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Australia’s environment in 2019
Temperatures up, rainfall down, and the destruction of vegetation and ecosystems by drought, fire and land clearing continued. That is the main conclusion from Australia’s ...
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Investigating carbon, water and energy fluxes in agricultural systems of Australia and New Zealand
New science using TERN assesses the impact land management intensity has on carbon stocks and flow, plant water use and heat stress. Read the results ...
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Prototype paves way for near-instantaneous maps of vegetation productivity and stress
TERN is testing prototype plant fluorescence sensors at its NCRIS-enabled ecosystem monitoring sites. Early results indicate that accurate Australia-wide hourly data on environmental stress, such ...
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A tour of TERN’s Snowy Mountains research SuperSite
In December 2019, government agencies and international science organisations joined local community members for a guided tour of TERN’s Tumbarumba SuperSite—one of the world's most ...
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A new era in biodiversity science: linking integrated space-based and in-situ observations
We’re on the verge of an exciting new era in biodiversity science that will allow the characterisation and monitoring of global biodiversity like never before. ...
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People using TERN: Marie Yee
Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s senior conservation planner is using the ecological understandings generated from the TERN Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite—Australia’s oldest LTER site—to develop a landscape ...
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Treetop to bedrock: understanding resilience of Australia’s Critical Zone to human impact
An interdisciplinary team is developing Australia’s first Critical Zone Observatories Strategy — the first step towards providing a robust, long-term framework for more effective and ...
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Drought’s impact on the environment
Researchers are using TERN’s long-term landscape monitoring sites to take part in a landmark global experiment that investigates ecosystem response to drought. The experiment’s findings ...
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Earth as an integrated system: don’t forget the groundwater
Water—or the lack of it!—is always a topic of interest to Australians, living and working as we do on the driest inhabited continent on Earth. ...
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