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Australian fire patterns determined by tropical monsoons

An area of alpine ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) burnt and killed during the catastrophic fires in the Australian Alps in 2003 The pattern of bushfires in Australia ...
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Fire, giant eucalypts and the evolution of Australian forests

It’s a truism that fire is a driver of ecosystem function, and indeed ecosystem evolution, in Australia. Yet it’s surprising how little we still understand ...
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Characterising fire in northern Australia

Using AusCover’s data infrastructure, a new research project is helping to improve our understanding of the environmental variables that drive fire in northern Australia. After ...
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Ecology’s latest recruits: mobile citizens and their mobile phones

Citizen science in South Australia takes an exciting step forward this month with the launch of the TREND program’s mobile app. The program, Transects for ...
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Discovering Australia’s ecosystem data: release of the TERN Data Discovery Portal

‘This is a significant step towards making ecosystem data more accessible to the ecosystem science community,’ said TERN Director, Prof Tim Clancy, as he announced ...
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App turns soil data into information on the go

People can get data and information on the soil they are standing on, thanks to an app developed by several national research organisations. The app, ...
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Rangelands survey school in Western Australia: field report

Researchers and managers from all corners of the continent converged on the Great Western Woodlands Supersite this month, on Credo Station approximately 70 km from ...
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A quiet revolution – a case study on the value of TERN

A southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus), one of the species of Australian mammal included in Nerissa’s work on species distribution models (Photo courtesy of Ray ...
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Persistence pays off for AusCover and partners

The Persistent Green-Vegetation Fraction 2000–2010 across Australia, which has been developed by AusCover in collaboration with a range of state, territory and Commonwealth agencies. The ...
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Coping with complex data streams: the OzFlux approach

A bird’s nest on OzFlux field infrastructure, on the Sturt Plains, Northern Territory – just one of the interesting challenges associated with field data collection. Photo ...
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