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    • BioSCape Vegetation Surveys Berg and Eerste River Catchments, South Africa, 2022-2023

    Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

    This dataset contains vegetation plot survey data collected at 36 sites across the Berg and Eerste River catchments in the Western Cape, South Africa collected during 2022 and again in 2023 during the 2023 BioSCape Field Collection season. Sampling protocols were designed by the BioSCape Leadership team for use by multiple teams to generate standardized and comparable vegetation plot data across sites. Each plot was circular, 10 m in diameter, and representative of the vegetation community. Species were identified at each 1-m mark along the N-S and W-E transects, totaling 42 identifications per plot. Fractional ground cover of the plot, fractional vegetation dominance, and rarefaction counts for each plot were recorded at all plots from 2023. Data from 2022 have fractional ground cover of the NE quadrant and fractional vegetation dominance. These data are provided in comma separated values (CSV) format. The boundaries of the patches where the vegetation plots were located were recorded as polygons in included Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 20, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 20, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2425
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-27
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id e2fa1fa5-05e5-4abd-84f1-4c0e2a56bfa6
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=BioSCape_VegPlots_Berg_Eerste_2425&ac=true
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":18.7788,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":-32.9962,"EastBoundingCoordinate":19.1165,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-34.2},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e1cc5f135069cfe92fa806ded73d1b4180c22298778cd772da353586798cbb28
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2022-09-19/2022-09-19

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