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