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TERN is becoming an international model for success

International ecosystem research networks have been closely evaluating TERN infrastructure as recent collaborative information sharing exercises in China and Chile strengthen ties with partners from ...
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Lasers, drones, and tree climbers measuring Tassie’s World Heritage forests

Equipped with a mountain of high-tech reminiscent of science fiction flicks, scientists and volunteers have just spent a week working in the World Heritage Area ...
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Long-term research infrastructure facilitates groundbreaking rainforest study

Researchers using TERN’s national long-term research infrastructure have, for the first time, demonstrated scientists’ long-held suspicions that tropical forest diversity is driven by early life-cycle ...
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People using TERN: Jan Pisek

Image: Jan climbs the OzFlux tower at the Wombat node of the Victorian Dry Eucalypt SuperSite to measure the vertical structure of the forest (image courtesy of Zbynek Malenovsky) A ...
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How green is our grass? Improved measurements to aid fire management

Using TERN’s high tech infrastructure to supplement grassroots monitoring of fire danger and inform fire management decisions Grassland curing is the natural cycle of grass ...
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Critical infrastructure for National Environmental Science Programme

Late last year the Federal Government announced its $142.5 million National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) and the organisations that will lead research in the program’s ...
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Practical training in rangeland monitoring a success in the Northern Territory

TERN’s AusPlots facility has successfully completed another iteration of its field methods training course.  Current and next generation ecosystem science researchers and land managers from ...
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ACEAS working group wins Banksia Award

Congratulations to the ACEAS Indigenous bio-cultural knowledge group which recently won a 2014 Banksia Award in the category of Indigenous Leadership for Sustainability.  This award was gained for the work ...
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New research predicts collapse of mountain ash ecosystem

A recent study by researchers utilising decades of scientific environment monitoring from TERN’s Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) has discovered that the mountain ash ...
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TERN expands its regional international collaboration

TERN has partnered with the scientists planning a future Korean Ecological Observatory Network to share knowledge, expertise and experience and advance Australia’s standing in the ...
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