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107 Posts in ‘Land & Terrain” Found
Top 3 things that control ecosystem behaviour revealed
The prestigious journal Nature has just published a substantial international study involving TERN Australia personnel and use of TERN data. The study identified three main ...
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Soil microbiome and biodiversity implications – are we ignoring cost-effective proxies of biodiversity measures?
Environmental DNA (or eDNA) profiling is being used increasingly to analyse a range of substrates and historical samples, apparently even thin air, but what about ...
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Sydney weather and air quality data now available from TERN
Detailed time-series weather and air-quality data collected at Sydney schools are now available for download via TERN. The data collected by the Schools Weather and ...
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Students visualise Perth’s water data
Since 2011, TERN’s research infrastructure in southwest Western Australia has been helping us understand how climate, water and vegetation are interacting at the Gnangara groundwater ...
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How do we quantify Australia’s ecosystem services?
In this, our second popular science articles from TERN, Prof. Andy Lowe discusses the measures and metrics used to track the state, condition and trajectory ...
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Centre Spotlight: University of the Sunshine Coast Forest Research Institute
This month’s spotlight is aimed at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) Forest Research Institute. This group undertakes work in the broad spectrum of ...
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Site of the Month: Mitchell Grass Rangeland SuperSite
From on-ground monitoring plots, to high-tech sensor-laden towers and satellite measurements, all scales of TERN’s ecosystem observatory are coming together at TERN’s Mitchell Grass Rangeland ...
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Building a global picture of plant ecological function
An international team of scientists hoping to uncover global patterns in the relationship between a plant’s form and the environment and climate in which it ...
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Satellite calibration-validation: TERN’s runway to the world
From better weather forecasting and carbon budgeting to improved agricultural productivity forecasts, the on-ground data and research infrastructure TERN provides to space agencies, including NASA, ...
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Site of the month: Boyagin Wandoo Woodland SuperSite
This month we’re travelling to the wheatbelt region of Western Australia to visit TERN’s Boyagin Wandoo Woodland site and its paired Ridgefield Farm OzFlux site. ...
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