responses of alpine plants to environmental variables and assess the usefulness of this measure to assess vulnerability to changing abiotic (e.g. climate) and biotic (e.g. invasive species) factors.

This is part of a dataset that spans from during data collected in 2011 to document long-term effects directly through climate and indirectly through biotic interactions (see methods for more information). The Victorian Alpine Plot Network research plots are revisited 4 times per year.

A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c11c3d283b0e

Project funding: Between 2012 and 2018 this project was part of, and funded through the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) a facility within the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.

摘要：本数据包包含2009至2012年开展的昆虫-花卉调查相关的空间数据（spatial data）。研究样地以自然实验（natural experiment）形式设立，旨在为验证ATEX操控实验样地的研究结果提供基础支撑。本研究的目标是描述高山植物（alpine plants）对环境变量的物候响应（phonological responses），并评估该指标在衡量高山植物对变化的非生物因子（如气候）和生物因子（如入侵物种）脆弱性方面的有效性。

本数据集是2011年收集数据所涉系列数据集的一部分，旨在直接记录气候及间接通过生物相互作用产生的长期效应（详见方法部分）。维多利亚高山样地网络（Victorian Alpine Plot Network）的研究样地每年回访4次。

项目资助：2012至2018年间，本项目属于长期生态研究网络（Long Term Ecological Research Network, LTERN）并由其资助，该网络是陆地生态系统研究网络（Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, TERN）旗下的一个设施，同时得到澳大利亚政府通过国家协作研究基础设施战略提供的支持。