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The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network , or TERN by its acronym, is a research network that enables coordinated work across private research centres and Australian government agencies. [1] TERN has also been described as "Australia’s terrestrial ecosystem observatory": it provides empirical data to Australian and foreign institutions. [2] As of 2021, TERN boasted that its infrastructure has been instrumental in the publication of over 1,000 academic articles. [3] NASA says it has used TERN data. [4]
At launch in 2009, its funding included $55 million from the Australian government and $4 million in Queensland government funding. The partners include the University of Queensland, the Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University, CSIRO , the Queensland Department of Environment & Resource Management, and the University of Adelaide, all of which direct TERN. [1]
As of 2021, TERN was funded by NCRIS, an Australian government initiative. [5] TERN itself funds research infrastructure and data collection. [6]
Infrastructure
TERN operates over 700 sites across Australia. [7] As of 2013, TERN had installed 20 flux towers. [8] The Daintree Rainforest Observatory (DRO), in Cape Tribulation, is monitored by TERN. [9]
TERN provides three ranges of infrastructure: environmental monitoring at continental scale, a large collection of research plots, and a more limited collection of intensively monitored sites. [10]
References
- 1 2 "UQ leads new era of ecosystem management" . University of Queensland . 19 May 2009. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021 . Retrieved 28 October 2021 .
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Daniel Bishton (5 December 2018).
"Completing the jigsaw"
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Spatial Source
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(TERN), Australia's terrestrial ecosystem observatory, provides the Australian and international earth observation communities with the high quality, on-the-ground data
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"Research Publications"
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Since its inception, TERN's infrastructure has enabled the publication of more than 1000 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles or books.
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"Ecostress - News"
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA to use TERN data in ECOSTRESS mission
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"About Australia's Land Ecosystem Observatory"
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TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, NCRIS.
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"About TERN"
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NCRS
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United States Department of Agriculture
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TERN is also funding new research infrastructure and collection systems
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Dyani Lewis (17 January 2020).
"Catastrophic Australian bushfires derail research"
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Nature
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A handful of the 700 TERN sites without permanent infrastructure [...] have also been burnt.
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Tom Arup (27 September 2013).
"Carbon cycle tracked as Victoria's forests breathe"
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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28 October
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In Australia, about 20 flux towers have been installed as part of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network - a program trying to draw a baseline picture of how landscapes cycle CO2
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Kimberley Vlasic (21 November 2014).
"James Cook University opens multi-million dollar Daintree Rainforest Observatory at Cape Tribulation"
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Cairns Post
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28 October
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The DRO forms part of the Rainforest Supersite monitored by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
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James Cleverly; Derek Eamus; Will Edwards; Mark Grant; Michael J Grundy; Alex Held (23 August 2019).
"TERN, Australia's land observatory: addressing the global challenge of forecasting ecosystem responses to climate variability and change"
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Environmental Research Letters
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10.1088/1748-9326/ab33cb
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TERN provides environmental RI at three scales of observation: (i) environmental monitoring using remote sensing techniques at a landscape and continental scale; (ii) a spatially extensive network of ecosystem monitoring plots; and (iii) intensely measured sites collecting detailed data