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TERN Surveillance Monitoring Program

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TERN Ecosystem Surveillance is a plot-based field monitoring platform that tracks the direction and magnitude of change in Australia’s environments. Information on soils and vegetation is collected according to standardized, widely endorsed and consistent protocols across all plots, and includes the collection of soil and vegetation samples for subsequent analysis. Data collected by TERN is stratified across the entire continent to ensure adequate coverage of major Australian ecosystems, and measures are repeated at least once a decade, with the aim to establish replicate plots throughout the ecosystem types existing within Australia’s Major Vegetation Groups (MVG’s). Additional plots located in key environmental transition zones will be re-measured every five years. TERN users include researchers, land managers and policy-makers who require access to terrestrial ecosystem attributes collected over time from continental scale to field sites at hundreds of representative locations. TERN provides model-ready data that enables users to detect and interpret changes in ecosystems. In addition, TERN curates The TERN Australia Soil and Herbarium Collection with over 150,000 vegetation and soil samples (and associated contextual environmental data) freely available to loan on request. TERN’s world-class surveillance monitoring infrastructure will support long-term ecological inventory, environmental monitoring, environmental prediction, reporting and assessment, and underpin decisions about our greatest environmental challenges. Occurrence records can be accessed through the Atlas of Living Australia.

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Title TERN Surveillance Monitoring Program
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/2d7399be-df3c-4948-b87c-1b55d6831a3f
Contact Point
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria
ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au
Reference Period 30/10/2010
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[114.0, -38.0], [156.2, -38.0], [156.2, -10.0], [114.0, -10.0], [114.0, -38.0]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "TERN Surveillance Monitoring Program". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/tern-surveillance-monitoring-program

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