Litchfield Park Fire Plot Data, Monitoring the Impacts of Fire Regimes on Vegetation in Northern Australia, Litchfield Savanna SuperSite, 1997-2011

The Three Parks network was established in 1994 with the primary aim of training management staff and assisting with the development of adaptive approaches to conservation-based fire management in regional savanna systems. The full program assesses fire regimes and their impacts on plant and vertebrate biodiversity components. The program comprises two complementary elements –mapping of fire histories based upon interpretation of satellite imagery, and assessment of vegetation and faunal components at a large series of permanent monitoring plots located across respective parks. The vegetation data comprises quantitative assessment of all species in three major strata within 800 m2 plots. Faunal assessments are undertaken in the immediate vicinity of respective plots. These assessments are repeated every five years. Observations of fire incidence and severity on respective plots are undertaken annually. Data is available at: http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern.57.21/html

三公园网络于1994年成立，其核心目标为开展管理人员培训，并助力制定针对区域稀树草原系统的保护型野火管理适应方案。该完整项目旨在评估火灾制度（fire regimes）及其对植物与脊椎动物生物多样性组分的影响。
本项目包含两个互补组成部分：一是基于卫星影像解译开展火灾历史制图，二是在分布于各公园的大量永久监测样地（permanent monitoring plots）中评估植被与动物组分。
植被数据涵盖对800平方米样地内三大植被层片中所有物种的定量调查。动物调查在对应样地的紧邻区域开展。上述调查每五年重复一次。
每年对各监测样地的火灾发生情况与过火强度进行观测记录。
数据集公开获取地址为：http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern.57.21/html