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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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Working out how much carbon can be stored in the landscape

It makes sense for an industrialised country, with a relatively small population, a high annual rate of carbon dioxide emissions per person, and a very ...
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Study focuses on movement of carbon in estuaries

Coastal ecosystems are likely to be significant carbon sinks for Australia. We’re starting to come to grips with carbon dynamics on land, but what’s happening ...
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Big questions need big solutions: Australia’s carbon cycle

At work at the OzFlux tower at the Chowilla site in South Australia …one of 23 flux towers around Australia and New Zealand Unprecedented opportunities ...
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Detecting forest structure from space

Australia’s sheer size poses challenges for those conducting ecosystem monitoring programs – it is simply not feasible to have teams of people on the ground ...
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Savanna supersite to explain relationship between fire and carbon

Beautiful Litchfield National Park is being developed as a new site in the Australian Supersite Network. The Litchfield Savanna Supersite (LSS) represents high rainfall tropical ...
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Will the carbon economy be good for biodiversity?

Many countries have already adopted a range of social and economic mechanisms and incentives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions or improve carbon sequestration, and thereby reduce ...
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Assessing rangeland ecosystem trends across Australia

Rick Flitton and Emrys Leitch, members of the AusPlots Northern Territory Field Team, establishing a rangelands monitoring quadrat in the Finke Bioregion, Northern Territory. One ...
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Benefits of ‘soft’ research infrastructure for Australia’s ecosystem scientists

Efficient processing and management of the very large and complex datasets generated by ecosystem monitoring programs can be a real headache, especially for individual scientists ...
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Nuances of a network: a new structure for the Multi-Scale Plot Network

TERN’s Multi-Scale Plot Network (MSPN) Facility has recently confirmed a new operating structure designed to streamline workflows and ensure the network can focus maximum resources ...
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