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Issue 85, February 2019
Australia's predator highways; TERN R Package; TERN Sample Library; Pasture Productivity Survey

 
 

 
TERN - Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
 
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February 2019
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Director's update

Northern floods and southern bushfires have made for a dramatic month with respect to TERN research infrastructure. Assessing the impact of these two extreme events is still in its early days, but the positive side is that data collection has continued throughout.


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NEW! TERN data R package

Extract, prepare, visualise and analyse soil and vegetation data from over 600 Australia-wide ecosystem monitoring plots with TERN’s new R package.


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People using TERN: Keren Raiter

Sly foxes and copycats. It seems that Australia’s predators are living up to their reputations by capitalising on human-made roads for hunting. Meet the scientist who’s mapping Australia’s predator highways to inform road planning and achieve better conservation outcomes.


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Leaf waxes paint picture of past to inform future

The plant waxes contained in thousands of soil samples collected by TERN are enabling scientists to reconstruct past plant records that hold clues to predicting future environmental change.


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Pasture productivity monitoring

Do you work with pastures or grassland ecosystems? Help establish a national network for rangeland pasture productivity monitoring and modelling by completing this short survey from our friends at CSIRO.

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Key Dates
Expert Meeting on SEEA Indicators for SDGs and Post-2020 Agenda
Cambridge, England
12 - 14 February 2019
TERN involved


Natural Capital Accounting: Connecting the Pillars of Sustainability
New York, USA
5 March 2019


EGU 2019
Vienna, Austria
7 - 12 April 2019
TERN involved


TERN AusPlots Survey Methodology Training
South Australia
28 April - 5 May 2019
Hosted by TERN


International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA) Conference
Brisbane
29 April - 2 May 2019


IPBES-7 Plenary & Stakeholder Day
Paris, France
28 April - 4 May 2019


Ecological Forecasting Initiative Conference
Washington DC
13 - 15 May 2019
TERN involved
THETA 2019 (The Higher Education Technology Agenda)
Wollongong
19 - 22 May 2019


29th International Congress for Conservation Biology, ICCB 2019
21 - 25 July 2019
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


ILTER Open Science Meeting 2019
Leipzig, Germany
2 - 6 September 2019
TERN involved


International Union of Forest Research Organizations Congress 2019
29 September - 5 October 2019
Curitiba, Brazil


eResearch Australasia 2019
Brisbane
21 – 25 October 2019
TERN involved


2019 GEO Ministerial Summit
Canberra
4 - 9 November 2019
TERN involved


ESA Annual Conference
Launceston
24 - 29 November 2019
TERN involved

 
 
 
What is TERN?

TERN is Australia’s land ecosystem observatory. We observe, record and measure critical terrestrial ecosystem parameters and conditions for Australia over time from continental scale to field sites at hundreds of representative locations. This information is standardised, integrated and transformed into model-ready data, enabling researchers to discern and interpret changes in land ecosystems.


TERN delivers:
  • Ecosystem data and the programs to collect it including plot data from surveillance and targeted monitoring programs; gas, energy, and nutrient exchanges; remote sensing data; modelled data products about soil, climate, and landscape attributes; and vegetation and soil samples for physical analysis;
  • Tools for the research community including national consistent field methods, data collection apps, and data publishing tools; and
  • Data infrastructure that supports discovery, access, and re-use of ecosystem data collected by TERN and others.
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Article photo credits top to bottom: Tim Wardlaw; Mark Grant; Keren Raiter; Plantsurfer at English Wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ; Pixabay

 

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