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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At work at the OzFlux tower at the Chowilla site in South Australia …one of 23 flux towers around Australia and New Zealand   Unprecedented ...

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 ...