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Wallaby Creek

Fluxnet Information
Site Name: Wallaby Creek
Description: The site is located in the Mountain Ash forests of the Wallaby Creek Catchment near Kinglake in Melbourne, Australia. The catchment is an excellent example of temperate eucalypt forest with intact old growth stands with individual trees as old as 300 years.
Status: Inactive, core measurements no longer being made
Country: Australia
Fluxnet Site Code: AU-Wac

Additional Information

Location

Location Information
Country: Australia
Coordinates:
(Lat, Long) 		-37.429, 145.18725

PI Info

Investigator Information
Investigator: Jason Beringer (Website)
jason.beringer@arts.monash.edu.au

Monash University
School of Geography and Environmental Science
P.O. Box 11A
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3800
0061 3 99 05 9352

Affiliations

Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name: OzFlux
Affiliation ID: wallabycreek
Affiliation Site Page: http://www.ozflux.org.au/monitoringsites/wallabycreek/index.html

Data

FLUXNET Determined Variables

Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevationmore info: 562m
IGBP Land Usemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
UMD Land Usemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
NPP Land Covermore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Vegetation
KGCCmore info: Cfb - Warm temperate fully humid with warm summer
LAI F/PAR Land Usemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
Investigator Provided Vegetation Typemore info: Tall cool evergreen forest (Eucalyptus regnans)
Tower Heightmore info: 110m
Plant Functional Typemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Trees

Repository

Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:2004-2006
OzFlux: http://ozflux.its.monash.edu.au/ecosystem/pub/listPubCollections.jspx

Links

Links to Additional Site Related Information
External Web Site: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/research/climate/Mountainash/index.html

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Investigator Information
Investigator: Jason Beringer (Website)
jason.beringer@arts.monash.edu.au

Monash University
School of Geography and Environmental Science
P.O. Box 11A
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3800
0061 3 99 05 9352
Location Information
Country: Australia
Coordinates:
(Lat, Long) 		-37.429, 145.18725
Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name: OzFlux
Affiliation ID: wallabycreek
Affiliation Site Page: http://www.ozflux.org.au/monitoringsites/wallabycreek/index.html
Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevationmore info: 562m
IGBP Land Usemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
UMD Land Usemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
NPP Land Covermore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Vegetation
KGCCmore info: Cfb - Warm temperate fully humid with warm summer
LAI F/PAR Land Usemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
Investigator Provided Vegetation Typemore info: Tall cool evergreen forest (Eucalyptus regnans)
Tower Heightmore info: 110m
Plant Functional Typemore info: Evergreen Broadleaf Trees
Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:2004-2006
OzFlux: http://ozflux.its.monash.edu.au/ecosystem/pub/listPubCollections.jspx
Links to Additional Site Related Information
External Web Site: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/research/climate/Mountainash/index.html
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Site Related Bibliography

Bonan GB, Lawrence PJ, Oleson KW, Levis S, Jung M, Reichstein M, Lawrence DM, Swenson SC.  2011.  Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data. Journal of Geophysical Research. 116(G2)
Mahecha MD, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Lasslop G, Lange H, Seneviratne SI, Vargas R, AMMANN C, Arain MA, CESCATTI A et al..  2010.  Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level. Science. 329(5993):838-840.
SCHWALM CHRISTOPHERR, Williams CA, SCHAEFER KEVIN, ARNETH ALMUT, Bonal D, Buchmann N, Chen J, LAW BEVERLYE, LINDROTH ANDERS, LUYSSAERT SEBASTIAAN et al..  2010.  Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis. Global Change Biology. 16(2):657-670.
LASSLOP GITTA, Reichstein M, Papale D, Richardson AD, ARNETH ALMUT, Barr A, STOY PAUL, Wohlfahrt G.  2010.  Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation. Global Change Biology. 16(1):187-208.
Wang K, Dickinson RE, Wild M, Liang S.  2010.  Evidence for decadal variation in global terrestrial evapotranspiration between 1982 and 2002: 1. Model development. Journal of Geophysical Research. 115(D20)
van Gorsel E, Delpierre N, Leuning R, Black A, Munger WJ, Wofsy S, Aubinet M, Feigenwinter C, Beringer J, Bonal D.  2009.  Estimating nocturnal ecosystem respiration from the vertical turbulent flux and change in storage of CO2. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149(11):1919-1930.
Guerschman JP, Van Dijk AIJM, Mattersdorf G, Beringer J, Hutley LB, Leuning R, Pipunic RC, Sherman BS.  2009.  Scaling of potential evapotranspiration with MODIS data reproduces flux observations and catchment water balance observations across Australia. Journal of Hydrology. 369(1-2):107-119.