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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.   ...
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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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Share and share alike: $1M funding brings SHaRED research data to scientist’s desktop

TERN’s Eco-informatics Facility is excited to receive close to $1M from the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) project to create a new eResearch tool ...
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TERN’s new Data Licensing Policy and Framework

Prof Tim Clancy, TERN Director, is pleased to announce the release of TERN’s Data Licensing Policy and Framework. This is a significant precursor to the ...
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The ASN is expanding

Staff taking part in an intensive field campaign at the new regional supersite: twelve people spent one week completing a full inventory of carbon stocks ...
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A new approach to assessing natural heritage

These maps are an output from the ACEAS workshop described above. Described as ‘turnover surfaces’ for the family Myobatrachidae, the plots indicate the rate of species (left) ...
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More than the sum of the parts: collaboration and synthesis in ecosystem science

Recently the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (ACEAS) has hosted Dr John Parker on a visit from Arizona State University. John studies the ...
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