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Monitoring the success of rangelands management

NOTE: The AusPlots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual has been released and is now available for free download here There have already been over 550 downloads ...
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Aerial imagery used in down-to-earth farming decisions

Aerial and satellite mapping for environment monitoring is becoming so sophisticated that, with additional development by researchers and commercial mappers, it will soon be available ...
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Research at Warra supersite improves forestry policy

Research at the Warra supersite in Tasmania has led to improvements in harvesting methods for use in tall, wet eucalypt forests that also protect native ...
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Sustaining the Australian Alps

Australia’s alpine ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to changing patterns of climate, fire and land-use pressure in the coming century. Using environmental sensors to document ...
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Tracking the transformation of vegetated landscapes

Almost all of Australia’s vegetated landscapes have been affected by changes in land-use and land-management practices. The continent is now a diverse mosaic of fragmented ...
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Imagining a future: regional, self-determining, diverse, enduring

Much scientific research is being invested in understanding how species, habitats, bio acoustics, and agricultural industries are adapting to a changing climate. But this begs ...
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Working together to improve land-management outcomes

A number of TERN environment monitoring facilities are building research partnerships with the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), a research ...
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Evolution of Australia’s soil-carbon map

Soil variation across Australia as measured by near-infra red spectra (NIR) – an example of the TERN underpinnings for the new soil-carbon map. NIR is one of a ...
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Measuring diameter of old growth mountain ash

Standardising long-term monitoring of environmental carbon

Lachie McBurney measures the diameter of an old-growth mountain ash in the Victorian Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot Network [Photo courtesy of David Blair] As we move ...
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Experiment will show how forest responds to more carbon dioxide

A view over the forest canopy showing the cranes and partly built carbon-dioxide arrays where the experiment will take place Regardless of whether you think human ...
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