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90-years of open-data track change in rangeland ecosystem

Data from one of the world’s longest running arid-zone ecological monitoring projects, now openly available via TERN’s infrastructure, is helping resource, land and environmental managers ...
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People using TERN: Janet Davies

A senior researcher at the University of Queensland’s Lung and Allergy Research Centre has used TERN’s collaborative networks and data infrastructure to provide the platform ...
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An app to map cyanobacteria crusts for soil management

Cyanobacterial crusts on soil surfaces promote landscape stabilisation and carbon and nitrogen fixation. This makes them important ‘ecosystem engineers’ as they cause changes in soil ...
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New nation-wide environmental condition monitoring protocols put to the test

Field trials to test the robustness of new ecosystem condition monitoring protocols being developed under TERN’s ‘Enhancing long-term surveillance monitoring across Australia project’ have just ...
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Celebrating the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia’s half-birthday!

Comprehensive nation-wide information on important soil and landscape attributes has been available via TERN’s Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia for six months now. Despite its infancy, ...
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100 years of platypus survey data now available via ÆKOS

More than 100 years of platypus observations for 277 waterways across the breadth of Tasmania are now available for download via TERN Eco-informatics’ ÆKOS data ...
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New ecosystem monitoring plots established to address biodiversity threats in WA’s Pilbara

The Pilbara Corridors project has established the first of its AusPlots ecosystem monitoring sites in the Fortescue catchment, as part of a monitoring contribution to the national ...
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The impacts of fuel reduction burns on soil greenhouse gas exchange

Researchers using TERN’s national ecosystem monitoring infrastructure have, for the first time, found that repeated fuel reduction burns in temperate forests have little long-term impact ...
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TERN announced as first Australian DataONE node

TERN has partnered with the US’s DataONE to expand the discoverability of our data. TERN datasets can now be accessed using DataONE’s OneMercury search tool, ...
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Plumbing the carbon cycle in northern Australia’s tropical savannas

Did you know that the groundwater in northern Australia can be highly acidic, compared to that of the southern part of our continent? What is ...
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