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107 Posts in ‘Land & Terrain” Found
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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