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It’s a truism that fire is a driver of ecosystem function, and indeed ecosystem evolution, in Australia. Yet it’s surprising how little we still understand ...

Using AusCover’s data infrastructure, a new research project is helping to improve our understanding of the environmental variables that drive fire in northern Australia.   ...

Citizen science in South Australia takes an exciting step forward this month with the launch of the TREND program’s mobile app. The program, Transects for ...

‘This is a significant step towards making ecosystem data more accessible to the ecosystem science community,’ said TERN Director, Prof Tim Clancy, as he announced ...

People can get data and information on the soil they are standing on, thanks to an app developed by several national research organisations. The app, ...

Researchers and managers from all corners of the continent converged on the Great Western Woodlands Supersite this month, on Credo Station approximately 70 km from ...

A southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus), one of the species of Australian mammal included in Nerissa’s work on species distribution models (Photo courtesy of Ray ...

The Persistent Green-Vegetation Fraction 2000–2010 across Australia, which has been developed by AusCover in collaboration with a range of state, territory and Commonwealth agencies. The ...

A bird’s nest on OzFlux field infrastructure, on the Sturt Plains, Northern Territory – just one of the interesting challenges associated with field data collection. Photo ...

The ecosystem science and management research cycle Associate Science Directors Stuart Phinn and Andy Lowe explain how TERN’s national ecosystem data infrastructure is delivering efficiency ...