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New ecosystem monitoring plots established to address biodiversity threats in WA’s Pilbara

The Pilbara Corridors project has established the first of its AusPlots ecosystem and environment monitoring sites in the Fortescue catchment, as part of a monitoring contribution to ...
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The impacts of fuel reduction burns on soil greenhouse gas exchange

Researchers using TERN’s national ecosystem and landscape monitoring infrastructure have, for the first time, found that repeated fuel reduction burns in temperate forests have little ...
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TERN announced as first Australian DataONE node

TERN has partnered with the US’s DataONE to expand the discoverability of our data. TERN datasets can now be accessed using DataONE’s OneMercury search tool, ...
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Plumbing the carbon cycle in northern Australia’s tropical savannas

Did you know that the groundwater in northern Australia can be highly acidic, compared to that of the southern part of our continent? What is ...
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TERN climate and land surface data helps identify climate refugia and map bushfires, their impacts and future hazards

What are climate changes likely to mean for different forms of land use in different areas? And what are the best ways to conserve species ...
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TERN welcomes the new Ecosystem Science Council

Australia’s inaugural Ecosystem Science Council was formed in March this year. Their mission? To bring to life Foundations for the future, the collective vision articulated ...
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Funding boost for TERN supported biomass and carbon measurement project

International funding has just been secured for the creation of a new international network that will utilize infrastructure, collaborations and expertise developed through TERN’s AusCover ...
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Ecologically appropriate and economically viable: how long-term research is transforming fire management in the Top End

Extreme fire weather has increased in many parts of Australia over the last three decades, and projections for the future indicate that the likelihood of extreme ...
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Biodiversity and environmental change: monitoring, challenges and direction

A landmark book publication brings together for the first time decades of environment monitoring work from across the entire country, documenting the changes, identifying the drivers ...
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People using TERN: Brendan Lepschi

The Curator of the Australian National Herbarium is using plant specimens collected via TERN AusPlots’ national environmental monitoring to supplement and compliment Australia’s biological collections—key ...
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