We’re always on the lookout for the latest research that has benefitted from access to TERN infrastructure. Here are some papers published in September 2026, that involve TERN data, collections, resources and/or expertise.
Guzinski, R., Nieto, H., Barrios, J. M., Ghariani, W., Gellens-Meulenberghs, F., De Pue, J., and Lacaze, R. (2026) Towards a global actual evapotranspiration product for the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 30, 5593–5646, doi: 10.5194/hess-30-5593-2026
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Ecosystem Processes
The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) produces a series of qualified global biogeophysical products on the status and evolution of the land surface. This paper describes CLMS’ recent addition of an actual evapotranspiration (ETa) product.
Thackway, T., Pulsford, I., Chapman, G. A., Freudenberger, D., Doherty, M., Frakes, I., Yand, X., Moore, L., Gormley, A. (2026) Assessing the transformation of the white box-white cypress prine grassy woodland in the Snowy River Valley, South-eastern Australia, from the 18th through to the 21st Centuries, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 148. Access article here.
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Data Services & Analytics
Examines the ecological transformation from its pre-European state of the endangered White Box–White Cypress Pine Grassy Woodland of the lower Snowy River Valley in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW.
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The results of elevational surveys for rainforest lizards along two routes in Lamington National Park in subtropical eastern Australia. The data show contrasting distributions closely associated with elevation and temperature, provide a baseline for detecting future changes in Australia’s subtropical montane rainforests.
Crosbie, R. S., Taylor, A. R., Castellazzi, P., Petheram, C. (2026) Comment on ‘ Tracking freshwater depletion in Northern Australia: a multi-satellite approach’ (Ndehedehe et al. 2025), Ecological Informatics 99, 104039 doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.104039
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Reappraising freshwater depletion claims in northern Australia, with a particular focus on the Cambrian Limestone Aquifer (CLA).
Ruiz de la Cuesta Vela, I., et al. (2026) Low-cost, energy-efficient sap flow system reveals multi-year transpiration dynamics in a subtropical mixed-species plantation, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 389 (2026) 111435 doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2026.111435
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Investigates a low-cost heat pulse method sensor system enables long-term sap flow monitoring. Results demonstrate that dense, low-cost, energy-efficient HPM networks can capture multi-species transpiration dynamics, support stand-scale ecohydrological analyses, and provide a practical pathway for investigating ecosystem water use and resilience in high-diversity forests.
Dannenberg, M. et al (2026) DrylANNd: twenty years of monthly, 0.05° gross primary production and evapotranspiration estimates for global drylands, Environ. Res.: Ecology 5 034501 doi: 10.1088/2752-664X/ae8f4f
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Presents two decades (2003–2022) of monthly, 0.05°-resolution gross primary production (GPP) and evapotranspiration (ET) estimates for global drylands using a new-and-improved version of their dryland artificial neural network (DrylANNd) approach.
Khanal, S., et al (2026) Drivers of Grassland Biodiversity: Disentangling the Soil-Biome Interaction Across Physiographic Regions in Nepal’s Protected Areas, Rangeland Ecology and Management 109, 62 – 72 doi: 10.1016/j.rama.2026.08.001
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Ecosystem Surveillance
Examines plant diversity, biomass, and soil characteristics along a physiographic gradient in Nepal, spanning protected areas (PAs) in the Himalayas, mid-hills, and low-altitude Terai regions. The results reveal that ecological drivers of grassland structure and functions are not uniform but shift substantially with elevation, underscoring the need for region-specific conservation strategies tailored to localized drivers within PAs.
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Evaluates four widely used SIF data sets—Continuous Solar-Induced Fluorescence (CSIF), Global OCO-2 SIF (GOSIF), SIF005, and OCO-005—across multiple biomes, climate regimes, and temporal scales by comparing them against tower-derived gross primary production (GPP), tower-observed SIF, and independent climate anomalies.
, , , , & (2026). Timescale dependence of environmental controls on actual evapotranspiration along climate and ecosystem gradients. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 131, e2025JD045749. doi: 10.1029/2025JD045749
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Uses long-term observations from a global network of ecosystem monitoring sites to explore how the link between evapotranspiration and environmental factors changes across different climates and vegetation types over timescales ranging from short to long.
Musso, R. G., et al (2026) Terrestrial laser scanning-based aboveground biomass estimation across forest compartments in Patagonian forests: a workflow integrating freely available tools. R. Soc. Open Sci. 1 September 2026; 13 (9): 261311. doi: 10.1098/rsos.261311
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This study documents and validates a reproducible workflow that integrates existing freely available tools for the estimation of Above Ground Biomass (AGB) using Terrestrial Laser Scanning across multiple forest compartments (stem, branches, canopy and understory) in Patagonian temperate forests.
Ren, J. et al. (2026) Foliar water uptake as a missing mechanism underlying land surface model underestimation of gross primary productivity in evergreen broadleaf forests, Advances in Climate Change Research, in press, doi: 10.1016/j.accre.2026.09.008
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Using the Common Land Model (CLM) they test whether foliar water uptake (FWU) can serve as an underrepresented canopy-water process in land surface models and thereby improve simulated carbon-water coupling.
