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Improving understanding of extreme coastal events

In January 2013, ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald and an associated monsoon trough passed over parts of Queensland and New South Wales, causing severe storms, flooding and ...
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Managing the land of bushfires: Australia’s twenty different “fire countries”

TERN’s fire experts are lighting the way in the geographical study of fire The pyrogeography synthesis group of TERN’s Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and ...
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Connecting cyclones and carbon emissions in our northern savannas

In April 2006 severe tropical cyclone Monica swept across northern Australia. In its travels it harmed 10 400 km2 of tropical savanna, killing or severely ...
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Ngadju kala: fire management in the Great Western Woodlands

TERN has partnered with CSIRO, Ngadju Conservation, Goldfields Land and Sea Council and WA Department of Parks and Wildlife to produce a new fire management report using TERN ...
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Hot on the trail of heatwaves

Just like this year, 2013 kicked off with heatwaves that started in Western Australia and swept eastwards across the continent, contributing to Australia’s hottest year ...
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The erratic greening of arid Australia

New insights from extreme years as flooding rains interrupt prolonged drought In comparison with drylands elsewhere, the unpredictability of rainfall in central Australia is globally ...
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Mike Grundy (CSIRO) and Markus Andas (Indonesian Centre for Agricultural Land Research and Development) discuss the attributes of the fertile soils of Cianjur region of West Java (Photo courtesy of Claire Harris, CSIRO).

TERN takes soil information products across the Timor, Tasman, Coral Sea and beyond.

Mike Grundy (CSIRO) and Markus Andas (Indonesian Centre for Agricultural Land Research and Development) discuss the attributes of the fertile soils of Cianjur region of ...
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Cassidy Rankin (at left) of the University of Alberta works with University of Canberra student Michael Hausch (at right) on the AusCover Sensor Network at OzFlux's Tumbarumba site.

Several fields of ecosystem science capitalise on OzFlux network

Cassidy Rankin (at left) of the University of Alberta works with University of Canberra student Michael Hausch (at right) on the AusCover Sensor Network at ...
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Call to action: long-term planning for Australian ecosystem science

As 2013 draws to a close, progress in developing the Ecosystem Science Long-Term Plan (ESLTP) has stepped up a notch with the release of an ...
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Collaborative ecology across the Tasman at EcoTas 2013

The Ecological Society of Australia’s (ESA) annual conference is a fixture in the ecosystem research community’s calendar each year. TERN itself has become a fixture ...
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