The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)

• A national collaboration of world-class researchers and infrastructure supporting the collection, storage, management and sharing of scientific data and knowledge.
• Consists of a coordinating office, and seven facilities, covering key ecosystem features and processes in Australia.
• Links ecosystem science and management through the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (ACEAS).
• Vital to the understanding and sustainable management of Australian ecosystems.

More information on TERN activities can be found at:

http://www.tern.org.au/Home/tabid/4752/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Latest TERN newsletter available here

Latest Ausplots update available here

AusPlots rangelands monitoring discussion paper

Earlier this year the reference group of TERN's combined facilities at Adelaide invited feedback from ESA members on the draft AusPlots methodology for long-term ecological monitoring of rangelands sites. Professor Carla Catterall is the ESA representative on the reference group, and the chair of ESA's TERN subcommittee (other ESA members are Prof Jann Williams and Dr Glenda Wardle).

Previously, a smaller group of members had been invited by ESA to comment on an earlier draft (December 2010) of this document.  Comments were compiled in February 2011, by which time further revisions of the original draft had been made by the AusPlots design group.

These papers are provided below for information. More details on the Ausplots process and other TERN activities will follow soon.

TERN Ausplots draft discussion paper

TERN Ausplots ESA comments on discussion paper

TERN Ausplots feedback on ESA response