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550 ecosystem surveillance plots and counting

2017 sees TERN reach a milestone of 582 landscape monitoring plots sampled across our rangelands and tall forest ecosystems. Data on vegetation diversity and structure, ...
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Raincoat for a rainforest: Simulating drought in the Daintree

How might the world’s rainforests respond if droughts become more frequent in the future? This question is behind a unique experiment using one of TERN’s environmental ...
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People using TERN: Andrew Edwards

A research fellow from the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research is using TERN delivered data to map fire severity across the Top End for more ...
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TERN teams up with Google to deliver Australian science to millions worldwide

TERN has again teamed up with Google, this time to make detailed information on Australia’s soil and landscapes available through the Google Earth Engine. As ...
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Student challenge “brings text books to life”

In the latest example of TERN’s extensive educational and outreach activities, students are learning best-practice solutions to environmental problems and helping improve our understanding of ...
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New tools to improve state fire mapping

The South Australian Government have partnered with TERN to develop new techniques that improve state fire mapping, and understanding of fire location, extent and timing. ...
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Global efforts to understand drought sensitivity

Australian researchers are using TERN environmental monitoring systems to take part in a landmark global experiment that investigates the impact of drought on our ecosystems, ...
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Angry summers and ecosystem health

As Australia swelters through another hot summer, a team of researchers is using TERN data to assess how heat waves affect the energy balance, carbon ...
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Relief in sight: countrywide pollen monitoring and mapping for early warning

TERN’s collaborative networks and ecosystem data infrastructure have provided the platforms from which to establish the inaugural national pollen-monitoring network and a new, high-tech approach ...
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People using TERN: Ellen Miech

An honours student at the Australian National University has used TERN data to identify drivers of Proteaceae declines on Western Australia’s islands and where ongoing ...
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