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Heat tips forest from CO₂ sink to source

New science using TERN finds Melaleuca forests—think tea trees and paperbarks—are more vulnerable to climate stresses than eucalypt forests. Storing >5% of Australia’s forest carbon, ...
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I spy: Enhanced camera network to track environmental change

TERN, together with another NCRIS-enabled infrastructure, the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, is significantly upgrading its nation-wide network of time-lapse cameras that monitor the timing of ...
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Counting carbon from burning wastelands to healthy peat swamp forest

Automated environmental monitoring data sensors have just been installed in a patch of Indonesian wetland, the size of Melbourne, to quantify the stocks and flows ...
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Winds of change: next-gen pollen mapping and forecasting

An innovative project is using TERN satellite data together with on-ground time-lapse cameras and pollen monitors to track grass pollen sources, their evolution, and impact ...
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Centre Spotlight: Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science

This month we visit James Cook University and shine some light on a centre where research and outreach are aiding the conservation and sustainable use ...
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Big data and online tools improve farms from the ground up

TERN-delivered soil and landscape data have been incorporated into a leading agricultural decision-support tool that’s helping farmers achieve more from their land and limited resources, ...
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Monitoring the world’s 3rd largest tropical rainforest

In an effort to highlight terrestrial ecosystem monitoring, research and management in the broader Oceania region, we bring you news—and a stunning collection of photos—on ...
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Integrating plot-based ecological data in Australia: a semantic approach

TERN is developing an innovative approach to integrate plot-based ecological data collected by TERN and multiple agencies from different jurisdictions. This is your chance to ...
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NEW! TERN-enabled research synthesis paper

A detailed synthesis on understanding and predicting Australian ecosystem responses to climate change and extreme variability has just been published in a new review of ...
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Copernicus’ Tower

How a research tower in the Snowy Mountains became crucial to the most ambitious Earth observation program to date. Another page is being written in ...
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